Call to standardise all L-platers across Australia
| ROAD rules for learner drivers would be the same around Australia under a state government plan. | Roads Minister Duncan Gay will today urge the federal government to adopt the plan to give learner ...

Children on long car trips - little monsters in the back seat
| "ARE we there yet?" | If the answer isn't "yes" in 23 minutes or less, parents have got a screaming, squabbling problem on their hands. | That narrow window of time, according to...

Victor Chang's killer Chiew Seng Liew will be deported to Malaysia
| THE underworld gangster who fired the shot that killed heart surgeon Victor Chang will be put on the first plane home to Malaysia when he is released from jail. | But the State Parole Authority was ...

New spate of robbery on the highways
| GANGS of thieves armed with guns and knives are terrorising idyllic mid north coast towns, with police linking four recent robberies to the same group. | There have been eight armed robberies betwee...

Sisters on run with their great grandma
| POLICE searched the rural home of a grandmother of four sisters yesterday as they continued to ignore a court order saying they must return to Italy to live with their father. | The girls' 70-year-o...

Exploiting weak boat people policy
| IN one sense, the government has been fortunate to be swamped with so many issues of concern recently. It meant that public attention was drawn away from the increasingly fraught subject of asylum s...

Rejected refugees get back on boats for another go
| ASYLUM seekers rejected after arriving by boat a decade ago are boarding vessels and coming back to Australia in the latest surge of arrivals. | One man even made his second dangerous sea journey wi...

GMAT Adds New Thinking Cap
| LONDON — Starting next month, prospective business school applicants who sit down to take the Graduate Management Admissions Test, or GMAT, may notice something different: Instead of a three-p...

NATO in a Time of Austerity
| In his valedictory speech last year, then-U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates argued that the partnership between the North American and European sides of the NATO alliance needed a new impulse. Rel...

Ordinance for dike demolition sought
| THE Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is asking for a local ordinance to conduct demolition of a dike in a part of the Iloilo River. | The Iloilo-Batiano River Development Counc...

Mas lig-on nga retaining wall sa Horizon
| MASALIGON ang Taft Development Property Corp. nga maoy nagpatukod sa Horizon 101 nga lig-on na ning higayuna ang proteksyon sa nahugno nga retaining wall ug naningkamot sila nga di na mahitabo pag-u...

Pinterest gets $100 mn, led by Japan's Rakuten
| AFP - Japanese online giant Rakuten announced Thursday it was leading a $100 million investment in Pinterest, a fast-growing US bulletin-board style social media website. | Rakuten said it was joini...

Birthday Girl's New 'Friend' Crashes Mini, Flees
| A birthday celebration ended with a joyride, a crash and a hit-and-run driver. | A young woman, celebrating her birthday at an Ocean Beach Bar, was riding in a Mini Cooper when it crashed into a ret...

Victor Rego promoted to senoir VP, GM of Les Films Seville
| Marie-Claude Roussel joins the team as Director of Marketing | Quebec-based Les Films Séville, an Entertainment One subsidiary, has promoted Victor Rego to General Manager and Senior Vice President...

eOne takes Australia/New Zealand on Samsara
| eOne and Hopscotch have acquired Australian and New Zealand rights to Samsara, the follow up to Baraka. | Filmed over a period of five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on ...

Pinterest gets $100 mn, led by Japan's Rakuten
| Japanese online giant Rakuten announced Thursday it was leading a $100 million investment in Pinterest, a fast-growing US bulletin-board style social media website. | Rakuten said it was joining wit...

New Report Spine Surgery Devices Market (2012 - 2017) by MarketsandMarkets
| Spine Surgery Devices Market research report categories the global market of Spinal Surgery Equipments on the basis of Technology & Products; Global Trends & Forecasts. | (PRWEB) May 17, 201...

Most Children Younger Than Age 1 are Minorities, Census Bureau Reports
| To: NATIONAL AND STATE EDITORS | WASHINGTON, May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Census Bureau today released a set of estimates showing that 50.4 percent of our nation's population you...

Warning on Indonesia's rising economic nationalism
| CANBERRA'S top diplomat in Jakarta has warned of the risks of a rising tide of economic nationalism in Indonesia, especially for Australian exporters and investors in the country. | Australia's amba...

Extradition hearing today for mother of Hollywood arson suspect
By Fred Shuster City News Servicedailynews.comPosted:   05/17/2012 06:30:04 AM PDTMay 17, 2012 1:32 PM GMTUpdated:   05/17/2012 06:30:33 AM PDT | LOS ANGELES - The mother of a man suspected ...

US GDP growth far behind Japan's
| Economic growth in the U.S. is lagging far behind on of its top competitors -- Japan. | According to CNNMoney.com, the Japanese economy is rebounding strongly in the wake of the devastating earthqua...

Facebook can't take Asia growth for granted
SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweetEven as Facebook fever grips investors ahead of the social networking giant's potential $100 billion-plus initial public offering, its breakneck growth in Asia may be slowing...

'Ring of Fire' eclipse visible from China to Texas
SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweet LOS ANGELES: Sunrises and sunsets often dazzle, but they'll have a special ring to them in a few days for people in the western United States and eastern Asia: The moon will...

2013 Honda Civic launched in Thailand
| We simply love the current Honda Civic even though it has been virtually unchanged for the last six years. As expected, there is a new model coming now and as we showed you last year, it is much sim...

Imogen Poots Joins Nick Hornby Adaptation 'A Long Way Down,' Steve Coogan Returns To '70's Brit Music Scene In "Northern Soul' & More
| Rising starlet Imogen Poots has joined the adaptation of Nick Hornsby's novel "A Long Way Down" which has Pascal Chaumeil at the helm. She'll star along side Toni Collette, Pierce ...

'World's oldest junk' returns to Taiwan
| The world's oldest surviving Chinese junk returned home to Taiwan on Thursday, nearly 60 years after it set sail on a historic voyage to the United States, organisers said. | The Free China arrived ...

First 'ring of fire' eclipse visible in US in nearly 20 years; also can be ...
| LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Sunrises and sunsets often dazzle, but they'll have a special ring to them in a few days for people in the western United States and eastern Asia: The moon will slide across th...