Новости за 08.05.2017

How gamblers - and clubs - get around ATM cap and firefighters' overtime blows out.

A former Nomura Holdings bond trader said he was trained to lie to customers shortly after coming to the company.

As the International Olympic Committee embarks this week on tours of the two cities competing to host the 2024 Olympics, there's growing sentiment that a consolation prize will be looming. To the victor: The 2024 Summer Games. And to the runner-cup: Wait four years and host the 2028 Olympics.

Peter Sterling has called for tougher penalties for players caught using cocaine and other drugs, saying the punishments were "not commensurate with the damage it does to our game".

A man has been charged with two fraud offences involving the alleged fraud of almost $1.7 million.

Before West Texas Intermediate crude nosedived on Thursday, money managers slashed bets on rising prices by 20 per cent.

The euro fell from six-month highs against the US dollar overnight after Emmanuel Macron's French election victory.

​Copper slid to a four-month low overnight after data showed a drop in imports into China, the world's biggest consumer.

Iron ore's attempt at a rebound lasted just a few short hours as investor concern over robust supplies returned.

An Afghan-born man charged with setting off bombs in New York and New Jersey will be tried in New York after a federal judge rejected his lawyers' argument that he could not get a fair trial in the city where he is accused of injuring 30 people.

Some of the Chibok schoolgirls abducted three years ago by Islamist Boko Haram militants refused to be part of a group of 82 girls freed at the weekend, a mediator involved in the release said on Monday.

Obama warned Trump against hiring Flynn as national security adviser, official confirms.

A man with Australian identity documents has been discovered dead in a residence in the seaside Bali precinct of Sanur.

On the Thursday evening before Easter, photographers staking out Palm Beach International Airport in Florida awaiting President Donald Trump were surprised to see not one, but two Air Force planes arriving within minutes of each other.

Rafael Nadal has asked to begin his participation in the Madrid Open a day later than planned due to an ear infection, meaning he will face Italian Fabio Fognini on Wednesday.

The Turnbull government has denounced Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs that left has thousands dead, declaring Canberra is "deeply concerned" about reports of extrajudicial killings.

Hugh Jackman has missed out on a best actor gong at the MTV Movie and TV Awards but he didn't leave the awards ceremony empty handed.

Emma Watson became the first person to win the MTV Movie and TV Awards' new gender-neutral best actor award Sunday night for her performance as Belle in Beauty and the Beast. The awards show also added a gender-less best actor category for television.

British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party has opened up a 22-point lead over the opposition Labour Party ahead of a June 8 national election, an ICM opinion poll for the Guardian newspaper showed on Monday.

The board of Fairfax Media is widely expected to reject private equity group suitor TPG amid a lack of shareholder support for the $2.2 billion demerger.

After months of fanfare, Qantas last week released the details of its non-stop flight from Perth to London aboard its new Dreamliner. And the loser is ... Melbourne.

Technology One and the council have been battling over the renegotiation of a $122 million, 10-year contract to replace 13 systems.

Australian scientists have spent years trying to find out just how far baby clownfish like Nemo travel once they leave the anemone.

With electricity price hikes predicted to be just around the corner a research company is advising Queenslanders to consider changing their plan.

A curious mind led to this story about purple carrots.