(AAP) - The Queen has added day trips to Brisbane and Melbourne in late October to the 10-day itinerary for her first visit to Australia in almost six years.

(AAP)- Rob Horne's Rugby World Cup is all but over and Pat McCabe's could be too after Australia's crippling injury toll rose to desperate levels during Friday night's 67-5 thrashing of the USA in

(AAP) - Australian Rugby League coach Tim Sheens is anxiously awaiting a full medical report on captain Darren Lockyer ahead of next month's clash with New Zealand and the Four Nations tour.

(AAP) - Forty-two people have been nabbed for drug offences at the Parklife Music Festival, with police saying it's disappointing music fans aren't heeding their warnings.

(AAP) - Geelong star Steve Johnson will leave a "massive hole" in the Cats' AFL grand final attack if he can't overcome a knee injury, fellow forward James Podsiadly has conceded.

(AAAP) - Paul Douglas Peters, the accused hoax collar bomb extortionist, has been extradited under guard back to Australia and will remain in custody for another eight weeks.

(AAP) - The focus of political debate in Australia should be on the impact of the global economical situation rather than the leadership of the Labor government, Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd says.

(AAP) - Treasurer Wayne Swan has warned world financial leaders more reforms need to be implemented in Europe and the US to stop the global economic from "falling off the edge again".

(AAP) - Australian officials have discovered an extra 50 people hidden aboard a boat intercepted by the Navy and brought to Christmas Island.

(AAP) - The major parties' response to the arrival of two boatloads of asylum seekers overnight reflects a dismal display of leadership, the Australian Greens say.