PROSPECTIVE homebuyers should buy now before Sydney prices start to climb again with signs of a recovery in the housing market looming, property insiders claim.

HOLLYWOOD actress Sandra Bullock and her husband escaped unhurt after a head-on crash with a drunk driver in the US overnight.

NINE Finnish tourists were killed and 22 injured when their coach careered off a motorway in southern Spain.

HARDLINE Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr today threatened to declare "open war" if the crackdown by Iraqi and US forces against his loyalists is not stopped.

An 18-YEAR-OLD woman has been charged with a string of offences including police assault and drink driving after an incident north of Brisbane early today.

EMERGENCY crews are searching parts of the NSW Central Coast for three missing teenage boys.

BECOMING a republic is just a matter of time, Seven Network boss Kerry Stokes says.

ISRAELI air strikes killed five Hamas gunmen in the northern Gaza Strip today, hours after militants from the Islamist group drove bomb-laden vehicles into an Israeli border crossing.

A BUILDING accommodating a second-hand building supplies company went up in flames in Melbourne's outer-east overnight.

WPT Enterprises, Inc., operators of the World Poker Tour, announced today the settlement of a lawsuit brought against it by several big-name poker players. The action, which focused on the player release form used by the World Poker...

The new seasonal service will complement the airline's existing daily Washington flight

The problem: People living in low-density areas far from a city centre rely more on their cars. The solution: The New Urbanism Movement. New Urbanism is a fancy term describing a growing interest in urban landscapes designed to make car

For efficiency's sake GM's electric car will look a little tamer than the concept car, but still no Prius. WARREN, Mich. (CNNMoney.com) -- General Motors is on track to begin production of the Chevrolet Volt in 2010, according to GM

Record oil of $117 a barrel calls for a demand response and a supply response, but for now there is little to stop prices heading still higher, the deputy executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Saturday.

Car-dependent communities, the greatest misallocation of resources in history, have no future -- but that's just one of the shocks the global oil crisis is going to bring The fog of cluelessness that hangs over North America about the gathering

Bloomberg) -- Saudi Arabia, facing calls from oil- consuming nations to pump more crude, has no plans to raise output because increased supply wouldn't damp record prices, Argus reported, citing Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi. Adding the country's spare supplies would

MEXICO CITY — The scene inside the lower house of Congress here on Friday morning resembled a college political rally more than a legislative chamber. A giant tarp dragged over the dais was painted with the word "CLOSED." Chairs blockaded

Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, (MEND) has warned oil companies working along the coastal region of Nigeria to be ready for war, just as it said the military was not in a position to protect them. MEND