AAP - Wests Tigers backrower Liam Fulton will miss just one NRL trial match after benefiting from a double discount on a dangerous throw charge.

AAP - The states won big changes to the commonwealth's hospitals plan during negotiations in Canberra and a final agreement should be approved by mid-year, West Australian Premier Colin Barnett say

AAP - A search continues for an Australian pilot missing, feared dead, after his helicopter crashed into the sea off a remote Papua New Guinea island.

AAP - Dual Olympic gold medallist Michael Klim admits he risks flopping in his return to competitive swimming and has no expectations.

AAP - A man jailed over his role in starving five children in Adelaide is appealing his conviction.

AAP - Songstress Renee Geyer is singing the blues after her second car crash in four months.

(AAP) - One of three men injured in another shooting in Sydney's west is believed to be a member of the Ibrahim family, some of whose members have been the target of gunfire.

A "cold-blooded assassin" who's been on the run for 15 years has been caught in north Queensland.

Football Federation Australia has played down the chances of Gold Coast United being stripped of a home A-League final because of the much-maligned Skilled Park playing surface.

Plenty of his troops fell around him but Indigenous All Stars captain Johnathan Thurston breathed a sigh of relief after getting through his first match of 2011 unscathed.