Новости за 13.08.2018

The Australian mining industry has the nation's greatest proportion of businesses that are foreign-owned.

A Californian court finding that a Monsanto weedkiller caused cancer in a school groundskeeper sent shares in the Australian maker of a similar product, Nufarm, tumbling to a more than two-year low on Monday.

Australia's "insidious" drought is devastating farmers but bringing out the generous best in Australians, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says.

Three people have died and nearly 60,000 have been displaced by widespread floods in the Philippine capital and northern provinces over the weekend, the national disaster relief agency says.

ALL BLACKS coach Steve Hansen has rejected suggestions from former players that the team’s famous pre-match haka has been devalued by overuse.

JOCKEY Blake Shinn has been taken to hospital with neck soreness and probable concussion after a fall in a heat of the Randwick barrier trials.

IF THERE was an award for the most confusing parking sign in Australia, this one in Sydney would be difficult to beat.

Domain executive chairman Nick Falloon is excited about the potential for the property listings group and new majority owner, Nine Entertainment, to capitalise on the Australian public's property obsession.

THE body of a 67-year-old woman has been discovered inside a Sydney unit along with an injured 67-year-old man.

August 13, 2018. Minister for Human Services, Michael Keenan speaks to the media about the government's election prospects in respect of the latest polls showing the government is losing support. "I'm 100% confident that Malcolm Turnbull will take us to the next election,"Mr Keenan said. He also confirmed the government is still committed to implementing company tax legislation. (AAP Video/Marc Tewksbury)

Melbourne's South Sudanese community is fed up with being "demonised" by "racist" political commentary and media coverage over youth crime.

News.com.au has won a top gong at one of Australia’s most prestigious journalism awards.

Police have located two guns, drugs and ammunition following the execution of a search warrant on an industrial shed on the southern end of the Gold Coast.

DAVE Taylor’s rugby league club has slammed the Channel 9 Sunday Footy Show after a segment where Erin Molan and co made fun of the former NRL star’s weight.

Mayors from across Melbourne have come together to stand in solidarity with African community leaders. The groups have united to battle the perception of a 'Sudanese gang crisis' across the city. The eight Mayors claim the media has misrepresented the issue, arguing the state's overall youth crime has seen a downturn. Image: Twitter / @welcome2aussie

A boy, who was a sole survivor of a plane crash in Indonesia’s Papua province that killed eight people, was evacuated from Menuk Mountain on Sunday, August 12. “The survivor is a 12-year-old child named Jumaidi,” police spokesman Ahmad Mustofa Kamal told BBC News Indonesia. Seven passengers and two pilots were on board the Dimonim Air charter flight from Tanahmerah to Oksibil on Saturday afternoon, August 11, at around 3 pm. The air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane shortly before it was expected to land. Читать дальше...

TEMPERATURES have plunged to as low as -9C in parts of the country this morning and snow has fallen as winter continues to bite. Suburban areas of Sydney didn’t escape the freezing conditions, also plunging into minus figures.

Video obtained Monday, August 13, 2018 of former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman during an interview on the NBC show Meet The Press. In the interview she talks about a meeting with White House chief of staff John Kelly, and says he made threats while asking her to leave the White House. "If I didn't have these recordings, no one in America would believe me," she said. (AAP VIDEO/Supplied/NBC News)(NO ARCHIVING AAP VIDEO BEYOND 48 HOURS)

A large shelf cloud loomed over Fredericksburg, Virginia, on August 12, as the National Weather Service warned of storms producing lightning, damaging winds and heavy rainfall. The NWS issued a flash flood watch for parts of central and northern Virginia, in effect until 11 pm on Sunday. Credit: Aaron Swiggett via Storyful

August 13, 2018. Minister for Human Services, Michael Keenan announces a program for recruiting ex-defence force personnel to help with cyber security at the Department of Human Services. "We know that veterans make incredibly good employees.. and this program is leading from the front to work with us on cyber security..This is a system that distributes $175 billion a year..Unfortunately it is subject to a whole series of malicious actors that would like to get their hands on this information". Mr Keenan said. Читать дальше...

PENRITH centre Dean Whare claims Anthony Griffin’s axing as coach has made things clearer as players had already seen successor Cameron Ciraldo taking over more this year.

THE “stop shagging men” controversy flared again in the Senate today with Liberal Democrat David Leyonhjelm “proudly” declining to apologise.

IVAN Cleary insists he’s committed to the Tigers, so where does that leave the Penrith Panthers in their quest for a new coach?

WAYNE Bennett is reportedly searching for a new NRL club to coach — and is looking to break his Broncos contract one season early.

RAFAEL Nadal claimed a record extending 33rd ATP Masters 1000 title with victory over birthday boy Stefanos Tsitsipas in the Canadian Open final.