Police spokeswoman Sheree Argento said it was too early to tell whether charges would be laid after a six-metre half cabin cruiser and a six-metre speed boat crashed yesterday.
SMOKING would be banned for everyone born next year, junk food would be taxed and everyone would be subjected to a fitness test by 2020.
ONE of Australia's worst and youngest online predators has been called a "gross sort of misfit" by a judge who today sentenced him to almost three years in prison.
FIREFIGHTERS have been called in to rescue a six-week-old puppy named Diesel, who stuck his head in a disconnected toilet pipe in north Queensland.
AN agitated man threatened staff at a Brunswick pub four days before Lewis Moran was shot there, a court has heard.
FIVE youths armed with baseball bats and a machete may have been seeking revenge when they allegedly attacked a high school and its students today, police say.
DELIBERATE contamination of uncooked meat and frozen products has forced removal of the food from supermarkets and sparked an Australia-wide police hunt for the culprit
KYLIE Minogue dazzled in front of 20 million American TV viewers tonight when she took centre stage on America's version of Dancing with the Stars.
AN armed group raided a Buddhist shrine in eastern Burma and stole the corpse of a revered monk whose body had been displayed as a holy relic in a glass coffin, an official said today.
A woman was beaten up and shot dead by her father for talking online with a man she met on the website Facebook. The case was reported on a Saudi Arabian news site as an example of the "strife" the social networking site is causing in the Islamic nation.
TWO women dubbed "the Barbie Bandits" after they went on a shopping spree following an $11,000 bank robbery were sentenced yesterday - one to jail and another to probation.
THE cost of the Iraq war is squeezing funding for US global food aid programs and threatens to exacerbate hunger just as soaring prices are hitting the world's poor, former US presidential contender George McGovern said.
A MAN has been crucified for the 22nd time in a gruesome Easter ritual.
A husband and wife were jailed Monday for the manslaughter of their baby, who died after they chose to use homeopathic remedies rather than conventional medicine to treat her severe skin disorder.
South Korea's telecommunications regulator said Wednesday that Apple Inc. can sell its hit iPhone in the country — potentially shaking up a cell phone market controlled by domestic manufacturers.
Millions of Australians were wiping a film of reddish Outback grit from nearly everything Thursday after the country's worst dust storm in seven decades played havoc with transport systems and sent asthmatics scurrying inside.
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