National News
12:07 PM AEDT | She was left broken-hearted when denied the opportunity to represent Australia in shot put and long jump at the Beijing Summer Paralympics in 2008, but Jessica Gallagher spent her 24th birthday on Sunday claiming bronze in the women's vision-impaired slalom event at the Vancouver Winter Paralympics.
11:27 AM AEDT | A VICTORIAN man was forced to leave his trapped diving partner to drown in a sinkhole while scuba diving in a South Australian cave.
11:11 AM AEDT | Australian cricket vice-captain Michael Clarke was left decidedly unimpressed this morning after learning a Channel Seven reporter and cameraman had booked themselves onto his Qantas flight to New Zealand.
10:41 AM AEDT | Fernando Alonso led home a Ferrari 1-2 at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday.
9:20 AM AEDT | Blazing knocks from Adam Gilchrist and Andrew Symonds have helped the defending champion Deccan Chargers to a 31-run Indian Premier League win over the Chennai Super Kings.
7:37 AM AEDT | Wayne Rooney fired Manchester United back to the top of the Premier League as his double strike inspired a 3-0 win over Fulham, while Adam Johnson's first Manchester City goal rescued a 1-1 draw at Sunderland on Sunday.
4:00 AM AEDT | CHAMPIONSHIP leader Jamie Whincup's team launched a blistering attack on V8 Supercars rules after stewards punished him for a safety problem yesterday.
4:00 AM AEDT | TWO YEARS and two weeks after being diagnosed with a brain tumour, former Wallaby Julian Huxley completed one of the most remarkable sporting comebacks yesterday when he played his first game of rugby for the Brumbies Runners against the Junior Waratahs.
4:00 AM AEDT | WELLINGTON: On the day Steven Smith became the second-youngest winner of the Steve Waugh Medal, Ricky Ponting revealed the reason behind the all-rounder's exclusion from Australia's one-day team for the tour of New Zealand was a desire to see him push his Test claims in the Sheffield Shield.
4:00 AM AEDT | SYDNEY FC marquee striker John Aloisi looks likely to be cruelly denied a place in the grand final after straining his hamstring in the 4-2 preliminary final win over Wellington Phoenix on Saturday night.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE Waratahs are set to lose the services of their most-capped hooker, with Adam Freier this week expected to become the Melbourne Rebels' highest-profile signing to date.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE more things stay the same, the more they change.
4:00 AM AEDT | The former general manager of Wollongong City Council, Rod Oxley, has a black mark against his name courtesy of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, but that has not stopped him lecturing other local government types on corruption prevention.
4:00 AM AEDT | A SIMULATED mosque was created in a tent to help ease suspicion of Islam in a celebration of Australia's cultural diversity at Darling Harbour yesterday.
4:00 AM AEDT | A BIG environmental group will buy water on the open market to direct flows to wetlands in the Murray-Darling Basin that have dried up because of poor irrigation.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE Fair Work Ombudsman has warned backpackers about how to defend their rights after revelations that fruit pickers have been abused, denied water and paid a fraction of what they are owed.
4:00 AM AEDT | SOME epileptics should have their fitness to drive decided by an RTA-run expert panel rather than the ''unsafe'' option of leaving it to their treating doctor, neurologists say.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE Greens' hold on a balance of power in next Saturday's Tasmanian election appears to be strengthening.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE Treasurer, Wayne Swan, has promised to release Ken Henry's long-awaited review of the tax system by the budget in May.
4:00 AM AEDT | FEWER homes will be fitted with insulation when the government reinstates its suspended rebate scheme because of the cost of safety measures needed to remedy faulty installations already made, the Treasurer, Wayne Swan, says.