20 minutes ago - A Japanese construction firm has claimed it could execute an out-of-this-world plan to put tourists in space within 40 years by building an elevator that stretches a quarter of the way to the moon.
20 minutes ago - Insurance Australia Group, the country's top car and home insurer, reported an 11% drop in first-half net profit that beat analyst forecasts.
20 minutes ago - "It is Thursday, 23rd of February and it is game on." With those words, spoken by co-host Paul Henry, the Ten Network this morning launched a fourth player in the competitive breakfast TV market.
20 minutes ago - Virgin Australia Holdings says the chase for more business customers is progressing ahead of schedule and has delivered a hefty improvement in first half net profit.
20 minutes ago - Hewlett-Packard Co. forecast fiscal second-quarter profit that missed analysts' estimates as consumers curtail personal-computer buying, doing more computing on smartphones and tablets made by rivals.
20 minutes ago - Insurance Australia Group's first half profit fell by 10.6 per cent after the company paid out $396 million in claims from natural disasters.
20 minutes ago - Treasurer Wayne Swan has labelled Kevin Rudd as a man of "great weaknesses" and says that Labor needs to put an end to the Labor leadership question.
20 minutes ago - TEN Network could be forced to offload assets as advertising slumps, profitability tumbles and the group struggles to repay debt.
20 minutes ago - DANE Swan has laughed off inquiries from his captain Nick Maxwell about rumours sweeping the football world.
20 minutes ago - Inter Milan and Bayern Munich have both lost 1-0 in the first leg of the last 16 of the Champions League competition.
20 minutes ago - THE market looks set to open flat as relief at a massive Greek debt bailout gives way to growing scepticism the deal can really work.
20 minutes ago - A man has been charged after a drug investigation led police to a Bondi house where seven teenagers were found among marijuana and drug paraphernalia, police say.
20 minutes ago - A truck belonging to a transport company under police investigation has been found abandoned on a western Sydney highway.
20 minutes ago - APN News & Media has unveiled a $45.1 million full-year loss as it prepares to expand its outdoor advertising business.
20 minutes ago - Key backers of Julia Gillard have urged her to confront Kevin Rudd over a leadership push as soon as possible.
20 minutes ago - THE Australian dollar has fallen to its lowest level in a month, as the US dollar strengthens and leadership tensions re-ignite in Australia.
20 minutes ago - Just as an internet connection has made our phones smarter and is in the process of making our TVs smarter, soon your glasses may be smarter too, thanks to a project from Google that could be a breakthrough in wearable computing.
20 minutes ago - IRAN is ready to restart oil exports to France and the UK if the countries sign long-term supply deals, Tehran's oil chief said today.
20 minutes ago - German bunds advanced for the first time in a week after European reports showed services and manufacturing unexpectedly contracted this month, boosting demand for the region's safest securities.
0 minutes ago - Divers searching the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship off a Tuscan island have found eight more bodies.
0 minutes ago - The Vic govt has until Thursday to agree to the nurses' union demand or they will start rolling stoppages.
0 minutes ago - POLICE have arrested an allegedly drug affected man who barricaded himself inside a house in Melbourne’s southeast this morning.
0 minutes ago - BREAKING NEWS: KEVIN Rudd has quit as Foreign Minister over a lack of support from Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
0 minutes ago - A new 130b euro ($A162b) bailout deal 'binds Greece to euro' and will shield the country from default.
0 minutes ago - Officials say Exxon Mobil Corp has signed 20-year leases on three major oil fields in Nigeria.
0 minutes ago - TOURISM Tasmania has been attacked for spending a 'pittance' to attract visitors during autumn.
0 minutes ago - Honda to recall nearly 46,000 Odyssey minivans in the US next month to fix a problem with the power tailgate
0 minutes ago - HOBART'S landmark GPO clock was back in action yesterday after two months waiting for repairs.
0 minutes ago - Industry Minister Greg Combet says business leaders haven't contributed to the economic policy debate.
0 minutes ago - POPULAR Hobart band Enola Fall's frontman Joe Nuttall plays live in the Mercury studio, and talks about their upcoming EP.
0 minutes ago - A BLACKMANS Bay butcher got the shock of his life when a customer drove into his shop.
0 minutes ago - Scammers posing as SES volunteers seeking donations are targeting flood-stricken northern NSW, police say.
0 minutes ago - Kevin Rudd says he has never asked any MP to speak to Clubs Australia about pokie machine reforms.
0 minutes ago - JOB losses at TOTE Tasmania will be far higher than initially claimed, insiders say.
0 minutes ago - General Motors Co is in talks about a possible alliance with France's leading car maker PSA Peugeot Citroen
0 minutes ago - WILL Hodgman says customers are confused by the Greens as part of the Tasmanian Government.
0 minutes ago - LADY Gaga will do a fourth show at Rod Laver Arena. She will perform on July 1, after selling out shows there on June 27, 28 and 30.
0 minutes ago - Indonesian police and military forces have opened fire at a prison in Bali after a second night of riots.
0 minutes ago - A research group says millions of Australians have lost or forgotten superannuation funds.
20 minutes ago - Scientists on Wednesday said they had uncovered the first molecular proof that the "biological clock" is linked to a type of sudden, fatal heart attack.
20 minutes ago - Cherie Blair, wife of former British PM Tony Blair, is suing Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper company over phone hacking a lawyer says.
20 minutes ago - BAGRAM, Afghanistan: As thousands of angry Afghans flung stones at NATO's largest military base in Afghanistan, American officials sought to quell a widening furore over what they said was the accidental incineration by US military personnel of copies of the Islamic holy book.
20 minutes ago - Convicted murderer Marco Antonio Bonilla used keys to open locks and a bench to smash down doors as fire raged and prison guards panicked
20 minutes ago - Inmates at Bali's infamous Kerobokan prison spent last night with no running water or electricity and limited food after police earlier stormed in and fired rubber bullets to quell a riot and blaze.
20 minutes ago - LONDON: Greek politicians were racing to implement the savage budget cuts demanded under the terms of the country's emergency bailout as questions emerged over whether the deal could be derailed by arguments over how to fund it.
20 minutes ago - Australia's Ethan Warren has narrowly missed out on a medal in the 3m springboard at the Olympic test event in London.
20 minutes ago - The people of New Zealand's second largest city gathered yesterday to remember, recover and rebuild, writes Laura McQuillan.
20 minutes ago - Divers searching the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship have found eight more bodies including that of a five-year-old girl.
20 minutes ago - LINDSAY Lohan has drawn praise from a judge who said the actress was one court hearing away from putting a long-running drunken driving case behind her.
20 minutes ago - BALI'S infamous Kerobokan prison was in lockdown yesterday after police stormed in and fired rubber bullets to quell a riot that had earlier threatened to set the overcrowded facility ablaze.
20 minutes ago - At least 49 people are dead and 550 injured after a train slammed into the end of the line in a busy Buenos Aires train station.
20 minutes ago - African Union forces in Somalia will be boosted from 12,000 to 17,700 after a UN vote aimed at increasing pressure on militants there.
20 minutes ago - SCAMMERS posing as State Emergency Service (SES) volunteers are targeting flood-stricken northern NSW looking for donations, police say.
20 minutes ago - A TRUCK belonging to a transport company under police investigation has been found abandoned on a western Sydney highway.
20 minutes ago - LONDON: Rupert Murdoch has thrown his weight behind the bid for Scottish independence, a move that has been welcomed by the First Minister of Scotland and independence campaigner, Alex Salmond.
20 minutes ago - WASHINGTON: Women seeking an abortion would be forced to have a procedure described by critics as ''state-sponsored rape'' under a controversial new law set to be passed by an American state this week.
20 minutes ago - ITALIAN police rounded up five mafia suspects overnight accused of extorting pastries from their favourite bakery.
20 minutes ago - Protesters in a remote region of southern Chile trigger controversy by asking neighbouring Argentina to 'adopt' them because they feel forgotten by Chile's government.
20 minutes ago - Police and prison officials at Bali's troubled Kerobokan prison have once again abandoned their post in the face of a fresh outburst of rioting.
57 minutes ago - Scarlett Johansson has been urged to quit making commercials and concentrate on movies.