1:06 PM AEST | VIDEO: An oil platform explosion on Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico forced the crew to jump into the sea and threatened further damage to waters still recovering from the BP disaster.
12:57 PM AEST | Rain is driving into western NSW, kicking off the seventh major rain event of the year.
12:34 PM AEST | Two Frenchmen are accused of indecently assaulting five teenage girls who were on a school excursion.
12:22 PM AEST | Fathers Day came a little early for Bill Langenhorst this year.
12:09 PM AEST | Queensland independent Bob Katter has had his arm twisted "pretty firmly" by former prime minister Kevin Rudd to support Labor.
12:08 PM AEST | A Sydney man was bitten on the head by a shark off the Solomon Islands yesterday.
11:50 AM AEST | Des Campbell is sentenced to 24 years jail for killing his wife, whom he pushed over a cliff.
9:26 AM AEST | The father whose question at a community forum led to outrage at a Queensland Labor MP two days before the federal election has admitted he lied.
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9:13 AM AEST | The Coalition has started to put the heat on the three hold-out rural independents - saying it was "inconceivable" any of them would back a Labor government that had joined the Greens to push a left-leaning agenda.
8:33 AM AEST | Independent MP Andrew Wilkie knocked back a $1 billion incentive to side with the Coalition yesterday, choosing instead to bolster Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s chances of retaining power.
8:31 AM AEST | Roger Federer has rolled into the third round of the US Open while sixth seed Nikolay Davydenko lost and Japanese qualifier Kei Nishikori dumped 11th seed Marin Cilic in five gruelling sets.
8:29 AM AEST | Top seed Caroline Wozniacki has powered her way into the third round of the US Open, handing out a 6-0 6-0 whitewash to Taiwan's Chang Kai-Chen.
8:08 AM AEST | Sydney's loss to Melbourne six weeks ago was the catalyst for a drastic change, writes Michael Cowley.
8:02 AM AEST | A PLANNING process ''full of vague and ill-defined statements'' and a ''lack of commitment'' to development by government agencies are the main reasons behind a 10-year slump in Sydney home building rates, a new report says.
6:57 AM AEST | REGULAR poker machine players will need to nominate how much they are prepared to lose every time they play, under a landmark agreement between Julia Gillard and the independent MP Andrew Wilkie.
6:43 AM AEST | Pakistan's top diplomat in Britain claims that the three cricketers facing match-fixing allegations were "set up".
6:32 AM AEST | TONY ABBOTT has been poked in the eye by his own budget costings and his eagerness to spend - the same costings that, when the Coalition added them up, helped him successfully flay Labor for profligacy and waste during the election campaign.
6:05 AM AEST | JULIA GILLARD is two seats away from forming a minority government after the Tasmanian independent Andrew Wilkie rejected a $1 billion offer from Tony Abbott and threw his support behind Labor.
6:04 AM AEST | THE COALITION made four kinds of mistakes in its costings according to the Treasury; the understandable, the inexcusable, the inexplicable, and those resulting from a failure to comprehend the nature of the process.
4:00 AM AEST | PUNTERS have swung behind Labor with some sizeable bets after Treasury found holes in the Coalition’s policy costings, bookie Sportingbet Australia said.
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