ABC News: Top Stories
A constantly updated selection of the leading Australian and international news from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
- Search continues for missing fishermanSat, 11 Sep 2010 10:59:00 +1000Search planes and boats are combing the north Queensland coast for a missing fisherman.
- Rudd nabs Foreign Affairs portfolioSat, 11 Sep 2010 10:41:00 +1000Prime Minister Julia Gillard's office has confirmed former prime minister Kevin Rudd will be Foreign Minister in the new Government.
- Leaks reveal $9m tobacco blitzSat, 11 Sep 2010 10:03:00 +1000Leaked documents suggest a group supported by tobacco companies will intensify its campaign against plain cigarette packaging this weekend.
- IMF warns of debt menace as recovery slowsSat, 11 Sep 2010 09:50:00 +1000The IMF has warned that high levels of national debt and a still shaky financial sector threaten to derail the global economic recovery.
- Floodwaters recede across VictoriaSat, 11 Sep 2010 09:44:00 +1000Floodwaters are receding across Victoria's north-east, but attention has now turned to Echuca on the New South Wales border.
- Finals-hardened Cats purring again: OttensSat, 11 Sep 2010 09:37:00 +1000Geelong ruckman Brad Ottens says the Cats boast the advantage of finals experience and have gained plenty from having to take the long route to next Friday's preliminary final.
- Clijsters sets up title defenceSat, 11 Sep 2010 08:56:00 +1000Defending champion Kim Clijsters advanced to the US Open final by rallying to defeat US third seed Venus Williams 4-6, 7-6 (7-2), 6-4, running her Flushing Meadows win streak to 20 matches.
- Asylum seekers 'not allowed' to attend schoolSat, 11 Sep 2010 08:18:00 +1000An asylum seeker advocacy group says it wants to know why the Immigration Department is only allowing some of the school-age children detained in Darwin to attend school.
- DiCaprio 'wife' told to keep awaySat, 11 Sep 2010 07:51:00 +1000Leonardo DiCaprio has won a court order that barred a woman who believes she is his wife and is pregnant with his child from coming near him for three years.
- Iran cancels plans to free US hikerSat, 11 Sep 2010 07:32:00 +1000Iran has reportedly cancelled plans to release an American woman who has been imprisoned in Tehran for more than a year.
- Koran burning saga continues as Obama weighs inSat, 11 Sep 2010 07:23:00 +1000US president Barack Obama has again weighed into a controversy over a threat to burn copies of the Koran at a Florida church, saying it would deeply harm America.
- Death toll set to rise in San Francisco blazeSat, 11 Sep 2010 06:34:00 +1000The death toll from a natural gas line explosion in suburban San Francisco stands at four as investigators comb through the wreckage of homes destroyed by the inferno.
- 'No congregation' escaped Belgian sex abuseSat, 11 Sep 2010 06:25:00 +1000A Belgian Catholic Church-backed commission has released harrowing testimony from around 500 cases of alleged sex abuse involving more than 100 victims, 13 of whom were driven to suicide.
- Soldier wounded in AfghanistanSat, 11 Sep 2010 05:05:00 +1000The Defence Department has announced another Australian soldier has been wounded on patrol in Afghanistan.