Новости за 23.07.2015

When I spoke to Adam Brookman in May, I asked him if he anticipated being charged or jailed over his time in Syria and stint working with the Islamic State.

The US dollar's rally is slowing as traders look to a Federal Reserve meeting next week for a new catalyst to buy the greenback.

The first alleged member of the Islamic State to return to Australia was being escorted by authorities into Sydney on Friday after giving himself up to Australian Federal Police in Turkey.

​Vale boosted iron-ore production last quarter to the second-highest ever for the company, exceeding analyst estimates.

Last year, one of footballer Jarryd Hayne's third-party sponsors wanted to know why he was being asked to pay the star player's money into a mysterious company called Abdullah Pty Ltd.

By the end of 2013, Roy Spagnolo was in a bit of a pickle. He'd failed in his attempt to wrest back control of his beloved Eels from usurpers and more of his property development businesses had followed a familiar path of going down the gurgler, owing the Tax Office millions.

The murky world of secret payments to rugby league players to circumvent the salary cap is haunting the Parramatta Eels.

A 15-year-old boy from the north-west of England has pleaded guilty to inciting a terrorist attack on police officers at an Anzac Day parade in Melbourne.

The list of potential buyers ready to swoop on the $400 million David Jones property portfolio is long and varied from local cashed-up super funds, REITs to overseas residential developers, looking to build on the airspace of the sites.

Sexual predators are using crowded trams and trains to "hone their skills" as offenders, as an increasing number of passengers report attacks while travelling on public transport in Melbourne.

Just how good is JT? His standing in the game should not be judged by how far the Cowboys go this year.

Australia's mining and finance giants are being urged to publish more information about the way they support the mental health of their staff, with a new report finding these industries lag overseas peers.

Bill Shorten's handling of Labor's controversial decision to adopt Tony Abbott's policy to turn back asylum seeker boats has drawn fire from his 2013 leadership rival, Anthony Albanese.

Roger Pocock loves worms. Not your garden variety worms, mind. His worms are cooler. Measuring no longer than a millimetre, these worms are transparent so you can see the brain at work and they grow from a single cell to an adult in three days.

The ABC will consider redress for franchisees hit by the sudden closure of the broadcasters's retail network, which includes 78 franchisee-run ABC Centres.

Three days after he woke up and saw himself on the front page of the paper, Harley Bennell thought he had played his last game for Gold Coast.

The move is on for the Northern Territory to become Australia's seventh state.

Barely a few months ago the iconic relationship between SBS and football looked set to come to an end - but the network now seems increasingly likely to be broadcasting A-League matches next season.

Cricket Australia is considering using a pink ball for the first time in the Prime Minister's XI game at Manuka Oval.

Somewhere in the thousands of towering apartment blocks that ring the Russian capital, whistleblower Edward Snowden remains in hiding two years after outraging US intelligence agencies with revelations of their snooping into the private communications of millions of ordinary citizens.

Chris Sandow's rollercoaster four year stint at Parramatta is over

Our obsession with building mini-castles behind picket fences has turned us into a vacuous and inward-looking society. Or perhaps we always were?

Is it ever OK for a business owner or strange adult to take over the discipline of a young child or yell at a baby, even one who is causing a scene? No.

Australian advocates for a group of Vietnamese asylum seekers detected off the coast of West Australian this week believe they are being held on HMAS Choules, the vessel used in April to hand back another group of refugees from Vietnam.

Multiple bomb blasts at two bus stations in the northern Nigerian city of Gombe on Wednesday killed at least 37 people, with 105 others injured, Red Cross official says.