National News
12:28 PM AEDT | Embattled Australian cricketer Michael Clarke has spoken out for the first time about his much publicised departure from his team’s tour of New Zealand.
12:26 PM AEDT | Lara Bingle was a no-show at court this morning as a 15-year-old boy faced charges in connection with her Aston Martin.
12:24 PM AEDT | Australia faces a housing affordability ''time bomb'' - primed by a dysfunctional planning system, a chronic undersupply of homes, and unrealistic expectations from buyers, according to the chief of one of the nation's largest homebuilders.
4:00 AM AEDT | PERTH teenager Blair Evans upset her more fancied rivals to win the women's 200 metres freestyle final on the opening night of the Australian Swimming Championships, doubling as the Commonwealth Games trials.
4:00 AM AEDT | DOREEN D'ARCY never missed watching her grandson Nick race. She would always call afterwards to offer support and let him know she had been watching on television. There was no call last night, there won't be one today, but you sense Doreen was still watching last night.
4:00 AM AEDT | HAYDEN FOXE won't be the most influential player on the pitch in Saturday night's grand final but he will be the most influential player in the dressing room, as Sydney FC try to overcome the loss of key veterans Steve Corica and John Aloisi for the biggest game of the season - and beyond.
4:00 AM AEDT | DANNY NIKOLIC finally handed over his mobile phone to Racing Victoria stewards yesterday after being told he risked his licence if he refused. The leading rider was fined $5000 for his initial refusal, despite the stewards' call for a six-month suspension.
4:00 AM AEDT | WELLINGTON: A sports psychologist has flown to Wellington to help Michael Clarke and the Australian team prepare for the first Test against New Zealand.
4:00 AM AEDT | David Beckham's Achilles injury is a setback too far in an era when pace is key, writes Henry Winter.
4:00 AM AEDT | Lote Tuqiri hit the ground running at the SFS on Monday night, and his fellow players were more than impressed, reports Greg Prichard.
4:00 AM AEDT | Hostilities between Michael Darby and the Christian Democratic Party's Fred Nile have escalated, with Darby accusing Nile of misleading the public over a controversial anti-Muslim survey distributed during last year's Bradfield byelection.
4:00 AM AEDT | SYDNEY'S bikie scene has been through a tumultuous year with the two clubs that started the outcry by brawling at the airport at the forefront.
4:00 AM AEDT | A NIGHTCLUB manager and member of an outlaw motorcycle gang was allegedly killed over money owed to Fadi Ibrahim, police allege.
4:00 AM AEDT | POLICE are preparing to lodge their first application to have one of the state's bikie gangs declared a criminal organisation, possibly within days.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE courts have delivered another win to former Guantanamo Bay inmate Mamdouh Habib, declaring that he was defamed by the News Ltd columnist Piers Akerman and paving the way for a hefty payout.
4:00 AM AEDT | A GROUP of homeless men who sleep at Bondi Pavilion have taken their fight against Waverley Council and the state government to the highest court in Australia.
4:00 AM AEDT | BARACK OBAMA may be on the nose at home but he is as popular as ever in Australia and is assured of a warm welcome next week.
4:00 AM AEDT | HAVING initially denied any wrongdoing, the Northern Territory employer of a Filipino 457 visa worker killed when he fell out of a utility has pleaded guilty to workplace violations and been fined $60,000.
4:00 AM AEDT | JOSEPH MOURAD gives clients their ''dream hair'' every day. In the past two years the hair stylist has seen demand for hair extensions grow ''like crazy'' as more women sought instantly thicker and longer tresses by attaching human hair to their heads.
4:00 AM AEDT | ACROSS the tables of established Sydney restaurants, in university chemistry labs, and on trips to mainland China, federal police allege a drug syndicate plotted to import hundreds of litres of chemicals to be used to make ''ice'' and ecstasy.