2015-01-01 Australia More Top Stories

Sydney Morning Herald   

Sydney New Year's Eve: crowd estimates down on last year   
Sydney Morning Herald
It's the annual event that wins global news coverage for Sydney, but it seems that this year the locals stayed away. Early attendance figures suggest the number of people who flocked to the city to watch the New Year's Eve fireworks display might have been ...

2015-01-01 Australia Health

Mirror.co.uk   

Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey's experimental treatment taking her into 'unknown ...   
Mirror.co.uk
The doctor treating Ebola sufferer Pauline Cafferkey has warned her experimental treatment would take her into unknown territory. Dr Michael Jacobs said there was a risk that the hero medic – who spent five weeks caring for victims of the deadly disease in ...

2015-01-01 Australia Science

New Vision   

First frog that gives birth to tadpoles   
New Vision
This undated photo shows a male and female of the new species (Limnonectes larvaepartus). The male is the smaller one, and the frogs were collected on the west coast of the Central Core of Sulawesi, Indonesia. (AFP/Jim McGuire) ...

2015-01-01 Australia Sports

IBNLive   

Phillip Hughes to be remembered at SCG with plaque   
TVNZ
A plaque to honour the memory of Phillip Hughes will be unveiled at the SCG on Monday on the eve of the fourth Test between Australia and India. In one of a number of planned tributes to Hughes, whose death five weeks ago after being struck by a bouncer ...

2015-01-01 Australia Entertainment

Sydney Morning Herald   

Julia Zemiro thanked God when the ABC's 2014 New Year's Eve telecast was over   
Sydney Morning Herald
Set to a spectacular backdrop of fireworks and New Year revellers on Sydney harbour, the ABC last night farewelled a long, gruelling year with what was, at times, a long, gruelling telecast. Even the show's co-host, the comedian Julia Zemiro, was heard over ...

2015-01-01 Australia Technology

Warwick Daily News   

Puzzling new additions should stump some readers   
Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
SUDOKU LOVER: Morning Bulletin reporter Melanie Plane can't wait to tackle the new puzzle section of the paper every day, which will feature two sudokus. Allan Reinikka. Popular Stories. Tomorrow's New Year's celebrations in Rocky and on the coast ...

2015-01-01 Australia Business

The Australian   

Australian stockmarket's worst return since 2011 as ASX 200 gains 1.1pc   
The Australian
THE Australian sharemarket has turned in its worst annual performance in three years. Closing lower on the last trading day of 2014, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 finished the year overall up 1.1 per cent at 5411 — its smallest annual gain since 2011.
Oil sank, Telstra climbed and the sharemarket came out even in 2014   The Age
Market Wrap: ASX ends 2014 at 5411 before NYE   Finance News Network
Stagnant ASX ends year with a whimper   ABC Online
Motley Fool Australia   
Business Insider Australia   
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Sydney Morning Herald   

From James Packer to Esra Ogru to Michael Wooldridge, the best of business ...   
Sydney Morning Herald
If there was an award for the naughtiest business person of the last 12 months, then you may well have David Gyngell and James Packer at the top of the list of nominees. In May, these high-flying businessmen came to blows on a Bondi street when Mr Packer ...

2015-01-01 Australia Australia

Yahoo!7 News   

Light aircraft recovery operation off Tasmania fails when line snaps   
Sydney Morning Herald
Police trying to recover a light aircraft containing two bodies from deep water off Tasmania came frustratingly close before a snapped line sent it to the bottom again. The wreck was winched off the floor of Storm Bay, near Hobart, to within 15 metres of the ...

2015-01-01 Australia World

Sydney Morning Herald   

Sydney New Year's Eve: crowd estimates down on last year   
Sydney Morning Herald
It's the annual event that wins global news coverage for Sydney, but it seems that this year the locals stayed away. Early attendance figures suggest the number of people who flocked to the city to watch the New Year's Eve fireworks display might have been ...

2014-12-31 Australia More Top Stories

Sydney Morning Herald   

AirAsia Flight QZ8501: Bodies recovered as bad weather hampers search   
Sydney Morning Herald
Bodies pulled from AirAsia wreckage · The passengers of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 · Debris found by village fisherman. Surabaya: Bad weather early on Wednesday was hampering the air search for bodies and debris from AirAsia flight QZ8501, but divers were ...

2014-12-31 Australia Health

Telegraph.co.uk   

Pauline Cafferkey's diary as a nurse on Ebola's frontline   
Telegraph.co.uk
Pauline Cafferkey, the first patient to be diagnosed with Ebola in Britain, was volunteering with Save the Children in Sierra Leone. She kept a moving first-person diary recording her first four weeks on the frontline in the battle against the deadly disease:.
Ebola virus reaches UK   Times of India
Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey asked to be tested SEVEN TIMES   Daily Mail
UPDATE 7-Nurse becomes first Ebola victim diagnosed in Britain   Reuters
BBC News   
Irish Independent   
The Australian (blog)   
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Daily Mail   

Girl reportedly taken from home and flown to Africa for genital mutilation by father   
Daily Mail
The Australian Federal Police is investigating reports of a Brisbane girl being taken from her home to undergo genital mutilation in Africa. It is believed the girl is between the ages of four and seven and is travelling with her father, The Guardian Australia ...

2014-12-31 Australia Science

Brisbane Times   

Liberal MP rebukes Abbott on coal and says gas is the future for developing ...   
WA today
One of the Liberal Party's rising stars has rebuked Prime Minister Tony Abbott's claim that coal is the key to providing developing countries with low-cost energy. NSW Liberal MP Angus Taylor, who was elected the member for Hume in the 2013 election, says ...

2014-12-31 Australia Sports

Sydney Morning Herald   

Australia's captain Steve Smith shows how to kill a Test match   
Sydney Morning Herald
Australia's new cricket captain Steve Smith has shown that he knows how to handle a team. He has also shown that he can score runs when vested with responsibility. And he has, disappointingly, shown that he knows how to kill a Test match. On Tuesday, it ...

2014-12-31 Australia Entertainment

WHO   

Lara Bingle Sam Worthington Married In Secret   
WHO
Lara Bingle has sparked fresh rumours she's married Hollywood actor Sam Worthington by changing her name on social media. The socialite now goes by the name Lara Bingle Worthington on Instagram. Lara Bingle's latest Instagram change has sparked ...

2014-12-31 Australia Technology

Sydney Morning Herald   

Apple patents smart pen for saving, broadcasting your notes and drawings   
Sydney Morning Herald
Is the stylus making a comeback in mobile gadgets? Apple has been granted a patent for a smart pen that could save what you write on a piece of paper, a whiteboard or even thin air and transmit it wirelessly to your phone or tablet. While similar devices like ...

2014-12-31 Australia Business

ABC Online   

Australian dollar falls to record low against New Zealand dollar   
ABC Online
The Australian dollar is at a record low against New Zealand's currency, dipping increasingly close to parity with the Kiwi. The local currency hit 104.22 New Zealand cents overnight, and continues to trade only just above that level. The previous record low of ...

2014-12-31 Australia Australia

Sydney Morning Herald   

Sydney New Year's Eve: siege victims remembered in floral tribute   
Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney will remember the victims of the Lindt cafe siege, Katrina Dawson and Tori Johnson, when more than an expected 1.6 million people gather around Sydney Harbour for New Year's Eve. Floral mementoes with the words "Sydney remembers" will be ...

2014-12-31 Australia World

Telegraph.co.uk   

Resolution for Palestinian State Fails in United Nations Security Council   
New York Times
A United Nations Security Council draft resolution that set a deadline to establish a sovereign Palestinian state was defeated Tuesday night after it failed to receive the nine votes that are needed for adoption in the 15-member body. The United States and ...

2014-12-30 Australia More Top Stories

Voice of America   

Rescuers Expand Search for Missing AirAsia Jet   
Voice of America
The search for the missing AirAsia jet has resumed off Indonesia with officials believing the airliner may be at the bottom of the Java Sea. But Indonesian search-and-rescue officials say they will expand their efforts to include land, hoping the plane may be on ...

2014-12-30 Australia Health

Sky News Australia   

Brisbane girl taken to Africa for genital mutilation: report   
Brisbane Times
A girl has reportedly been taken from her Brisbane home to undergo female genital mutilation in Africa. Australian Federal Police confirmed that they had received a referral to investigate the matter. A spokeswoman said they were unable to reveal details of ...

2014-12-30 Australia Science

Pacific shift may accelerate warming   
The Land Newspaper
WITH 2014 likely to be declared the world's hottest year on record, the last thing the planet needs is a climate shift to turbo-charge the global warming already under way. While it's an early call, a measure of surface temperature differences in the Pacific shifted ...

2014-12-30 Australia Sports

The Australian   

Australia v India: Live updates from final day of Boxing Day Test   
The Australian
2.01pm: WHEELS STARTING TO FALL OFF FOR INDIA! Vijay is out lbw to Josh Hazlewood and India is now 3-19 as Ajinkya Rahane comes out to join Kohli. From India's point of view, they'll need a repeat of their brilliant first innings stand if this match is to ...

2014-12-30 Australia Entertainment

Vancouver Sun   

Sony hacking case combines rare blend of international intrigue and Hollywood ...   
Vancouver Sun
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - The hackers who hit Sony Pictures Entertainment days before Thanksgiving crippled the network, stole gigabytes of data and spilled into public view unreleased films and reams of private and sometimes embarrassing executive emails.
How 'The Interview's' VOD grosses could change the game   New Zealand Herald
Before 'The Interview,' other films performed well on VOD   Los Angeles Times
'The Interview' Becomes 2014's Top Seller on Google Sites   Variety
Reuters Canada   
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Sydney Morning Herald   

Undercover Boss CEO awards employee with breast implants in controversial ...   
Sydney Morning Herald
Dear CBS: When you have an Undercover Boss showcasing a Texas-based sports bar called Bikinis, starring a CEO who awards one employee with breast implants and fires another for not wearing a bikini on camera, why would you bury that episode in late ...

2014-12-30 Australia Technology

USA TODAY   

China Adds New Barrier To Gmail   
New York Times
BEIJING — The Chinese government appears to have blocked the ability of people in China to gain access to Google's email service through third-party email services like Apple Mail or Microsoft Outlook, which many Chinese and foreigners had been relying ...

2014-12-30 Australia Business

ABC Online   

First shipment of LNG to leave Gladstone in central Queensland bound for Asia   
ABC Online
The first export shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) bound for Asia has been loaded from Curtis island off Gladstone in central Queensland. This moment has been six years in the making, with the LNG industry built up from scratch. There are three LNG ...

2014-12-30 Australia Australia

The Australian   

Sydney jihadi Ahmad al-Ghaz'zaoui dies fighting with Islamic State   
The Australian
A Sydney based extremist has reportedly been killed while fighting in Syria after entering the country through Turkey late last month. Ahmad Mohamad al-Ghaz'zaoui, a Bankstown resident, was named on the online social networking site Syria 24 over the ...

2014-12-30 Australia World

Voice of America   

Rescuers Expand Search for Missing AirAsia Jet   
Voice of America
The search for the missing AirAsia jet has resumed off Indonesia with officials believing the airliner may be at the bottom of the Java Sea. But Indonesian search-and-rescue officials say they will expand their efforts to include land, hoping the plane may be on ...

2014-12-29 Australia More Top Stories

The Australian   

#BREAKING AirAsia Flight #QZ8501 likely 'at bottom of sea': Indonesia search ...   
The Australian
1.39pm: A distraught relative whose two siblings were on missing AirAsia Flight QZ8501 has. said he was upset to hear an airline official say he joined in their “sadness”. “What he said was not appropriate at all. If they were sad it means there's death. But the ...

2014-12-29 Australia Health

The Age   

Gag-inducing milk part of new raw bath milk laws in Victoria   
ABC Online
In response to the death of one child and hospitalisation of several others, the Victorian government will introduce laws to make raw 'bath' milk undrinkable. Media player: "Space" to play, "M" to mute, "left" and "right" to seek.
Child's death forces new Australian milk safety laws   GlobalPost
Dairy farmers will be forced to make raw milk unpalatable under tough new laws   Daily Mail
Victoria launches crackdown on sale of 'raw' unpasteurised milk   The Guardian
Stock Journal   
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Inquiry reveals disturbing trend as self-harm cases increase   
Northern Rivers Echo
It is a tragic issue that weighs on the minds of children and teenagers, their families and all those who try to help in the biggest and smallest communities of the nation. Evidence gathered in a year-long examination of the issue by National Children's ...

2014-12-29 Australia Science

Canberra engineer Jacque Comery to lead Australian Antarctic Division team on ...   
Sydney Morning Herald
Environmental engineer Jacque Comery will swap her hard hat and high-vis vest for layers of thermals when she takes a year off work to lead the Australian Antarctic Division's Macquarie Island expedition. Temperatures during her 12-month stint at the harsh, ...

2014-12-29 Australia Sports

The Australian   

Australia v India: Day four review from the MCG   
The Australian
AUSTRALIA has opened up aggressively after quickly rolling up the India tail on the fourth morning of the Boxing Day Test at the MCG. At drinks the hosts were 0-48 with Dave Warner on 38 (30 balls, six fours) and Chris Rogers on nine (31 balls). Australia ...

2014-12-29 Australia Entertainment

Sydney Morning Herald   

Sydney Festival founding director Stephen Hall dies   
Sydney Morning Herald
Australia has lost one of its leading cultural figures with the death of Stephen Hall, the founding director of the Sydney Festival. Hall, who led the festival for 18 years and earned the moniker "Festival Hall", died on Christmas Eve at his home in the Blue ...

2014-12-29 Australia Technology

NDTV   

PlayStation Network back online   
The Australian
SONY brought its PlayStation Network back online yesterday, laying the blame on external attackers for triggering an outage that lasted nearly three days. The Japanese video game company hadn't previously explained what caused the disruption on ...

2014-12-29 Australia Business

Sky News Australia   

Programmed Maintenance Services makes play for Skilled Group   
Sydney Morning Herald
Labour hire firm Skilled Group has said a merger offer from rival Programmed Maintenance Services is "opportunistic" despite Programmed's claim the deal would create $20 million of synergies and deliver $150 million of value to shareholders in both ...

2014-12-29 Australia Australia

Sydney Morning Herald   

Car crashes through fence, over cliff at Burrows Park in Clovelly   
Sydney Morning Herald
A car has crashed through a fence and plunged 30 metres off a cliff in Clovelly in Sydney's east, police say. Do you know more? Email us, message us on Twitter @smh. A witness who phoned triple-0 said they could hear the driver crying out for help about ...

2014-12-29 Australia World

Sky News Australia   

AirAsia plane 'likely at bottom of the sea'   
Sky News Australia
The missing AirAsia passenger plane 'is likely at the bottom of the sea', the chief of Indonesia's search effort has said. Bambang Soelistyo added that an initial investigation into the disappearance of Flight QZ8501 had revealed that the 'estimated crash ...

2014-12-28 Australia More Top Stories

Sydney Morning Herald   

Sydney to Hobart: live updates on day three of the yacht race   
The Australian
2.15pm: @WildOatsXI has entered the Derwent! Great sight. @australian @rshyr #RSHYR pic.twitter.com/W4JcCYAS8f. — Sue Neales (@BushReporter) December 28, 2014. 2.07pm: Wild Oats XI Enters the Derwent. Heading for historic 8th line honours.
Comanche closes on Wild Oats Xl in Sydney to Hobart thriller finish   Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney to Hobart: Wild Oats XI and Comanche in tight race to finish   ABC Online
Sydney to Hobart: American yacht Comanche desperately tries to reel in Wild ...   Courier Mail
TVNZ   
New Zealand Herald   
Aljazeera.com   
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ABC Online   

Luke Foley to contest NSW Labor Party leadership   
Sydney Morning Herald
Labor MP Luke Foley has announced he will run for the party leadership in NSW following John Robertson's resignation last week. "I will be a candidate for the office of the NSW Labor Party," he said. Mr Foley, 44, an upper house MP, said on Sunday ...

2014-12-28 Australia Health

The Guardian   

Victoria to introduce tough raw milk laws   
The Age
A gag-inducing chemical used in anti-freeze will be required to be mixed into all batches of raw milk sold in Victoria, the state government has announced. The new regulations come in the wake of the death of a three-year-old Mornington Peninsula child, who ...

2014-12-28 Australia Science

ABC Online   

Australian Brush-Turkey makes a Remarkable Comeback   
West Texas News
As per behavioral ecologists, the count of Australian brush-turkey has exploded in Brisbane and now the species is heading towards Sydney. Professor Darryl Jones, a behavioral ecologist, said that their population has increased by 700% in the past 20 years ...

2014-12-28 Australia Sports

IBNLive   

1:37PM Haddin's catch a Twitter sensation   
NEWS.com.au
FOLLOW the live coverage of day three of the third Test at the MCG. A mostly sunny day is expected in Melbourne, with a top temperature of 31C. Play starts at 10.30am AEDT. Continue the conversation on Twitter @jaibednall. Scroll to the bottom of the page ...

2014-12-28 Australia Entertainment

Contactmusic.com   

Jennifer Warnes Pens Tribute Essay To Dream Duet Partner Cocker   
Contactmusic.com
Singer/songwriter Jennifer Warnes has penned an essay tribute to her one-time duet partner Joe Cocker, who died earlier this week (22Dec14). The Up Where We Belong singer reveals she grew up worshipping gravel-voiced Cocker and had a photo of him ...

2014-12-28 Australia Technology

Kansas City Star   

Sony yet to restore PlayStation after attack   
Sydney Morning Herald
Sony Corp worked through the weekendto restore services to its PlayStation online gaming network after a Christmas Day cyber attack shuttered access to some customers, including holiday recipients of new game consoles. "If you received a PlayStation ...

2014-12-28 Australia Business

Sydney Morning Herald   

Bears coming out of hibernation   
Sydney Morning Herald
Every February the king of short selling, Jim Chanos, assembles an exclusive band of scheming cynics in the Florida sunshine to discuss what is likely to fall apart in the year ahead. He's dubbed his little gathering “Bears in Hibernation”, in part to ...

2014-12-28 Australia Australia

Yahoo!7 News   

Search for boy, 6, missing after swimming in Murray River, Victoria, 'a recovery ...   
ABC Online
A search for a six-year-old boy who was swept away while swimming in the Murray River is now being treated as a recovery operation, police say. Rescue crews have been criss-crossing the area on the border of New South Wales and Victoria since the boy ...

2014-12-28 Australia World

The Hindu   

People screamed: 'Tsunami, run away' most didn't understand the meaning   
Irish Independent
Sam the Tailor, his wife Sao and tourist Pascal Leloup in front of Sam's totally devastated shop for which he, like so many others, has no insurance. Barry Murphy and Eilis Finnegan. IT started as a typical tropical day at our home on a hillside in Kata, five ...

2014-12-27 Australia More Top Stories

9news.com.au   

Govt support plunge no surprise: ALP   
Yahoo!7 News
The latest Newspoll showing a plunge in voter support for the Abbott government is no surprise, Labor says. Opposition education spokesman senator Kim Carr says voters are angry because the government came to office on the back of a lie. An analysis of ...

2014-12-27 Australia Health

The Age   

Here's One Thing Typical during the Holidays Aside from Gift Giving   
Youth Health Magzine
Most people love the holidays. It's the perfect time to see friends and family, and of course hand out gifts to let them know we do remember them. But there's another thing that's also common during this season. We are talking about food poisoning. In Australia ...

2014-12-27 Australia Science

Sydney Morning Herald   

Stanford University students create 'gecko gloves' that allow humans to scale ...   
Sydney Morning Herald
It doesn't mean experiments taking place at Stanford's Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Lab are any less science-y just because they sometimes resemble scenes from a Spider-Man or Mission: Impossible movie. "You see those movies as a kid and ...