Football codes urged to tackle concussion

AUSTRALIA'S football bosses have been urged to review their concussion management guidelines to protect players from long-term damage. Alzheimer's Australia NSW released a series of recommendations in a discussion paper on Sunday, asking the...

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Cyprus shellshocked over eurozone bailout

RESIDENTS of Cyprus have reacted with shock after the government agreed to a 10 billion euros ($A12.62 billion) bailout that includes an unprecedented levy on all bank deposits. The debt rescue package, agreed with the eurozone and International...

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Tense Zimbabwe votes on new constitution

ZIMBABWEANS have voted on a new constitution that would pave the way for crucial elections in a country plagued by political violence. Voters are expected to roundly back the text, which would introduce presidential term limits, beef up parliament's...

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Anglican leader to skip pope inauguration

THE new leader of the world's Anglicans, Justin Welby, will miss the inauguration of Pope Francis next week as he will be on a "pilgrimage of prayer", his residence has announced. Welby, who became Archbishop of Canterbury last month, will be...

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Reporter detained in China live on TV

A JOURNALIST and his camera operator have been detained in Tiananmen Square live on British television, in what he described as a surreal but telling episode about reporting in China. Viewers of the 24-hour British channel Sky News on Friday...

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Vatican rejects Argentina junta claims

THE Vatican has rejected claims that Pope Francis failed to do enough to protect two priests kidnapped and tortured by Argentina's military junta, saying he had in fact helped save lives. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the first pope to hail from Latin...

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Unborn wallaby caught on camera

IT'S a wallaby, but not like one you've ever seen. Australian scientists have for the first time videotaped a wallaby fetus - just 1.5mm in size - inside its mother's tummy. The scientists, from Melbourne University, used a high-resolution...

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'Black Death' skeletons found under London

WORKERS building a new railway in London have unearthed 13 skeletons thought to be victims of the Black Death plague that swept through Europe in the 14th century. The remains were dug up at Charterhouse Square in central London during excavation...

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Wild cyclonic weather to hit Lord Howe

A tropical cyclone is expected to cause extreme winds and surf on Lord Howe Island. Source: AAP A TROPICAL cyclone is expected to pass close by Lord Howe Island on Friday morning, lashing the island with damaging winds and surf, the weather...

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Man's body found near Broken Hill

THE body of an elderly man has been found near Broken Hill in outback NSW. Police said two elderly men, aged 81 and 78, went missing on Wednesday near Broken Hill after leaving the isolated mining town in a four-wheel drive. Police told AAP...

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UK, France prepared to arm Syrian rebels

FRANCE and Britain are ready to arm rebels in Syria, even without full support from the European Union, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius says. UK government sources said on Thursday that no decision had been taken to seek the lifting of...

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Govt lets down defence victims: taskforce

THE head of a taskforce investigating alleged abuses in the defence force says he's disillusioned with the federal government's failure to act on claims - and thinks victims may be too. DLA Piper taskforce leader Gary Rumble told a Senate Foreign...

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Fourth Bulgarian man sets himself on fire

A BULGARIAN man is in critical condition after setting himself on fire outside the presidency, authorities say, in the fourth such case in a recent wave of protests. The 51-year-old man was hospitalised with 25 per cent burns after dousing himself...

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Dementia hospital stays, costs up: study

DEMENTIA care models must be tweaked to stem rising costs and decrease hospital stay times, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) says. A new study into the costs of caring for dementia patients and the amount of time they spend...

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Tunisian MPs approve new government

TUNISIA'S MPs have approved a new government formed to pull the country out of a deep political and economic crisis, as an impoverished vendor died after setting himself alight. Premier-designate Ali Larayedh's broadly based coalition of his own...

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Greenland to get first woman PM

GREENLAND is set to have its first woman prime minister after the social democratic Siumut party won general elections on a vow to tax foreign mining companies, final results show. Aleqa Hammond's party garnered 42.8 per cent of the vote compared...

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Rate of temporary work concerning: ACTU

EDS: Not for use before 0001 AEDT Wednesday, March 13 CANBERRA, March 13 AAP - Australia has overtaken recession-hit Spain as the OECD country with the second-highest rate of temporary workers. Empirica Research to be released on Wednesday...

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Take or leave media reform, says Conroy

THE government's proposed media reforms are a "take it or leave it" package which, if not passed by the end of next week, will be dumped, says Communications Minister Stephen Conroy. Senator Conroy said there will be no bartering or cross-deals...

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Cost cuts or peril, Access tells retailers

EDS: Not for use before 0001 AEDT Wednesday, March 13 By Colin Brinsden, AAP Economics Correspondent CANBERRA, March 13 AAP - Short-term gains from discounting which come at the expense of profit margins have made it more important than ever...

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Austria marks 75yrs since Nazi invasion

AUSTRIA solemnly marked Tuesday 75 years since German troops crossed the border unopposed on the early hours of March 12, 1938 and "annexed" Hitler's native country into the Third Reich. "Already on the evening of March 11 swastika flags were...

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Portugal in worst recession in 37 years

PORTUGAL'S statistics agency says the economy contracted 3.2 per cent last year - its sharpest annual downturn since 1975. Portugal is enacting broad debt-reduction measures, including tax hikes and pay and pension cuts, in return for a 78 billion...

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Latest Newspoll gives Gillard a lift

MAYBE Julia Gillard's week spent in Sydney's western suburbs wasn't quite the disaster it was painted because the latest poll shows she is back in the lead as preferred prime minister and Labor's primary vote has lifted. The Newspoll, conducted...

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Sharks, manta rays win trade protection

SEVERAL shark species and the manta ray have won international trade protection in a move hailed by conservationists as a breakthrough in efforts to save them from being wiped out by overfishing. The deal at a major wildlife conference in Bangkok...

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Frenchman to proclaim new pope to world

THE honour of announcing the next leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics will fall to French cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, who will proclaim the outcome of the conclave from St Peter's Basilica. The Bach-loving former Vatican diplomat will...

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Karzai alleges US, Taliban colluding

AFGHAN President Hamid Karzai has accused the Taliban and the US of working in concert to convince Afghans that violence will worsen if most foreign troops leave - an allegation the top American commander in Afghanistan rejected as "categorically...

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Seven children among 8 dead in German fire

AN early-morning fire at an apartment building in southwestern Germany has left eight people dead, seven of them children, police say. Three other people were injured in the fire in Backnang, a town near Stuttgart, and taken to hospitals. Police...

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Queen delivers Commonwealth Day message

THE Queen has promoted the theme of opportunity through enterprise in her Commonwealth Day message for 2013. She said the theme was a celebration of achievements, "particularly those that may have seemed challenging, daunting or even impossible...

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Voters give Napthine a tick as Vic premier

HE'S been in the job less than a week but the latest poll shows Denis Napthine is the preferred premier of Victoria. The Fairfax Media/Nielsen poll, taken on Friday and Saturday in the wake of Ted Baillieu's shock decision to quit as premier,...

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