3:21 PM AEST | A lost baby humpback whale - desperate to find its mother - has reportedly been trying to suckle another boat in Pittwater.
11:41 AM AEST | Shot man who died outside a Sydney hospital was Khaled Dib.
20/08/2008 | Children believed to be sleeping in a Maitland dumpster were playing games.
20/08/2008 | Brendan Nelson shifts gear over nuclear energy by urging the Government to make the power source part of Australia's energy future.
20/08/2008 | MALCOLM RIPPER lived near the snowfields and knew a perfect day for skiing when he saw one.
20/08/2008 | A MAN accused of defrauding the NSW Fire Brigades of $1.5 million was, until Monday, a project manager on $43 million worth of Federal Government construction projects for Aborigines in Redfern.
20/08/2008 | It's an enormous challenge but Luke Hunter believes there is hope for the carnivores he has devoted his life to, writes Nick Galvin.
20/08/2008 | A DISPUTE is brewing between Sydney FC and former player David Zdrilic, who is fighting for injury compensation through the players' union even though he has been released from his contract and hasn't played for the club since just before last Christmas.
20/08/2008 | INSPECTIONS of Pakistani cricket grounds by ICC officials continued yesterday despite ongoing speculation the Champions Trophy could be shifted to Sri Lanka, while confusion reigned after the resignat...
20/08/2008 | TWO NSW Fire Brigades project managers had used privately operated companies to tender for fire brigade work and abused their position in the fire brigades to submit their own tenders and extract profits of 40 per cent or more, the Independent Commission Against Corruption was told yesterday.
20/08/2008 | THERE'S not a lot of action at the Urban Farm at the moment, trapped as we are in the icy bowels of winter. Time then, to reflect on matters spiritual and turn our attention to: The Lawn.
20/08/2008 | THE Federal Government has appealed to the minor Senate parties for help after the Coalition confirmed yesterday that it would block budget measures worth $4 billion over the next four years.
20/08/2008 | EL SEGUNDO'S emphatic victory in the 2007 Cox Plate was rated the best individual performance of last season in the ANZ Classifications, released yesterday. The Colin Little-trained gelding, which won't be seen this spring due to injury, returned a rating of 123, the same as that handed out by the World Thoroughbred Racehorse Rankings.
20/08/2008 | TAX credits for employers who offered paid parental leave would be a less discriminatory way of helping families juggle caring and work responsibilities, a forum on maternity leave heard yesterday.
20/08/2008 | GUARDS shot dead a man during a bungled robbery of an armoured car in Parramatta last night.
20/08/2008 | IN 1998 the lid was lifted on the corrupt world of NSW railways, revealing that supplying prostitutes could win you a contract, fake medical certificates signed by a dead doctor would get you a day off work, and you could claim overtime while playing golf.
20/08/2008 | For the Australian Opals, the Olympic competition is a little like Michael Phelps's assault on swimming history.
20/08/2008 | Nicole Kuepper has developed a simple, cheap way of producing solar cells in a pizza oven.
20/08/2008 | THE Reserve Bank considered the case for an "early reduction" in interest rates at its board meeting two weeks ago amid concern the economy may be heading for a "deeper and more persistent slowing".
20/08/2008 | IT WAS a case of no one mention the war when Brendan Nelson opened his forum on teenage binge drinking at Parliament.