Real World

'Sweatshops on wheels' driving truckies to drugs: union

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 47 minutes ago

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

Construction falls for fourth straight month

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 53 minutes ago

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

Zebra herd on the move

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 2 hours ago

A controversial zebra herd sculpture on Lake George near Canberra is on the move.

Obama to splash billions on infrastructure projects

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 2 hours ago

US president Barack Obama has announced plans to spend tens of billions of dollars on a huge infrastructure project to create jobs and boost confidence in the American economy.

Syria didn't kill my dad, says Lebanese PM

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 2 hours ago

Lebanon's prime minister has withdrawn an accusation that Syria was to blame for his father's assassination five years ago.

Travolta extortion case dismissed

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 2 hours ago

A judge in the Bahamas has dismissed charges against two people accused of trying to extort $US25 million from John Travolta over his son's death.

New wilderness protection for SA west coast

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 2 hours ago

The Nuyts Archipelago and Investigator Group of Islands on the west coast of South Australia will be afforded the highest level of environmental protection available under state legislation.

Plead guilty for 40pc sentence cut under SA plan

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 3 hours ago

Sentence cuts of up to 40 per cent are being proposed for criminals who plead guilty before a case gets to trial in South Australia.

Fears for 15yo missing in ski-fields

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 3 hours ago

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

Police investigate 'serious assault' at Cairns school

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 3 hours ago

Education Queensland has closed Cairns State High School as police investigate a serious assault at the school overnight.

FTSE posts longest run of gains since June, Wall St closed

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 3 hours ago

Stocks on the key global markets have posted modest rises, with no direction from Wall Street as the New York Stock Exchange was closed for the Labor Day holiday.

Australian growers develop super-pineapple

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 3 hours ago

It has taken years, but finally Australia has a pineapple it can call its own.

2010 to be Afghanistan's deadliest year

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 3 hours ago

Foreign forces in Afghanistan are facing their deadliest year yet, with the death toll already passing 500, as compared to 521 for all of last year.

Thousands still stranded in Birdsville quagmire

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 3 hours ago

Authorities in Queensland's far south-west say they are hoping one road out of Birdsville will reopen today where there are still about 3,000 people left are stranded because of wet and muddy roads.

Sarkozy threatens to strip nationality from immigrants

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 4 hours ago

President Nicolas Sarkozy says he wants to strip French nationality from immigrants if they kill or try to kill police or public officials, as part of a controversial law and order drive.

Researchers link low vitamin D to schizophrenia

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 4 hours ago

Researchers say babies born with low vitamin D levels may have an increased risk of developing schizophrenia later in life.

Christchurch damage bill to run into billions

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 4 hours ago

New Zealand's government says it may have to foot the bill for thousands of unisnured people who suffered major losses in Saturday's Christchurch earthquake.

Mystery couple linked to MI6 bathtub death

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 4 hours ago

Police investigating the death of a man who worked for Britain's secret intelligence service MI6 say they are trying to trace a couple who paid a visit to his flat about a month before he was found dead.

Pakistan races to protect towns from surging floods

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 4 hours ago

Pakistani authorities are racing to protect two southern towns and their 360,000 residents from surging floods, as the nation struggles to cope with its worst natural disaster in living memory.

Reserve expected to hold fire

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 4 hours ago

The Reserve Bank is widely expected to leave the official interest rates on hold today, as it surveys an uncertain global outlook.

Greenpeace to appeal Tokyo Two sentence

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 4 hours ago

Greenpeace says it will appeal the conviction of two Japanese anti-whaling protesters who were convicted of stealing a box of whale meat yesterday.

Protests prompt Blair to cancel London signing

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 5 hours ago

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair says he has cancelled a book-signing in London this week to mark the launch of his memoirs, over fears the event would be hit by protests.

UK vicar jailed for migrant marriage scam

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 6 hours ago

A Church of England vicar who oversaw hundreds of sham marriages to help migrants settle illegally in Britain was jailed for four years on Monday.

Respected Afghan journalist stabbed to death

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 6 hours ago

A prominent Afghan journalist has been murdered in the capital Kabul.

Death toll rises from Guatemala landslides

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 6 hours ago

The death toll from multiple landslides in Guatemala has risen 44, with at least 16 people still missing.

South Africa strike suspended

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 8 hours ago

A strike that brought to a halt large sections of South Africa's public service has been suspended for three weeks.

Independents on verge of final decision

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 9 hours ago

After more than two weeks of waiting the shape of Australia's next government could become clear today with independent MPs Rob Oakeshott, Tony Windsor and Bob Katter finalising their negotiations with Labor and the Coalition on who they will back to form

Tense wait for flood-affected towns

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 10 hours ago

As floodwaters continue to rise in Victoria the State Emergency Service (SES) says its biggest concern overnight is Shepparton in the the state's north-east.

Aftershocks rattle Christchurch recovery efforts

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 11 hours ago

The New Zealand government has extended the state of emergency in earthquake-ravaged Christchurch until Wednesday and appointed a special minister to oversee the recovery effort as aftershocks continue.

Richard III, Avenue Q dominate Helpmann Awards

ABC News: Breaking Stories - 11 hours ago

The play Richard III, the musical Avenue Q and the opera Peter Grimes were the big winners at the tenth annual Helpmann Awards on Monday night.

Games

Stardock On Elemental's Future

Blue's News - 7 hours ago

There's a Drama Cleansing Thread on the Elemental Forums written by Stardock's Brad "Frogboy" Wardell discussing the future of Elemental: War of Magic, their 4X turn-based strategy game. Going...

New Anirah Adds Mac Support

Blue's News - 7 hours ago

Lost Luggage Studios offers version 1.2 of Anirah: Riddle of the Pharaohs, and the new version of this "MahJongg-like math-based puzzle game" adds Mac support. There are shareware trial versions...

The Bible Online Beta

Blue's News - 7 hours ago

Open beta testing for The Bible Online is slated to begin today at 6:00 pm GMT+1, which the Blue Computer tells us is about a half-hour ago. The Bible Online is a browser-based MMOG with RTS and RPG...

Gold - Combat Mission Afghanistan

Blue's News - 7 hours ago

1C-SoftClub and Snowball Studios announce that Combat Mission Afghanistan is gold, and this standalone military tactical simulator will go on sale in Russia on September 10. This will be followed...

Aliens Colonial Marines Lives

Blue's News - 7 hours ago

Aliens Colonial Marines is still in the works at Gearbox Software, reports Joystiq based on comments at the Gearbox Software panel at PAX. It's a sign of how little news there's been lately about...

Arkham City Multiplayer?

Blue's News - 7 hours ago

Batman: Arkham City will reportedly include multiplayer support, reports GameSpy, saying the news on the recently announced sequel to Batman: Arkham Asylum is in the latest print issue of PSM3,...

CABAL Online Episode 4 Details

Blue's News - 7 hours ago

ESTSoft announces details on the fourth episode of CABAL Online, a free expansion which will go live later this month for both the US edition and the European edition of this free-to-play MMORPG....

Ships Ahoy - Chime

Blue's News - 7 hours ago

The PC edition of Chime is now available on Steam, offering this puzzle game already released on consoles, including a new PC-specific level using Jonathan Coulton's song Still Alive from the Portal...

Lylian Trailers

Blue's News - 7 hours ago

A teaser trailer for episode one of Lylian is now available, offering a gameplay-free teaser of this upcoming 2D episodic side-scroller. Not to be outdone, the Lylian Game Media Page offers a...

On DNF IP Ownership

Blue's News - 7 hours ago

For the record, Gearbox Software now owns the Duke Nukem intellectual property, as we see this being reported on a number of gaming sites today and yesterday. We reported this on Friday, but this was...

Australian Broadband

2009 survey results now available

Whirlpool.net.au - 3 days ago

The results of Whirlpool's 2009 Australian Broadband Survey are now available.

Editorial: ISP filtering policy is not evidence-based

Whirlpool.net.au - 3 days ago

The Federal Government?s proposed ISP-level filtering policy is costly, complicated, and will be completely ineffective.

April Fools: Existing ADSL2+ users to miss out on NBN

Whirlpool.net.au - 7 days ago

Households that already have access to ADSL2+ won't get a fibre upgrade under the NBN, according to a shock announcement on ABC radio last night by Stephen Conroy.

2009 Broadband Survey now running

Whirlpool.net.au - 9 days ago

The Australian Broadband Survey 2009 is here, and we are once again asking consumers to have their say about the state of broadband in Australia.

First NBN locations announced in TAS

Whirlpool.net.au - 12 days ago

The first locations in Tasmania to get connected to the NBN were announced today by the Prime Minister.

3 set to utilise Vodafone network

Whirlpool.net.au - 16 days ago

3 mobile customers look set to get expanded "on network" 2G coverage, thanks to the merger of the two telcos announced earlier this year.

Tassie NBN stage 2 announced

Whirlpool.net.au - 17 days ago

The Tasmanian and Federal governments have jointly announced the locations for stage two of the NBN rollout.

Mandatory ISP filtering to go ahead

Whirlpool.net.au - 23 days ago

The Federal Government plans to implement mandatory ISP filtering for "refused classification" websites, it was announced today.

Major international link down

Whirlpool.net.au - 25 days ago

A major Internet link between Australia and the rest of the world has failed, affecting multiple ISPs and their customers.

Primus DC loses power again

Whirlpool.net.au - 28 days ago

Primus' data centre at 55 King St Melbourne lost power this afternoon, only months after a similar issue crippled multiple ISPs.

Technology

Pivot High Calculator Stock Market Too 1.0 (Windows)

ZDNet News - Front Door - -169025334 seconds ago

Pivot High Calculator is a nifty little program that will help you immensely with any medium to longer term investment plan. It also works great for knowing when to short stocks. This takes the...

Stellar Phoenix Outlook Password Recovery 1.1 (Windows)

ZDNet News - Front Door - -13418934 seconds ago

Stellar Phoenix Outlook Password Recovery Software is designed to retrieve lost or forgotten password for PST(Personal Storage Table) files. The Password Recovery Application displays the list of...

Stellar Phoenix Pst File Splitter 1.1 (Windows)

ZDNet News - Front Door - -13418934 seconds ago

Stellar Phoenix Pst file splitter Software is designed to split large pst file into small size pst files on the basis of sender's e-mail IDs and date. Interactive user interface makes it easy to...

New Tab King 3.1.9 (Windows)

ZDNet News - Front Door - -11172534 seconds ago

New Tab King is a Firefox extension that lets you view your most visited sites in a histogram view on each new tab launch. The new tab also displays a list of recently closed tabs, related sites,...

Torbutton 1.2.4 (Windows)

ZDNet News - Front Door - -8666934 seconds ago

Torbutton is a 1-click way for Firefox users to enable or disable the browser's use of Tor. It adds a panel to the statusbar that says "Tor Enabled" (in green) or "Tor Disabled" (in red). The user...

Memir Games iPool 2.0.22b (Windows)

ZDNet News - Front Door - -8321334 seconds ago

Play Online Pool with others from all over the world. iPool is fully 3D, with realistic physics and graphics. With unique game play and aiming syste, iPool allows players to appreciate the game of...

DG2FloCal Lite 2.01 (Windows)

ZDNet News - Front Door - -7457334 seconds ago

Instrumentation engineering calculation software for orifice plates, flow nozzles, venturi tubes and restriction orifice. Calculation are based on ISO 5167-1, ASME MFC-3M, AGA-3 (ANSI/API 2530...

Mini Sudoku for Windows 1.0 (Windows)

ZDNet News - Front Door - -7370934 seconds ago

Mini Sudoku is a Windows version of Sudoku game panel, which deployed under the terms and conditions of GNU General Public License - Version 3. This version of Sudoku Game System provide Sudoku...

Twidget 2.0.5 (Mac)

ZDNet News - Front Door - -7198134 seconds ago

Twidget is a free Dashboard Widget for OS X that allows you to update your Twitter status.

MSD Tasks 5.40 (Windows)

ZDNet News - Front Door - -6852534 seconds ago

MSD Tasks is a visual task manager that allows to organize visually the tasks of several people at the same time. The secretary will be able to organize her boss agenda, a professional will be...