She was aged 8, assaulted and left for dead in a field. 20 years on, she’s finally received some good news.By smh.com.au

Application allows people to send voice, SMS and email to predetermined list of five family and friends.By smh.com.au

The company that revolutionised vacuum cleaners has created a fan that uses suction.By smh.com.au

MySpace has lost more than half of its market share in the past year.By smh.com.au

Driven higher by on-going shortages, Sydney prices set to surge, report finds.By smh.com.au

Driver claimed she was in a state of automatism during a fatal crash.By smh.com.au

Not one hospital in Sydney is operating at a safe level, with patients waiting longer for elective surgery and in emergency, the latest AMA Public Hospital Report Card says.By smh.com.au

Prime Minister says he agrees with a “universally bleak” report into Australia’s public hospital system.By smh.com.au

Many people stand to lose in the case of the gambler who is suing Crown Casino. As well, it could severely embarrass the Victorian Government.By smh.com.au

SOME of Australia’s top investment bankers could be set to receive lavish bonuses on the back of record handouts from their US parents.By theaustralian.news.com.au

The Indonesian navy says 260 Sri Lankans on board a boat in West Java are no longer able to blow themselves up.By abc.net.au

THE Australian sharemarket rose to a new 12 month high on Wednesday on upbeat consumer confidence and positive company reports.By news.com.au

COOKING stoves capable of being used to blow up a cargo boat containing 253 Sri Lankan asylum-seekers have been confiscated.By theaustralian.news.com.au

A 10-year-old girl praised as hero after the Samoan tsunami has earned herself a new nickname from her classmates back home in New Zealand.By abc.net.au

ITALIAN dictator Benito Mussolini had a brief career as a British secret agent, the Guardian newspaper reported today, quoting research by a Cambridge University historian.By news.com.au

ABC managing director Mark Scott has pilloried plans by media organisations to place news content behind paywalls in a speech tonight.By theaustralian.news.com.au

A man faces an Adelaide court over violent robberies connected to the so-called gang of 49.By abc.net.au

THE Australian dollar continued to soar today, ending the local trading day above 91 US cents for the first time in 14 months following a series of positive global and domestic economic leads.By news.com.au

A MAN has died while protecting his home from a bushfire in Queensland.By news.com.au

THE government will re-write the 21-year-old Privacy Act for the technology age, ending the fragmentation of state laws.By theaustralian.news.com.au