Sydney has recorded its coldest June night in 61 years, with the western suburbs
shivering under a vast white blanket as the mercury dipped below freezing.

A 90-year-old man from Western Australia charged with assaulting four underage girls
in northern Thailand will seek bail when he appears in court on Wednesday.

Queensland captain Darren Lockyer says Greg Bird's Origin recall to add some grunt,
grit and aggression to NSW has come three games later than he expected.

Fremantle bad boy Michael Johnson is back in favour at the Dockers, with coach Mark
Harvey revealing the 25-year-old will be named in the squad for Saturday's AFL clash

The room fell silent when Jerry Lewis told Sydney's firefighters he'll think of them
every night when he goes to bed.
Then they all laughed.

South Sydney's NRL finals hopes may have been handed a huge blow after in-form
hooker Issac Luke dislocated his shoulder in training on Tuesday.

The body of Perth woman Millie Johnston has been recovered in Ecuador after she fell
to her death in a ravine while on a quad bike tour of waterfalls.

Melburnians shivered through the coldest day in almost two years and the chilliest
June day in a decade as the mercury struggled to get past 10 degrees.

A compensation payment from the West Australian government to the family of an
Aboriginal elder who died of heat stroke in a prison van will help redress the

The federal government's botched Green Loans program was a magnet for every "shark
and shonk" in Australia and the department that oversaw the scheme agrees there were