Hope for new way to beat aggressive cancer

AUSTRALIAN researchers are optimistic they have found a way to treat triple-negative breast cancer, an aggressive disease that mainly affects younger women. Although still being tested on mice, the treatment is based on two drugs that are already...

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Synthetic drugs gain popularity: study

SO-CALLED synthetic highs are becoming increasingly popular among recreational drug users in Australia, according to an annual survey of people who use psychostimulants like ecstasy. It's a big worry, says chief investigator Dr Lucy Burns of the...

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Sea cucumber overfishing could hurt reef

OVERFISHING is putting sea cucumbers in a pickle on the Great Barrier Reef, marine biologists say. Sydney University's Professor Maria Byrne and Dr Hampus Eriksson, a post-doctoral researcher at Stockholm University, say more than 24 sea cucumber...

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Union to protest Telstra job cuts at AGM

THE public sector union will use Telstra's annual general meeting on Tuesday to demand the company stop sending jobs overseas. The union will demonstrate outside Telstra's AGM against "massive" job cuts made by the company. It claims there...

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Knifeman nabbed at Buckingham Palace gates

A MAN has been arrested after trying to get into Buckingham Palace with a knife, Scotland Yard says. The 44-year-old was held around 11.30am on Monday (2130 AEDT Monday) when he attempted to get through the north centre gate and was stopped...

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Questions over Labor's factional control

FALLOUT from the deals done over Labor's shadow ministry is likely to continue ahead of portfolios being assigned later this week. Former Speaker Anna Burke unsuccessfully challenged for the position of chief opposition whip at Monday's caucus...

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Forrest donates $65m to WA universities

MINING billionaire Andrew Forrest has gifted a staggering $65 million - believed to be the nation's largest single philanthropic donation - to attract the world's best minds to Western Australia's universities. About $50 million from the chairman...

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