THE share market closed higher, rebounding from two-month lows buoyed by a more optimistic assessment of the economy by the central bank.

NEWS that US swine flu vaccines, meant to be prioritised for the nation's most vulnerable, are being distributed to Wall Street firms such as Goldman Sachs has sparked uproar.

A PLANNED strike by Telstra workers today has been temporarily called off by the telecommunications union.

FORTUNE magazine has crowned Apple top dog Steve Jobs "CEO of the Decade" in its newest edition.

HIGHER taxes for the rich and cutbacks to lucrative superannuation benefits have been flagged by the Rudd Government as part of a 10-year reform agenda.

RESERVE Bank governor Glenn Stevens says Australia is already on the road to recovery.

TELSTRA chairman Catherine Livingstone yesterday was being "tough" in negotiations with the Rudd Government over its plans to break up the company.

PETER Costello has found himself a full time job with a newly-established corporate advisory firm.

WEST Australian Newspapers says circulation of its flagship newspaper is on the rise but not because of discounting its price.

BANK of Queensland expects to grow its business faster than its rivals to become a viable alternative to the major lenders.

BAGS of old clothes, boxes of books and furniture are typical Salvation Army donations, so volunteers were shocked when they found one donation stuffed with a fortune.

Fed children rat poison Then smothered to deathFour years' jail for manslaughter

DAY leave has been shut down at Thomas Embling Hospital following the stabbing deaths of two inmates.

THREE teenagers charged with raping and threatening to kill two men are at risk of fleeing to Lebanon, a court has heard.

A PSYCHIATRIC inmate is on suicide watch after being charged with the stabbing murders of two fellow inmates in a low-security unit of their secure Melbourne hospital.

A MAN accused of killing two people at a psychiatric facility has appeared in court.

POLICE have praised an Australia Post worker who handed in a parcel containing $100,000 she found behind a post office in Melbourne's south-east.

VICTORIANS were the "envy" of other Australians and Melbourne was the most liveable capital city in Australia by a "long, long way", Premier John Brumby said.

A WOMAN who stabbed her former lover's bull terrier 23 times has been sentenced to three years' jail.