So in the past 2-3 weeks, I've seen the price of diesel go up roughly 10%! WTF mate We're now paying roughly $1.749 for a single litre of diesel. You can save another $0.08/L if you shop at certain grocery...

FOOD prices are soaring, a wealthier Asia is demanding better food and farmers can't keep up. In short, the world faces a food crisis and in some places it's already boiling over.

ENERGY costs could spiral up to 10 times current levels within a decade, Reserve Bank board member and ex-Woolworths chief Roger Corbett has warned.

THE central bank has today left official interest rates on hold at 7.25 per cent after its monthly board meeting as economic growth slows here and abroad, taking pressure off inflation.

A YOUNG girl is lucky to be alive after she was struck by an out-of-control car allegedly driven by a 13-year-old girl on a joyride.

VICTORIAN residents have been warned to take safety precautions, with high winds well over 100km/h expected across the state from early today.

CHRIS Murphy, the lawyer who won big on the horses and was reputed to be a high-rolling gambling associate of the late Kerry Packer, has taken a massive tumble.

Technology giant IBM has been temporarily suspended from seeking new business with US federal agencies, amid an investigation into possible procurement irregularities.

THE collapse of Opes Prime has widened into an investigation of false accounting of six key accounts worth $200 million to help clients to avoid margin calls.

SHAREHOLDERS have been selling down their Telstra T3 shares ahead of the May 29 deadline for the final instalment payment.

NEXT month's Budget will involve some pain but the Government is examining whether it should introduce paid maternity leave.

Xydias accused of drugging, raping women Filmed rapes, told police it was consensual Many alleged victims had no idea until police told them

QANTAS will have $200 million wiped from its earnings when V Australia becomes fully operational, analysts believe.

HUMANS are causing such unprecedented climatic change and mass extinctions it is creating a new geological age, according to a leading environmental scientist.

A MAN had his legs severed below the knees in a car crash north of Adelaide after the vehicle hit a kangaroo and went over a bank.

SOUTH Australian Premier Mike Rann says he felt physically sick when he read a report into child sex abuse in the state.

THE SOUTH Australia Government will formally apologise to former state wards who were sexually abused as children, Premier Mike Rann says.

ONE of two homeless men being hunted over the bashing and torture of an Australian tourist in San Diego has been arrested.

A GROUP of school children on a class visit to a court today received the attention of a convicted pedophile who abducted and raped five-year-old girls in two states.

PRIESTS, doctors and teachers sexually abused foster children amid pedophile networks representing a "foul undercurrent" of South Australian society, an inquiry has found.