The University of Waikato and the University of Bremen in Germany have officially signed an agreement under which the two universities are running joint Master of Science programmes.

According to the SMH: 3G iPhone release 'imminent.' SWEET.

HEALTH insurance giant MBF has unveiled the level of cash bonuses to be paid to each of its 820,000 policy-holders if a mooted billion-dollar company takeover proceeds.

HOMEBUYERS may get a clue as to whether their ballooning mortgage repayments will get even bigger when Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) officials are grilled by politicians today.

PUBLIC housing tenants owing tens of thousands of dollars in rent arrears have been found to own multiple investment properties and run businesses.

THE highly successful $2000 LPG conversion subsidy - aimed at cutting fuel bills for families and helping the environment - faces the axe by Kevin Rudd.

ANZ can continue offloading certain shares it seized last week from Opes Prime after the Federal Court yesterday rejected an application by a group of the collapsed broker's clients for a freeze on further selling.

AUSTRALIA now has a 20-25 per cent chance of falling into a recession over the next 18 months, according to a leading economic forecaster.

TWO men have been charged with attempted murder after a man was stabbed following a fight outside a bank in Melbourne's north-west.

A WOMAN has died, a man is injured and another man is assisting police with inquiries after a car struck a tree on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula.

IF YOU'RE after the highest variable home loan rate in the land, then it's time to step into a St George Bank branch.

A MAN has been found dead in a lake north of Brisbane following a fight between two groups of men.

NEW evidence shows tariffs cost Australians $9.1 billion a year while providing a net benefit to industry of just $1.4 billion.

THE failed Opes Prime built up its business by aggressively courting stockbrokers with high commissions to encourage their clients to give them business.

Sweet! Just got this month's Kinokuniya newsletter, and it looks like Neil Gaiman's coming out in May. I just RSVPed for myself and the Snook to meet him. I suggest you do the same if you're a fan!

Ma Snook's down for the weekend, so last night she and I headed over to gleebooks for the launch of David Stratton's memoirs. The book's called "I Peed on Fellini," and we had a great time listening to the story

A people’s vigil for the River Murray will be held on the Parliament House steps at 12.30pm on Friday, 4th April.Concerned members of the public and politicians are invited to attend.For more information call David Winderlich on 0418 851 916.

ANYONE engaged in wrongdoing during the botched case against Mohamed Haneef is unlikely to be honest at a government inquiry, his lawyer says.

A SO-called conservationist in Tanzania has started up a private zoo and named it after late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin.

OLYMPIAN Lisa Curry Kenny today broke down in tears while revealing the trauma of undergoing heart surgery.