New York firefighters have rescued two window washers who were stuck on collapsed scaffolding 69 storeys above the ground at the World Trade Center site in Manhattan. According to reports the cradle malfunctioned on Wednesday shortly before 1pm. Around 2 p.m., rescue workers were seen cutting a hole in a window and pulling the dangling […]

Westpac CEO Gail Kelly has announced that she will retire from her position in February next year. Mrs Kelly will be replaced by Brian Hartzer, the chief executive of Westpac’s Australian Financial Services division. Chairman Lindsay Maxsted said Ms Kelly, who has led Westpac for seven years, made “outstanding contribution” to the bank. “Gail is […]

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Deborra-lee Furness has been named 2015 NSW Australian of the Year for her work as a child advocate and adoption campaigner. The Australian Women’s Weekly October cover girl was announced as the recipient by Premier of NSW, Mike Baird, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney on Monday night. “An actor, director and producer, […]

Police issue a new appeal for information as they step up their search to find missing toddler William Tyrell before Christmas. It has been two months since the three-year-old vanished without a trace from his grandmother’s home on the NSW Mid North Coast on September 12. While hundreds of pieces of information have come through […]

The Abela family from Victoria tell their experience of sharing their home with ghosts! Jason Abela, 35, knew that the two-storey, four-bedroom family home in the outer Melbourne suburb of Sunshine had a supernatural reputation when he purchased it, but he maintained a healthy scepticism. “A few neighbours warned me it was haunted but it didn’t […]

Legendary cricket commentator Richie Benaud has been diagnosed with skin cancer. The 83-year-old ‘voice of cricket’ announced this morning that he is currently undergoing radiation therapy for skin cancer on his forehead and top of his head. “(I’m) coping with it very well, the doctors are pleased,” he told 9NEWS. “I’m going along slowly. The […]

Former Queensland Premier Wayne Goss has died, aged 63. According to the ABC a Goss family spokesman, Russ Morgan, confirmed Mr Goss had died in the early hours of Monday morning. In 1989, Mr Goss became the first Labor premier after 32 years of National Party dominance, much of it under former Premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen. […]

Police have issued a warning to partygoers following the tragic death of a 19-year-old woman at a dance party in Sydney on Saturday.

Aminah Hart and her anonymous sperm donor, Scott Andersen have announced they are engaged! The couple and their two-year-old daughter Leila were holidaying in Thailand when Scott popped the question. The pair’s touching love story made international headlines after Aminah requested to make contact with Scott via the donor-recipient voluntary register and the pair fell […]