2015-01-20 Australia More Top Stories

ABC Online   

National terror threat level for police sector raised to high   
ABC Online
Australia's domestic security agency has raised the national terrorism threat level for all police to high. The threat level for police moves from medium to high for officers in New South Wales, Western Australia, Queensland and South Australia in recognition of ...

2015-01-20 Australia Health

6minutes   

Uncontrolled asthma rife among adolescents   
6minutes
Adolescents with poorly controlled asthma are putting their mental health on the line, report Australian researchers. Their survey of 533 people aged 12-25 with asthma shows just over half have K10 scores which suggest they are likely to have a mental health ...

2015-01-20 Australia Science

Malay Mail Online   

Asteroid 2004 BL86 to fly pass Earth on January 26 (VIDEO)   
Malay Mail Online
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 20 ― A half-kilometre-long asteroid will fly past earth on Monday (January 26), approaching as close as 1.2 million km from the planet, about three times the distance from earth to the moon. The asteroid, designated 2004 BL86, was ...

2015-01-20 Australia Sports

Sydney Morning Herald   

2015 Australian Open: Sam Stosur beats Monica Nicolescu   
Sydney Morning Herald
Australian Open 2015: full coverage · Live tennis scores · Take our tennis quiz. Australia's Samantha Stosur has claimed a comfortable first-round victory in her Australian Open clash against crafty Romanian Monica Nicolescu at Melbourne Park. Australian ...

2015-01-20 Australia Entertainment

FasterLouder   

Has Taylor Swift been disqualified from the Hottest 100?   
FasterLouder
Taylor Swift has been disqualified from the triple j Hottest 100 according to former triple j presenter Angela Catterns. Catterns made the claim on ABC program The Drum on Monday morning. Invited as a guest on the panel to discuss triple j's 40th birthday ...

2015-01-20 Australia Technology

Sydney Morning Herald   

Mario lives: researchers inject artificial intelligence into Nintendo's leading man   
Sydney Morning Herald
Super Mario's newest adventure is not about saving a princess, conquering Bowser or even completing a round of golf. It's about being empowered to break free of the shackles of player control, become self-aware and sate his endless hunger for coins and ...

2015-01-20 Australia Business

Sydney Morning Herald   

China's GDP figures stronger than expected   
Sydney Morning Herald
China's economic growth beat economists' estimates last quarter, helping the full-year expansion remain close to the government's target and suggesting stimulus efforts have started to boost demand. Gross domestic product rose 7.3 per cent in the three ...

2015-01-20 Australia Australia

Brisbane Times   

Australian Islamic State fighter Mahmoud Abdullatif killed in Syria, says wife   
Brisbane Times
An Australian jihadist has reportedly been killed in Syria, joining at least 20 others who have died while fighting in the country's long-running civil war. Mahmoud Abdullatif, 23, left his Melbourne home late last year with a friend, Suhan Rahman, to join Islamic ...

2015-01-20 Australia World

Sydney Morning Herald   

Prosecutor who said Argentine President Cristina Kirchner obstructed his inquiry ...   
Sydney Morning Herald
Buenos Aires: An Argentine prosecutor was found dead just hours before he had been due to give what was expected to be damning testimony against President Cristina Kirchner, in what appears to have been a suicide, officials said on Monday. The body of ...