A woman has been swept to her death in raging floodwaters in south-east Queensland.

Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens says the nation has ample scope to tackle the difficult global downturn.

The Australian share market has followed Wall Street into a slide with expectations remaining low for the day's trade.

Wall Street hit levels not seen since 2003 with the Dow Jones industrial average falling below 8,000 points.

Oil prices are falling in a market worried over the slowing global economy and its negative impact on energy demand.

Soft drink makers have told an inquiry TV junk food ads don't make kids fat, but psychologists say advertising influences kids.

An appeal has been launched to help the fiancee and family of the father and children who drowned at Tathra Wharf on Tuesday.

Barack Obama has chosen former US Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle to overhaul the US healthcare system.

The company operating the Saudi super-tanker seized by pirates off Somalia is silent on reported negotiations for a ransom.

Eight suspected pirates caught by British Armed forces last week have been handed over to Kenyan authorities.

A woman has received the world's first tailor-made trachea transplant, grown by seeding a donor organ with her own stem cells.

The Salvation Army have launched a project aimed at cutting high suicide rates in the bush.

Supermarket chains could take advantage of flagged changes to the GROCERYchoice website by manipulating prices.

League star Greg Bird has had one of his charges downgraded.

Westpac has unveiled its senior executive line-up after merging with St George Bank.

Britain has announced plans to outlaw prostitution involving women forced into the sex trade through illegal trafficking.

The HMAS Sydney and the German raider Kormoran wrecks are to have permanent protection under the Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says further measures may be needed to get credit flowing throughout the economy.

Thousands of ethnic Albanians have rallied in Kosovo against a UN plan they say will split the country along ethnic lines.

The US has condemned al-Qaeda number two Ayman Zawahiri for calling president-elect Barack Obama a 'house negro'.

Volvo has cut 130 jobs at its Brisbane commercial vehicles factory.

The federal government could use more taxpayer money to prop up a second childcare provider.