Obama won't speak to BP chief
US president Barack Obama says there is no point in him speaking to BP's chief executive, as oil continues to leak from a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico.
Soldiers' bodies begin journey home
The bodies of two Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan will begin their journey home today.
Sea Shepherd casts Bethune adrift
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has cut its links with anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune after he carried a bow and arrows during confrontations with Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean.
Alleged rogue trader faces court
Former financial market trader Jerome Kerviel has gone on trial in Paris accused of one of history's biggest bank frauds.
Rudd heads west for talks with miners
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will hold crucial talks on the mining tax in resource-rich Western Australia today.
