Новости за 23.11.2015

Turnbull and terrorism. Given Q&A has spent much of the year debating, dividing and sometimes messing around in the shadow of these two subjects, it was fitting that on Monday night it ended its 2015 run dominated by them.

Pfizer on Monday said it would buy Botox maker Allergan in a record-breaking deal worth $US160 billion ($225.21 billion), designed to cut the company's US tax bill by moving its headquarters to Ireland.

Copper and nickel tumbled to multi-year lows overnight in another commodities selloff sparked by growing worries over China's economic fate and a strengthening US dollar.

Veteran ABC journalist Kerry O'Brien has bid his audience farewell and promised that he would not be retiring from journalism, but move "onto other things".

When the father of a survivor of the Paris attacks questions the security of Australia's refugee intake his words carry weight. The response for one panelist carried the heavy load of a country that has borne the brunt of Europe's refugee crisis.

And which disgruntled backbencher is undermining the government today? Your news of the day, reduced to a snarky rant.

Make time for some healthy doses of childhood boredom between the sports coaching, private tutoring and drama classes.

"Political" means "populist" when it comes to blocking the sale of assets to foreign buyers.

Maybe a text exchange with Tiger Woods. Or a few messages from a music megastar. They're about the only times Jordan Spieth takes time to ponder how far - and more importantly how fast - the world no.1 with a bullet has come.

Indian coal giant Adani misled a native title tribunal by making false claims about the economic benefits of its planned $16.5 billion Carmichael mine, an indigenous group says.

Somewhere, in a courtroom in the Bahamas over the weekend, former billionaire media baron Sir Tony O'Reilly went bust.

British Prime Minister David Cameron says he's convinced the UK should carry out military air strikes alongside France and other partners in Syria.

Belgium has detained five more people following raids on Monday morning in the Brussels and Liege regions as it searches for the country's links to the Paris attacks.

There are now just three northern white rhinos left in the world. These three.

Australia's largest holiday park operator, Discovery Parks has inched ahead as the potential victor in its long-running $146 million takeover of rival Apen Parks Property Fund.

Fracking can be safely carried out near a renowned tourist drawcard in Australia's red centre and some Aboriginal people support the project for the royalties it will bring, according to a mining company chief behind the controversial bid.

A review of Victoria's drug laws will examine the use of sniffer dogs at events and the potential for drug-testing facilities at festivals to determine the purity of illicit substances.

Michelle Payne's feet have hardly touched the ground since she made history by becomning the first woman to ride the winner of the Melbourne Cup.

The Turnbull government should publish evidence justifying its planned changes to the extended Medicare safety net to hose down fears they will affect vulnerable patients, a government-dominated Senate committee says.

The Church of England is threatening legal action over the rejection of a one-minute film it wanted to run before showings of the new Star Wars film.

Deanne and Spiro Coucouvinis could never have prepared themselves for what was to come from two government officials they served in their cafe.

A male passenger on a Virgin Australia flight to Brisbane was escorted off the flight by the Australian Federal Police.

I searched for the golden nugget in the core of Alex Mally's article, but was left empty handed  ("Everyone wants to pay less tax", November 23).

Forget the GST – it's tackling the burgeoning problem of superannuation that will show whether the Treasurer is serious about fixing tax.

Phil Cleary is a long-time activist in the campaign to stop violence against women; his sister was killed by her former partner in 1987.