A WOMAN has died in a head-on collision between her car and a utility truck which may have been driving the wrong way on Perth's main freeway.

With the 2008 Motocross / Supercross season fast approaching, the New South Wales (NSW) Yamaha Junior Development team, which consists of four riders including Luke Styke, Josh Readman, Corey James...

After months of talks, Shane Diener is has now officially signed with Kawasaki.It's taken some time for the right people to take notice but now with the full backing of Kawasaki, Diener wil...

POLICE fear a suspected live submarine flare which washed up on a central Queensland beach last week may have been picked up by a member of the public.

CALM weather has temporarily helped bring bushfires on South Australia's Kangaroo Island under control but hot, windy weather is tipped later this week.

A PREGNANT woman was struck in the stomach and two men assaulted in a violent attack in Brisbane's south yesterday.

FOUR teenagers were locked in a three kilometre race at up to 160kmh when they died in a fiery crash on the Westgate Freeway in Melbourne.

THE Netherlands wants to redraw the map of Europe - literally.

IMMIGRATION authorities have finally rumbled Britain's most famous illegal resident. At a time of heightened sensitivity to immigration, the refugee background of Paddington Bear has persuaded his creator, Michael Bond, to write his first novel about him for 29 years.

A MAN is in a critical condition after being stabbed multiple times in Brisbane's west.

THE high cost of debt has forced energy distributor SP AusNet to scrap a plan to buy former Alinta gas and electricity transmission assets from its parent Singapore Power.

THE NSW Government's $15 billion electricity asset sale is expected to trigger a feeding frenzy at the big end of town, which has been eyeing the tens of millions of dollars in potential fees.

FORMER media mogul Conrad Black has been sentenced to six and a half years in prison for obstructing justice and defrauding shareholders.

UBS announced a $US10 billion ($11.3bn) loss and an emergency injection of funds that make it the biggest subprime casualty to date among European banks.

THE Nationals' new deputy leader Nigel Scullion was once seen stripped to his underpants and handcuffed to a pole in a sleazy nightclub in St. Petersburg, Russia.

A 21-YEAR-OLD woman has been stabbed by her estranged husband outside her workplace in Melbourne's east early this morning.

POLICE are hunting a brazen gunman who fired several shots at a group of youths in Geelong, south of Melbourne, overnight.

THE giant Blackstone private equity group was yesterday reported to be planning a counterbid to BHP Billiton's proposed takeover of Rio Tinto.

THE debate over the likelihood of a Chinese bank taking a strategic interest in a Big Four lender has intensified, with investment bank UBS concluding that the purchase of a 10-15 per cent stake in ANZ is the most likely

WOODSIDE has lost a Federal Court appeal against a tax office ruling that it is not entitled to claim more than $500 million in hedge loss transactions on the Laminaria/Corallina oil fields in the Timor Sea.