(AAP) - Political hostilities were set aside on Monday as politicians came together to mourn victims of the devastating Victorian bushfires.

(AAP) - The massive job of cleaning up the flood ravaged town of Ingham will begin in earnest on Tuesday, as river levels begin to drop in north Queensland.

Saturday's horror fire weather has the potential to kill and Victorians should be on
alert for arsonists, Premier John Brumby warns.

The head of Australia's Family Court says relatives of the young girl thrown from
Melbourne's West Gate Bridge did not take their concerns about the child's safety to
the court.

Karrie Webb didn't expect her call to Australia's young golfers to lift their games
to be taken up quite so quickly.

The Veronicas have cracked the US Top 20 with their hit single Untouched, which
reached number 17 in the Billboard Top 100 this week.

Professor Ross Garnaut may be trying to cut Australia's greenhouse gas emissions,
but the paper on which his report was printed came from Italy.

The Victorian government continues to defend the state's rail system, despite
documents revealing the network is rundown and buckling under the heat.

Victoria faces a never-seen-before bushfire risk on Saturday, with conditions
expected to be worse than those that led to the deadly Ash Wednesday fires of 1983.

ISLAMABAD, Nov 28 (APP): President Asif Ali Zardari rejecting the claims of Pakistan’s involvement in Mumbai terrorist attacks, said Friday Pakistan could neither gain anything not the democratic g