KATE Ritchie`s emotional year has culminated with a second Gold Logie Award, which she took home together with a Silver for most popular TV Actress, her third in a row
SPENDING cuts in next week`s Federal Budget will punish struggling families and create no real downward pressure on inflation, the federal opposition says
SUPPORTERS of West Australian Opposition Leader Troy Buswell are confident a proposed leadership spill against him sparked by a chair sniffing scandal will not succeed
THE Rudd Government has agreed to give Queensland an extra $100 million to train doctors in the state, on top of any health funds already allocated to the states
BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown said today he was confident his Labour Party would recover from a disastrous performance in local elections and rejected suggestions he should resign
JOSEF Fritzl, the Austrian who admitted to imprisoning and abusing his daughter for 24 years, should not go to jail as he is mentally ill, his lawyer said in comments published in Germany
NEW Orleans Hornets held San Antonio`s Tim Duncan to five points and raced to a 101-82 home victory over the Spurs in the opening game of the NBA Western Conference second-round series
GRANT Hackett has been sensationally disqualified from the 10km Olympic qualifying event after being chewed up and spat out in a "vicious" race in Seville
THE Western Bulldogs broke their Sydney hoodoo and maintained their undefeated AFL record with a come-from-behind win over the Swans at the Sydney Cricket Ground
MELBOURNE posted the second biggest halftime comeback in AFL history, the club`s best ever fightback, and a remarkable first win of the season over Fremantle by six points at the MCG
VALENTINO Rossi rode his Yamaha to victory at the China MotoGP to snap a seven-race winless streak, beating Spain`s Dani Pedrosa and Casey Stoner of Australia
BURMA`S military government declared disaster areas in five states today after a large tropical cyclone pounded the Irrawaddy delta region and killed at least four people in Rangoon
KATE Ritchie`s emotional year has culminated with a second Gold Logie Award, which she took home together with a Silver for most popular TV Actress, her third in a row
NEW Orleans Hornets held San Antonio`s Tim Duncan to five points and raced to a 101-82 home victory over the Spurs in the opening game of the NBA Western Conference second-round series
GRANT Hackett has been sensationally disqualified from the 10km Olympic qualifying event after being chewed up and spat out in a "vicious" race in Seville
THE Western Bulldogs broke their Sydney hoodoo and maintained their undefeated AFL record with a come-from-behind win over the Swans at the Sydney Cricket Ground
ST KILDA coach Ross Lyon says captain Nick Riewoldt could be missing for up to eight weeks with a knee injury
SOUTH Sydney shrugged off another horror week to claim their first win of the NRL season against North Queensland
MELBOURNE posted the second biggest halftime comeback in AFL history, the club`s best ever fightback, and a remarkable first win of the season over Fremantle by six points at the MCG
VALENTINO Rossi rode his Yamaha to victory at the China MotoGP to snap a seven-race winless streak, beating Spain`s Dani Pedrosa and Casey Stoner of Australia
