Comedian Mel Smith dies in London

Rudd to export PNG boat plan KEVIN Rudd will seek to export the Papua New Guinea asylum seeker deal to other Pacific nations if any are willing to participate. Meet the Julia I know and love JULIA Gillard's communications director John...

22.24 | 0 komentar | Read More

Four militants killed in Algeria

FOUR armed Islamic extremists have been killed in a shootout with soldiers southeast of the Algerian capital, authorities say. A security service statement on Saturday said the fighting occurred overnight in Sour El Ghozlane, 120km from Algiers....

22.24 | 0 komentar | Read More

$40,000 gold prize to those who enrol

ACTIVIST group GetUp! will give away $40,000 in gold in a bid to encourage people to enrol to vote in the upcoming federal election. GetUp! National Director Sam McLean said 1.4 million people eligible to vote weren't on the electoral role,...

22.24 | 0 komentar | Read More

Pioneering journalist Helen Thomas dies

HELEN Thomas, a long-time White House correspondent and a pioneer for women in journalism, has died aged 92. A friend, Muriel Dobbin, says Thomas died at her apartment in Washington on Saturday morning. Dobbin says Thomas had been ill for a...

22.24 | 0 komentar | Read More

Comedian Mel Smith dies in London

BRITISH comedian Mel Smith, known for the TV series Alas Smith and Jones and Not the Nine O'Clock News, has died from a heart attack at his home in northwest London, his agent Michael Foster says. In a statement to the Press Association on Saturday...

22.24 | 0 komentar | Read More

G20 sets growth and jobs priorities

THE G20 has agreed to make boosting growth and jobs, rather than deficit reduction, the short-term priority for the global economy as it battles to consolidate a "fragile and uneven" recovery. Finance chiefs from the G20 group of advanced and...

22.24 | 0 komentar | Read More

Online series 'House of Cards' makes Emmy

NETFLIX'S "House of Cards" has made Emmy history with a top drama series nomination, the first time that television's top awards have recognized a program delivered online as equal in quality to the best that TV has to offer. The nomination, one...

22.25 | 0 komentar | Read More

Second Chevron manager jailed in Indonesia

AN Indonesian anti-corruption court has jailed a second employee of the local subsidiary of US energy giant Chevron Corporation, in a case that has alarmed foreign investors. The two Indonesian employees were each jailed for two years over a project...

22.25 | 0 komentar | Read More

Queries over Indonesia's Nazi-themed cafe

AUTHORITIES in central Indonesia say they plan to ask a restaurant owner to explain his reasons for opening a Nazi-themed cafe that has sparked controversy in the world's most populous Muslim country. Soldatenkaffee includes a wall of Nazi-related...

22.25 | 0 komentar | Read More

Campion's Top of the Lake gets Emmys nod

THE ABC wasn't keen on American actress Elisabeth Moss playing an Aussie in Jane Campion's TV mini-series Top of the Lake, but Emmy voters don't care. Moss was nominated on Thursday for two Emmys - her role in the New Zealand-shot Top of the...

22.25 | 0 komentar | Read More

Dell postpones vote on go-private plan

DELL has postponed a shareholder vote on its $US24.4 billion ($A26.5 billion) go-private plan led by founder Michael Dell, amid reports that several major investors opposed the deal. A Dell statement said the shareholder meeting on the plan,...

22.25 | 0 komentar | Read More

Britain to review cyber-security agreement

THE British government is looking again at how it safeguards its telecommunications networks from feared security risks posed Chinese giant Huawei. Britain, the US and Australia have all raised concerns that Huawei's alleged ties to the Chinese...

22.25 | 0 komentar | Read More