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French mother Dominique Cottrez has been charged with the murder of eight of her newborn babies.

It is Australia's most popular team sport for women, but now men's netball is catching on.

Mark Arbib is a true believer in 'whatever it takes', writes Deborah Snow.

Two primly dressed ladies in pink carrying a pair of budgie smugglers and a stuffed budgie shadowed the Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, across Melbourne yesterday, questioning his stance on climate change, the mining tax and his attitude to women.

How a foreign posting went horribly wrong for two Jetstar executives. Matt O'Sullivan reports.

Labor has asked Kevin Rudd to campaign for the party outside his own seat.

The fragile truce between the Left and Right factions of the NSW government has been demolished.

At the stroke of midnight thousands of Apple fans surged into telco stores to get their hands on the new iPhone 4.

Former prime minister Kevin Rudd is unmanly and like a snake for leaking a damaging story about his successor Julia Gillard, a former Labor leader says.

Quade Cooper cops brunt of SANZAR's unfairness after appeal is dismissed putting him out of Bledisloe Cup opener.

Master Chefs, pop sensation Kelly Rowland and a lavish party at the Ivy nightspot - telcos in Sydney are pulling out all the stops to pander to iPhone 4 line queuers ahead of the launch at midnight tonight.

The iPhone 4 goes on sale at midnight but one Australian picked up these two at 11am today.

Call that an election policy? This is an election policy! The day the leaders went gangbusters on crime.

Mark Goodrum survived the Kempsey bus crash with bad injuries, now he's been shot on a Dee Why bus.

Time for Julia to give Kevin a call as Wayne declares there is no stopping leaks?

Sydney queues form for the iPhone 4 launch - and telcos are laying on celebrity entertainment.

What a difference 24 hours makes in the life of a prime minister.

Doctors should call people "fat" rather than "obese" to make it clear that they needed to lose weight, a British health minister said on Wednesday.

In the history of empires the end is abrupt, and those that rely on them need to be ready, says Niall Ferguson.

Peter Hartcher The paint of Julia Gillard's bright and shiny prime ministerial image is cracking and peeling.