Oldest surviving Vauxhall for sale

The oldest surviving Vauxhall car will go under the hammer next month. Source: AAP THE oldest surviving Vauxhall car will go under the hammer next month. The 1903 two-seater 5hp veteran is expected to fetch between STG60,000 ($A93,472)...

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Social media growing in US politics: study

NEARLY two out of five US adults use social media to get involved in politics, with the younger crowd and the ideologically committed especially active, a study showed Friday. The Pew Research Center study showed that 60 per cent of adults use...

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Early look at Windows 8 baffles consumers

THE release of Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system is a week away, and consumers are in for a shock. Windows, used in one form or another for a generation, is getting a completely different look that will force users to learn new ways to do...

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Mount Gibson cuts 270 jobs on iron price

VOLATILE iron ore prices have forced Mount Gibson Iron to slash 270 jobs, sending the company's share price almost 20 per cent lower. Most of the cuts, which include 140 contractors, will be made at the company's Koolan Island operation off Western...

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Sydney gang rapist gets weekend leave

A SYDNEY man in jail for participating in two gang rapes has been refused parole for a third time but will be allowed out on weekends. Mohamad Sanoussi, 28, has served almost 12 years of a maximum 16-year sentence. Brothers Bilal and Mohammed...

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Wickenby accounts for veteran accountant

A FORMER president of the National Institute of Accountants has been sentenced to nearly five years in jail for tax fraud. Lynette Kathleen Liles, 66, showed no emotion as she was sentenced in the NSW Supreme Court on Thursday on four fraud counts,...

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Clock ticking on fed funding: O'Farrell

FEDERAL Treasurer Wayne Swan has accused NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell of attempting to cover up his own budget cuts after he called on the commonwealth to commit to billions of dollars worth of partnerships funding. NSW stands to lose $2.4 billion...

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CSL launches another share buyback

BLOOD products and vaccines supplier CSL Ltd will undertake another $900 million share buyback and still expects its profit to grow by about 12 per cent in fiscal 2103. The buyback is a continuation of the company's efforts to improve its capital...

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Pitbull entitled to cancel Oz tour: judge

US rapper Pitbull was entitled to cancel an Australian tour nearly four years ago after he was not paid on time, a NSW Supreme Court judge has ruled. Australian music promoters Jaime Fernandez, known as DJ Suave, and Juan Uribe, known as DJ Don...

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Tendulkar to receive Australian honour

INDIAN cricket great Sachin Tendulkar is to receive an Australian honour. Prime Minister Julia Gillard told reporters in New Delhi on Tuesday during her first visit to India as Australia's leader that Tendulkar was to be made an honorary member...

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Car park skeleton may be Richard III

ARCHAEOLOGISTS are anxiously waiting to see if a skeleton dug up from a hole in a car park in the English city of Leicester is the remains of the much-maligned King Richard III. More than five centuries after he was killed in the Battle of Bosworth...

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Court extends prisoner's strangle sentence

A PRISONER who tried to strangle a fellow inmate in the shower has had his minimum prison sentence increased by a year and a half in the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal. Andrew Robert Windle, 22, was sentenced to at least two-and-a-half years'...

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Hemp discovered in cereal import

HOW did hemp find its way into cereal imported into Australia from the United States? The prohibited plant was discovered by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) during an inspection in May and noted in DAFF's 2012 "Failing...

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Pulpy fruit parts said to prevent cancer

FIBRE has long been known to clean the bowel but it has now been found to deliver cleansing antioxidants to the colon as well, meaning it helps prevent stomach diseases such as cancer in two ways. University of Queensland scientist Anneline Padayachee...

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'Parasites and fungus' killed Qld catfish

PARASITES and fungus are the likely causes of a mass catfish kill-off in the Brisbane River. About 8000 fork-tailed catfish were found in September floating in the Brisbane River, near Lowood, west of Brisbane, with some as far upstream as Lockyer...

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