Top stories Rachel Olding | THE brother of the Queensland flood hero Jordan Rice has been bullied and bashed by other youths apparently because of the media attention his family has received after the disaster. | Georgina Robinson 9:51am | Former federal MP Belinda Neal says the woman who took out a restraining order against her was the one who initiated a confrontation between the two. | | Georgina Robinson 8:09am | A woman and a child who crashed on the Pacific Highway in northern NSW overnight narrowly escaped a second crash when a truck laden with perfume and batteries hit their car and burst into flames. | | Georgina Robinson 9:45am | Three men spent the night clinging to a mooring point in the middle of Sydney's Botany Bay after their boat was damaged last night. | 6:40am | A former South African domestic rugby union player spoke in tongues and pushed his police escort when he appeared in court over three axe murders. | 9:24am | Warriors winger Kevin Locke will be interviewed by New Zealand police over an allegation of sexual assault which he strongly denies, the NRL club said on Friday. | | 6:40am | Malaysian men have extramarital sex because of "wives who neglect their responsibilities" to their husbands, a Malaysian MP has told his country's parliament, outraging women's groups. | | Geesche Jacobsen Legal Affairs | IT WAS a matter of seconds but the judge kept replaying them over and over again in his chambers for an entire morning. | 8:54am | Treasurer Wayne Swan says takeover proposal by the Singapore exchange was not in Australia's national interest. | Phillip Coorey | THE Gillard government will try to head off a fight with the powerful club and hotel sectors today as mining and energy heavyweights step up their campaign over the proposed carbon tax. | 9:23am | Eva Longoria shared more than the recipes in her new cookbook with David Letterman when a button on her low-cut jacket popped out during his late-night talk show. | Nathan Olivarez-Giles 8:36am | Sebastian Thrun is on a mission to get people out of the driver's seat. | Justin Bieber: Never Say Never was a revelation, writes George Palathingal. | 8:03am | NASA is studying a surprising cosmic burst at the centre of a distant galaxy that has burned for more than a week, longer than astronomers have ever seen before, the US space agency said on Thursday. | Kate Mcclymont | THE Parramatta halfback Brad Murray has emerged as a key witness in the case against his manager and flatmate, Sam Ayoub, who has been charged over his alleged involvement in a league match-fixing scandal. | 6:26am | A heavily armed man has entered his former Rio school and opened fire, killing 10 children and wounding 18 people before taking his own life, officials say in a tragedy that has shaken Brazil. | 7:12am | A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake late on Thursday hit the same area of Japan that was ravaged by disaster a month ago, seismologists said, prompting a local tsunami alert. | | 7:48am | A convicted US sex offender has pleaded not guilty to charges of kidnapping and raping a Northern California girl when she was 11 and holding her captive for nearly two decades. | | 7:46am | About 150 African refugees fleeing Libya are feared dead after their boat capsized in stormy weather in the middle of the Mediterranean and choppy seas severely hampered rescue efforts. | | 7:12am | A Somali man who pleaded guilty to piracy has been sentenced to 25 years prison for his role in boarding a merchant ship and holding the vessel and its crew hostage for 71 days, the US Justice Department said on Thursday. | | | Advertisement  In Pictures Advertisement  Multimedia How people die, and whether we are doing the right thing by them. |
