Новости за 04.05.2017

Foy's plastic plan killed off, and Defence denies claims of scathing report.

The US House of Representatives narrowly approved a bill to repeal Obamacare on Thursday, handing Republican President Donald Trump a victory that could prove short-lived as the healthcare legislation heads into a likely tough battle in the Senate.

Two baby lion cubs were presented to the public at a zoo in Chile on Thursday, born after a pioneering veterinary procedure that involved a reversed vasectomy of their father

Copper fell to five-months lows , posting its biggest two-day loss since July 2015, on rising inventories.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has had a busy morning in Manhattan ahead of his meeting with US President Donald Trump.

The fiance of Australian woman Cassandra Sainsbury is set to speak to the media about her detention in a Colombian jail on drug charges.

​Oil prices collapsed to their lowest since late November amid rising investor worries about a persistent global glut.

​Muslim women now will be able to compete in basketball while wearing hijab, thanks to a rule change by the international governing body for the sport.

The World Trade Organisation upheld Australia's right to impose plain-package label restrictions on tobacco products.

A Southern California father said he and his family were booted from a Delta flight after they declined to give up a seat they had bought for their teenage son and were attempting to use for his 2-year-old sibling.

Iron ore is in full-scale retreat, with futures in China plunging to end limit-down on investor concern about demand.

Jonathan Schwartz, 47, wept in court as he was sentenced on Wednesday to six years in prison and ordered to pay $8.6 million restitution, the Associated Press reported.

Washington: President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will travel to Saudi Arabia and Israel this month as part of his first foreign trip, wading directly into the tangled diplomacy of Middle Eastern politics.

A landmark Australian law on restrictive tobacco packaging has been upheld at the World Trade Organisation after a five-year legal battle, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing two people familiar with the situation.

US President Donald Trump will meet Pope Francis at the Vatican on May 24, senior sources said on Thursday.

Chicago Aviation Commissioner Ginger Evans apologized on Thursday for the city employees who forcibly removed a United Airlines passenger, an incident that prompted international condemnation and led the airline to revise its policies.

Erin Molan addressed the Anthony Bell infidelity allegations head-on on Thursday night.

The family of a 10-year-old boy who was decapitated on the world's tallest waterslide in the US will receive almost $20 million ($A27 million) in settlement payments.

Former US President Barack Obama endorsed centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron for France's presidential election on Sunday in a video message in which he praised Macron for appealing "to people's hopes and not their fears".

A man has pleaded guilty to a drive-by shooting, linked to a drug debt, that injured a woman in Canberra's south.

Residents of a Symonston caravan park are concerned new ownership will see their rent rise as infrastructure continues to crumble.

Two people aged in their 60s have been injured while fleeing their burning Sydney home with their teenage grandson.

Four separate businesses have lodged word-for-word identical submissions supporting a controversial plastic to fuel facility in Hume.

An unexpected $94 million cash boost from the sale of the City Square and other assets to the state government for the metro rail project has given the 2017-18 City of Melbourne budget a buffer to delay the era of debt that is coming, courtesy of rate-capping and the enormous Queen Victoria Market renewal project.

Any resumption of hostilities on the Korean peninsula would have catastrophic consequences for this country.