Новости за 17.02.2017

President Donald Trump's combative news conference on Thursday afternoon left some people speechless.

Two people have died on Victorian roads in separate single car crashes on Friday.

The UK consumer finally appears to be cracking - potentially taking Britain's economic strength with it.

During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump toyed with the idea of deploying a "deportation force" to round up and deport undocumented immigrants. Then he waffled on that proposal for a few months.

"That is 100 per cent not true. It is false. It is irresponsible to be saying this,' Sean Spicer says.

Some of the world's biggest banks including Macquarie and ANZ have been identified in a South African currency probe.

The new Hawthorn captain performed well in his first game back after battling cancer.

Tony Blair urged Britons to "rise up" and demand a second Brexit referendum in a last-ditch effort to remain in the European Union.

A man has died and two people have been arrested following an altercation in Sydney's west in the early hours of Saturday morning.

The United States risks developing an entrenched culture of conflict between the president and his own bureaucracy, experts warn.

The Trump administration is preparing to roll back Obame-era environmental safeguards as Scott Pruitt prepares to take head up the Environmental Protection Agency.

Unilever rejected a surprise $186 billion takeover bid from US food company Kraft Heinz on Friday.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has told allies that Washington backs UN efforts to broker a political solution to the Syrian war.

The women were possibly duped by a spy ring into attacking Kim Jong-un's half brother, according to reports.

The debate over having two Australian sides playing concurrently is set to reignite after Sri Lanka claimed a five-wicket win off the final ball in game one of the Twenty20 series on Friday night.

Jarryd Roughead didn't miss a beat, Jaeger O'Meara slotted in seamlessly, Ty Vickery competed well and Geelong were beaten with a kick after the siren. For a mid-February practice match, things couldn't have gone much better for Hawthorn on Friday night at the University of Tasmania Stadium.

The most controversial figure in the Victorian Liberal Party, Marcus Bastiaan, had his Sydney audience enthralled as he thundered about the need for change.

"Old AFL executives never die, they just get a gig with Bastion" – it's easy to see how the joke started but it isn't quite the boys club it's made out to be.

A spirited Adelaide United ground out a hard-fought 1-0 win over the Newcastle Jets at Coopers Stadium on Friday night thanks to a second-half penalty from Marcelo Carrusca.

The white knight of NSW racing fiefdom, Peter V'landys, bearded for action, is sharpening his broadsword to repel the invader, CrownBet, looking for new territory after a setback in China.

According to the bookies, India are more likely to beat Australia in their Test series than Winx is to beat Mister Ed. If the Border-Gavaskar series, starting in Pune on Thursday, were to be played a theoretical 11 times, Australia would be backable to win it just once. At best. And even that is beyond punters' capacity for optimism.

"All the arrows are pointing in a very bad direction," says Danny Price, who sits on the government's Climate Change Authority.

National Australia Bank's most senior bankers this week swapped their city offices for a type of executive road trip.

ACT politicians must honour their election promises to completely overhaul the Planning and Development Act.

When it closes its doors next month, Jo-Jo's on Queen Street Mall will leave just a few "originals" from when the mall opened in 1982.