A BOUNCER'S foot was almost cut off in a savage machete attack outside a nightclub.

A TRAFFIC accident in Melbourne has left two cars and a house badly damaged and a driver in hospital.

HOMOCIDE detectives are investigating the death of a man who is believed to have complained to his neighbours about making too much noise late last night.

VIRTUALLY a month's worth of rain has been dumped on Melbourne in about 17 hours over the weekend after a hot and dry November.

HOMICIDE squad police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found in the front yard of a house in Melbourne.

A THREE-car collision southwest of Melbourne has left a woman in hospital with serious injuries.

CONCERNS are growing for the welfare of a brumby hunter last seen chasing a stallion in Victoria's high plains.

TWIN Krishna has woken from her medically induced coma and blown her guardian a long-awaited raspberry.

THE search for a torpedoed World War II hospital ship in Queensland waters will start next month.

The search for a man missing since going for a swim on the Gold Coast will resume tomorrow.

EMERGENCY services have contained a grass fire and prevented three properties from burning in the Sunshine Coast hinterland.

GOLD Coast police outsmarted a crashed motorist who tried to make a swim for it on Sunday.

THE Queensland Government has defended paying $440,000 and more in salaries to Queensland Education bureaucrats at the same time it had a bitter pay dispute with teachers.

HER affair with Russell Crowe ended her marriage, now Meg Ryan reportedly has another Aussie.

HIS crowning was met by fireworks and screams from the Australian Idol crowd, but Stan Walker's family chose a traditional way to hail their golden boy.

POLICE have praised the behaviour of schoolies despite 30 arrests overnight.

JUST weeks after she pumped up her breasts, the singer is looking to go back under the knife.

TENS of thousands of schoolies have descended on Surfers Paradise, kicking off a week of celebrations on the Gold Coast.

A FLU-ridden Eddie Vedder need not worry too much about delivering on a promise to learn to lip sync.

THE biggest party night of the annual Schoolies celebrations is under way on the Gold Coast, with police expecting around 25,000 teenagers to pack into the Schoolies Hub on Surfers Paradise beach until the early hours of tomorrow morning.