Новости за 12.12.2017

"In a flash, his hand had reached the hem of my skirt and was not slowing."

The local sharemarket is poised to open in positive territory on the back of another record night on Wall Street.

Queensland groups want North Stradbroke and Moreton islands to be World Heritage Listed to boost tourism, but it could delay another site's nomination.

A woman was left stranded on the side of a road after she stopped for a cyclist who reached into her car, grabbed her keys from the ignition and threw them into bushland.

No one really knows where the bitcoin price surge will stop.

Plus, do you have what it takes to be a spy?

A former Facebook executive is making waves after he spoke out about his "tremendous guilt" over growing the social network, which he feels has eroded "the core foundations of how people behave by and between each other."

Scientists have unearthed in New Zealand fossil bones of what might be the heavyweight champion of the penguin world, a bird nearly 1.77 metres tall that thrived 55 to 60 million years ago, relatively soon after the demise of the dinosaurs.

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President Donald Trump forcefully entered the national debate about sexual harassment on Tuesday.

​Australia have approached World Cup winning coach Luiz Felipe Scolari about leading them to the 2018 tournament in Russia, the former Brazil and Portugal coach said.

South African prison authorities said that Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee athletics star jailed for murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, had been bruised in an altercation with a fellow inmate over the use of a public telephone in prison.

A former hire care driver who allegedly set off a pipe bomb in one of New York City's busiest transport corridors has been charged 24 hours after the explosion caused a peak hour frenzy in Midtown Manhattan.

The $170 billion franchise industry needs the blowtorch put on it. “There are suicides, marriage breakdowns and bankruptcies. There is a huge problem in the franchise sector and we need to have a proper inquiry to fix it,” says Nationals senator John Williams.

A woman has successfully sued a Gold Coast skin cancer doctor for more than $40,000 after he inappropriately massaged her breasts and buttocks during an examination.

Europe's largest listed commercial property company agreed to buy Sir Frank Lowy's Westfield Corp in a $US24.7 billion ($32.8 billion) deal.

I used to think it was funny to call people out for not drinking in the silly season. Then I got pregnant.

Google's latest deal forms part of a broader charm offensive, and puts it ahead of Facebook

Frank Lowy's massive deal will send billions looking for a home.

Nearly 25 per cent of year 9 boys across Australia are not meeting the national minimum standard in writing, with Education Minister Simon Birmingham warning the latest NAPLAN results should be a "wake-up call" for educators.

A Fishermans Bend high-rise project has been given the green light after the developer took planning minister Richard Wynne to the tribunal.

It comes after the Brisbane councillor spoke about meeting on "stolen land" and suggested the government made it difficult to obtain citizenship.

The No Land Tax Party and its leader, Peter Jones, have been fined a total of $80,890 for paying election staff nothing.

The battle for the federal seat of Bennelong has taken the spotlight from its former incumbent, ex ABC star Maxine McKew, and her sunny new career.

The Dastyari case sparked laws designed to curb foreign influence, but they ignore the bigger picture.