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Up to 500 properties around Shepparton in northern Victoria could be isolated by floodwaters tonight.

A police officer who shot at his neighbours' houses in front of their children has been confronted by the victims in the Adelaide District Court.

Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott have been making their final pleas to the three independents MPs as Australia waits to find out who will form the country's next government.

Queensland criminologist David Bradford says he is concerned about a promise given by US authorities that they will not pursue a death penalty in the Gabe Watson case.

There has been a big die-off of kingfish raised by Eyre Peninsula-based aquaculture company Clean Seas.

A homophobic slur on Twitter has cost swimming glamour girl Stephanie Rice her sponsorship deal with Jaguar.

Authorities say it is been an orderly exit of people from Birdsville this morning as thousands head out of the town which has been swamped in a quagmire.

Two policewomen have been injured when they were hit by a car at Campbelltown in Sydney's south-west this morning.

Police are doorknocking homes and businesses in far north Queensland as part of an investigation in the bashing and sexual assault of a 20-year-old German tourist at a Cairns school.

The communications watchdog has found a Sam Newman segment on Channel Nine's The AFL Footy Show breached the commercial television code and provoked severe ridicule.

The man accused of killing three-year-old Indian boy Gurshan Singh, has pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

Mushrooms with additional vitamin D are about to go on the market.

There are fears an outbreak of dengue fever in New Delhi is getting worse with just a month to go until the Commonwealth Games.

Britain's parliament, police, the press and one of the prime minister's most trusted advisers are all implicated in an alleged phone hacking scandal.

The son of an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning says he fears she will be executed shortly after the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan ends this week.

The construction sector's health waned for a fourth consecutive month in August, as fiscal stimulus continued to pull back.

A good samaritan, who rescued a man who had fallen onto train tracks at Sydney's busy Town Hall Station last Friday, says no-one else was around to help.

A man has been found guilty of stealing almost $60,000 from a Top End pub by using a plaster cast on his leg to smash a window.

The Transport Workers Union wants police to investigate trucking companies after a drug testing blitz on drivers.

A search has resumed for a 15-year-old boy missing in the New South Wales snowy mountains.