Новости за 24.06.2015

Taylor Swift's letter to Apple Music inspired a change in policy, and now a charge of indie labels signing up to the streaming service.

Financial planners could lose more than $225 million a year in revenue by 2018 as a result of sweeping changes proposed by the beleaguered life insurance industry, as it battles a spate of profit falls and complaints about bad advice.

Police say three women have accused a Logan area masseur of sexually assaulting them at his home this year and they believe there could be more victims yet to come forward.

Local police, several county sheriffs' offices and state investigators have banded together to solve a spiralling murder mystery.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott is facing a push from inside the Liberal Party to prevent Australia signing up to any binding emissions reduction targets at the upcoming Paris climate talks.

The husband of a Sydney high school teacher has admitted to a corruption inquiry he gave her a "fake name" to use in dealings with a NSW government department as part of an alleged $1 million scam.

It's crunch time for James Packer and the Melco Crown joint venture in Macau. Its new property Studio City - a Hollywood-themed casino which will have the world's first figure of eight ferris wheel and a virtual reality Batman ride - was slated for an opening around October.

​International creditors demanded politically sensitive changes to Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' tax and reform proposals on Wednesday, adding fresh uncertainty to talks aimed at unlocking aid to avert a debt default next week.

For many people, finding a new home is a lengthy, costly and exhausting process, but for people living with a disability the search is even more challenging.

Woolworths and Coles could soon be facing competition from an unlikely source, the South African owner of upmarket department store chain David Jones.

What can you do to ensure your team is in tip top condition?

It's an incident that would unnerve the most steely among us. Two 17-year-old Wagga Wagga girls were sitting in a car on Beauty Point Avenue in failing light when a mysterious figure drove up beside them.

President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced a more coordinated US response to help rescue Americans held hostage by terrorists and acknowledged the government had sometimes let the families down.

Sitting in his surgical gown inside a large medical suite a man prepared for his colonoscopy by pressing record on his smartphone, to capture the instructions his doctor would give him after the procedure.

Uber is helping to fill the state coffers, with drivers for the ride-sharing service fined more than $1.7 million in the past 12 months.

The Queen might have to move out of Buckingham Palace under plans being considered to allow builders to carry out millions of pounds of repairs to the crumbling building.

The construction of a new rail line under Swanston Street is set to be completed without ripping up the entire street - in stark contrast to claims by former premier Denis Napthine that the project would divide Melbourne's CBD "worse than the Berlin wall".

Budapest says had merely requests a period of grace from fellow EU member states to help deal with the tens of thousands of refugees arriving in the country.

Local investors face a bit of a dilemma as Greece prepares for crunch talks about its debt crisis.

Australia's horror draw at the World Cup continues after the Matildas were pitted against reigning world champions Japan in the quarter-finals but, according to their coach and the squad, they wouldn't have it any other way.

Hundreds of millions of dollars of government funding aimed at building mobile towers across rural Australia will be a boon for National Party MPs and Senators.

Parramatta chairman Steve Sharp has issued an apology to long-suffering Eels fans disillusioned by the Kieran Foran contract debacle and vows Brad Arthur will remain the head coach for the long haul.

In the strongest sign Kieran Foran won't be at Parramatta next season, his manager has asked the NRL for a salary cap exemption if he walks away from the Eels.

About 40 people have been killed by suspected Boko Haram militants who torched houses and shot people as they fled in two villages in north-east Nigeria, witnesses say.