A Qantas plane suffering engine troubles has been forced to land in Bangkok, hours after another plane plummeted 8000m during an emergency descent.

As Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan issued a grim warning of price hikes for food caused by the Queensland floods, Premier Anna Bligh moved to eliminate confusion over payments from her disaster relief

A new reconstruction authority will decide if infrastructure, and even entire
suburbs, should be rebuilt in flood-hit parts of Queensland.

John Tyson takes comfort from the fact his son will forever lie in the symbolic
embrace of his mother.

Record flooding in Victoria could continue into next week, as more communities in
the north and northwest of the state remain on alert for rising waters.

Labor backbencher Kelvin Thomson has told his boss Prime Minister Julia Gillard that
he does not want the number of skilled migrants in Australia to increase.

The federal government has told India's foreign minister it won't lift the ban on
uranium sales to the South Asian giant.

A train driver choked back tears at an inquest which heard there was nothing he
could do to avoid a crash with a truck which killed 11 people.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague has called for Commonwealth nations to take
a stronger role in world affairs, as the UK seeks to boost its presence in

Refugee advocates say hundreds of detainees at the Curtin Detention Centre are
hunger striking to protest processing delays, but the Immigration Department says
only 20 to 30 are.