Pilot killed in Qld plane crash

A 52-YEAR-OLD man has died in a light plane crash in southeast Queensland. The P51 Mustang replica came down near the Emu Gully airstrip near Helidon, east of Toowoomba, on Saturday morning. Police believe the vintage aircraft had only just...

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Hunger strike on Nauru continues

TEN asylum seekers on hunger strike on Nauru remain in the care of medics as their protest continues. About 300 detainees are refusing food in the protest, which started on Thursday morning. A total of 25 have now been treated at the medical...

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Insurgents shoot dead 3 soldiers in Iraq

IRAQI authorities say insurgents have gunned down three soldiers at a checkpoint near the country's capital. Police said the early Saturday shooting took place in Taji, 20 kilometers north of Baghdad, and two other soldiers were wounded. Medics...

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Seven kidnapped sailors freed in Nigeria

KIDNAPPERS have freed six Russian sailors and an Estonian who had been abducted from a ship off Nigeria's southern delta, a French oil and gas services company says. Paris-based Bourbon SA said in a statement that the sailors were in good health...

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China tightens security ahead of congress

DON'T roll down the taxi windows. Don't buy a remote-controlled plane without a police chief's permission. And don't release your pigeons. Beijing is tightening security as its all-important Communist Party congress approaches, and some of the...

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Aust beef shipment stuck on Indon dock

A CONSIGNMENT of Australian beef is stuck on an Indonesian dock because of anomalies with import documents in the latest problem to hit Australia's beef trade with Indonesia. A spokesman for the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry...

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US air travel resumes after Sandy

SUPERSTORM Sandy grounded more than 18,000 flights across the US northeast and the globe, and it will take days before travel gets back to normal. More than 7000 flights were cancelled on Tuesday alone, according to the flight-tracking service...

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Cyclone barrels towards south Indian coast

SCHOOLS and ports have shut down in southeast India as a cyclone heads towards the coast, with forecasters predicting it could make a direct hit on Chennai later in the day. Cyclone Nilam was likely to do extensive damage to thatched roofs and...

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Stairs collapse under kids on Halloween

The front stairs of a house at Hawthorne collapsed during Halloween trick-or-treating. Picture: Marc Robertson Source: The Courier-Mail The front stairs of a house at Hawthorne that collapsed during Halloween trick-or-treating. Picture:...

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South Africa police and miners clash again

POLICE in South Africa have fired rubber bullets, tear gas and stun grenades in clashes with Anglo American Platinum miners, as a deadline passed for 12,000 sacked workers to reclaim their jobs. At least 1000 miners defied an ultimatum to return...

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Asian markets close mixed

ASIAN stock markets have closed mixed but Tokyo closed lower after the Bank of Japan (BoJ) announced monetary easing that was only slightly bigger than market forecasts and cut its growth outlook. With US markets closed because of Hurricane Sandy,...

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Unions win injunction against QBuild cuts

FOUR unions have won an injunction against Queensland government moves to begin dismissing more than 300 QBuild workers. Workers with the government's maintenance company were told on Tuesday morning they would have one-on-one sessions with...

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Concerns over linking carbon schemes

LINKING the carbon price to overseas markets could see Europe setting the rate of Australia's carbon tax, a parliamentary inquiry has heard. The coalition has also raised doubts about the integrity of the European Union's emissions trading scheme...

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Asian markets mostly lower

ASIAN markets are mostly lower as better-than-expected US growth data failed to offset concerns over corporate earnings. Trading was also nervous at the start of a crucial week that will see a Bank of Japan policy meeting, the release of US jobs...

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Camilla takes time out before tour

AHEAD of a hectic tour of Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, Prince Charles's wife Camilla is taking time out at a holistic health centre in India, a British newspaper reports. The Duchess of Cornwall arrived in Bangalore at the weekend...

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Tsunami hits Hawaii after Canada quake

THE first waves of a tsunami hitting Hawaii on Saturday night (Sunday Australian time) were smaller than expected nearly three hours after evacuations were ordered for coastal areas threatened after a powerful earthquake off the coast of Canada. ...

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Qld footballers await Hawaii tsunami

MEMBERS of a Queensland indigenous rugby league team are holed up in an Hawaiian evacuation centre awaiting updates of an approaching tsunami. Two of Arthur Beetson's sons are with the team at Kaiser High School, on the island of Oahu, where they've...

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British actor's sons die in HK fire

TWO young sons of a British actor living in Hong Kong have been killed when fire tore through their home. Emergency services rushed to the home of Simon Watkiss, who has appeared in a handful of Hong Kong-made films, when a fire broke out on...

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