2015-01-18 Australia More Top Stories

The Australian   

Queensland election 2015: parties launch campaigns   
The Australian
1.48pm: Clive Palmer has missed his own party's Queensland election campaign launch. His minders cited the flu as the reason Mr Palmer failed to attend the PUP launch on the Sunshine Coast earlier today. But Palmer United Party state leader John ...

2015-01-18 Australia Health

NDTV   

Is fat loss all in our mind?   
ABC Online
BRENDAN TREMBATH: New research raises the prospect that our brains could be tricked into telling our bodies to lose weight. Monash University researchers have examined the way two naturally-occurring hormones give the brain a comprehensive picture ...

2015-01-18 Australia Science

ABC Online   

Labor, Greens pressure Tony Abbott to act on climate change as 2014 named ...   
ABC Online
Labor and the Greens are pressuring the Government to do more to combat climate change, in light of a new report showing 2014 as the hottest year in modern history. The data from America's space agency NASA shows that not only was 2014 the warmest ...

2015-01-18 Australia Sports

ABC Online   

Robert Allenby: Australian golfer reportedly kidnapped, robbed and beaten in ...   
ABC Online
Australian golfer Robert Allenby has reportedly been kidnapped and bashed in Hawaii where he had been taking part in a tournament. The 43-year-old was at a wine bar in Honolulu, after missing the cut in a PGA tournament. The Golf Channel is reporting ...

2015-01-18 Australia Entertainment

Hindustan Times   

The internet is furious over Oscars snubbing The Lego Movie   
Hindustan Times
An ordinary Lego minifigure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary master builder, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil Lego tyrant from gluing the universe together. Will this Everyman manage to win the day? The plastic world, and the audience, ...

2015-01-18 Australia Technology

Brisbane Times   

Targeted ads are coming to a billboard near you   
Brisbane Times
Science fiction is fast becoming reality if trends in automotive advertising are anything to go by. Car maker Lexus is set to unveil a series of intelligent, super-sized ads on billboards in key locations across the country on Monday. The billboards can tell what ...

2015-01-18 Australia Business

Why everything you think about the economy in 2015 is probably wrong   
Brisbane Times
Farmer John Versteden: Australian dairy exports are expected to be a major winner from the free trade agreement with China. Photo: Justin McManus. Financial market convulsions; the Budget drowning in a sea of red ink; Europe on the verge of a ...

2015-01-18 Australia Australia

Herald Sun   

Police arrest husband of woman found dead in shopping centre car park   
Sydney Morning Herald
Hairdresser Leila Alavi was at work when her estranged husband Mokhtar Hosseiniamraei asked her to meet him in a western Sydney car park on Saturday morning, say colleagues. But the apprentice, aged 26, walked down to the Auburn car park and never ...

2015-01-18 Australia World

ABC Online   

Millions gather for Pope's mass in stormy Philippines   
ABC Online
Pope Francis will today celebrate mass with millions in the Philippine capital in what could be the world's biggest papal gathering, capping off a dramatic trip in the Catholic Church's Asian heartland. A tropical storm that killed one papal volunteer forced the ...