Toyota Australia is recalling hybrid Prius models as part of a worldwide program to
fix faulty brakes.

He's back.
Following months of uncertainty, Willie Mason officially announced his NRL return at
Townsville on Tuesday after accepting a lifeline from North Queensland.

A federal Liberal MP has been rebuked for leaking to a newspaper a confidential
Defence Department briefing to a parliamentary committee.

An Australian pro-Palestine activist says she was arrested at gunpoint, falsely
imprisoned and denied food and phone contact for 15 hours over what Israeli

Former Socceroos coach Graham Arnold will take over the helm of the Central Coast
Mariners with current coach Lawrie McKinna moving into a new off-field role at the
A-League club.

Queensland billionaire Clive Palmer has backed down from claims he signed a $US60
billion ($A69.38 billion) export coal contract with a Chinese group, saying the

Despite promising before the last election to fix the country's public hospitals,
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the real health debate is only starting now.

Mathew Stokes' AFL career is on hold for at least the next three months as the
Geelong forward faces his cocaine charges.

There was little subterfuge as the NRL went into counterattack mode on Monday in a
bid to protect its western Sydney heartland from the raids of the AFL.

Boundary umpires will have limited power to pay free kicks in the NAB Cup as the AFL
tries to crack down on holding at stoppages.