Brisbane, Australia News

Terrifying moment SWAT team stormed a plane after passenger told stewardess 'I want to blow up Canada' and U.S. fighter jets escorted jet back to Toronto An 18-year-old Gold Coast girl has won her bid to have a $680,000-a-year drug subsidised so that she can receive ongoing medical treatments to keep her alive.

In two famous - and famously lengthy - experiments, scientists wait for pitch to drip from a funnel.

Journalist Peter Greste's brother Mike Greste said a Cairo legal firm had been appointed and was in the process of lodging the Al-Jazeera-funded appeal.

THE equivalent of eight jumbo jets a day landed or left Brisbane Airport empty in the past year because of a massive oversupply of seats in the market.

He believes such incidents could be the ramifications of a new environmental rule which forced engine manufacturers to reduce emissions... "Because of the change, there is an enormous amount of pressure put on diesel", Mr West told The Queensland Times.

Johnson: "There are so many plant-based alternatives coming out, perhaps it's time for a 'non-dairy dairy' section in the refrigerated case."

MARK COLVIN: There's some good news for the tourism industry in an economics report out today.

An Australian business has expressed the outrage of many by suspending lamb sales to Russia over the MH17 plane disaster.

Poor Tasmania. It is the island that floats just off the bottom of mainland Australia, and no one can seem to remember it is there.

Former US presidential candidate John McCain has urged the Prime Minister not to invite Russian president Vladimir Putin to November's G20 summit in Brisbane.

Finances Online shared with me an infographic of the world's most expensive foods.

Evidence is mounting that Russian-backed insurgents in eastern Ukraine were responsible for the shooting down of a Malaysian Airlines plane, with the loss of 298 lives.

The Senate Environment and Communications References Committee public hearing into the adequacy of the Federal and Queensland Governments' efforts to stop the rapid decline of the Reef moves to Townsville after hearings in Brisbane and Mackay.

MELBOURNE man Robert Edward Cerantonio who is suspect of using the internet to urge people to join jihad in Iraq and Syria is on his way back to Australia.

The Great Barrier Reef off Australia's east coast is "in the worst state since records began" and in 40 years large swathes of coral structures will be replaced by seaweed and algae, scientists told a senate inquiry.

Three years after the discovery dubbed the 'Lost Diggers', nine teenagers from Vignacourt have flown to Australia to meet with a number of the known descendants of the Australian soldiers captured in the images.

Queensland Premier Campbell Newman met with officials from the Netherlands, Belgium, Britain and the Philippines at the executive building to add the first signatures to the book.

As the 20th International AIDS Conference gets underway in Melbourne, workers in the sex industry are hoping that a range of HIV and AIDS issues relating to them will be addressed, as well as bring about attention to its causes and issues.

DON'T book flights for a Friday afternoon. And always get groceries on Monday. Save cash by shopping smarter, not shopping less.

Betsy is - well, was - Mr. Jelley's 1962 'Vette. They have been together nearly 41 years, a lifetime filled with Sunday drives.