Jamelle Agbuis

Markets in Asia, Europe and the US were sold down for a second day in the past three on these fears.

Robbie McEwen claimed his first victory of the season by beating Alexander Kristoff and Yauheni Hutarovich in a bunch sprint in the fourth stage of the Tour de Wallonie.

As the law enforcement crackdown against hacktivist groups Anonymous and LulzSec continued, British law enforcement on Wednesday announced the apprehension of "Topiary," a 19-year-old man from the Shetland Islands north of Scotland who has served as the spokesperson for the group.

Despite yesterday's higher than expected inflation figures, does anyone seriously expect the Reserve Bank to lift interest rates next Tuesday? Certainly all that silly talk about a rate cut has been exposed for what it was: nonsense, even though Westpac was sticking to its call yesterday.

Rio Tinto's NSW-based majority owned subsidiary, Coal and Allied, has revealed the benefit of not being a Queensland-based coal miner and exporter in the six months to June 30.

Throughout the history of agriculture across the globe, farming has always been a diversified sector of the economy. Small, self-sustaining, family farms were the order of the day in most cultures.

An armed man approaches an innocent old lady on the street, shoves his gun in her face and screams, "Give me everything you own!" The little old lady, flummoxed but determined, angrily answers back, "Screw you! I'm not giving you one red cent!"

Since 2009, Android supported three general screen size categories: small, medium, and large. But the introduction of tablet-specific Android Honeycomb in early 2011 brought support for the extra large screen size category and drove a wedge between Android phones and Android tablets.

Google has updated the alpha "Dev" build of Google Chrome to 14.0.835.2. This minor update is notable largely for the amendment of one of its multi-touch features to avoid a conflict with Mac OS X Lion, which released last week.

US stocks fell sharply on Wednesday, in the third consecutive day of losses, as investors feared the country's debt-ceiling standoff could force a default or downgrade of US Treasury debt.

More than 300 jobs are expected to be lost under plans by Telstra to relocate some services to India as well as other offshore locations.

With the resources sector poaching limited labour from other states with the promise of huge wages, business heavyweights are warning that the rest of the Australian economy is not prepared and cannot compete.

Companies often claim that people are their best asset. For that to be true, it is important to invest in employees through training and other learning opportunities.

FINA will crown a new women's water polo champion on Friday. Greece and China will play for gold in the FINA World Championship competition at the Natatorium on Friday.

In what proved to be a monumental day for the Australian Dollar the nation's currency surged to an all-time post float high against its US Counterpart reaching a rate of 1.1079 late in the Asian Session.

Our big blue backyard hosts the largest variety of marine life in the world. Whether we consider the big majestic creatures that leave us in awe, the brilliant sandy beaches, or the little flashes of colour that dart through coral reefs, there can be no doubting that our marine environment is part of our Australian identity.

In a followup article to the Front Page Project Rebellion article, Ben Hurley from the Australian Financial Review has published a new story on an ongoing investigation by the ACCC into the activities of RealEstate.com.au and to a lesser extent Domain.com.au.

Meet Frank Ferrante - a boisterous 54-year-old Sicilian from Brooklyn, NY, living in San Francisco. Frank has a love of great food, beautiful women and a good time, but he is also a former drug and alcohol addict, overweight, and fighting Hepatitis C. Estranged from his daughter, Frank is suffering from depression, has been single for many years, is taking a long list of prescription drugs just to manage his sickness symptoms.

Obamacare opponents in Ohio collect enough signatures to get constitutional amendment on fall ballot

US durable goods orders fell 2.1pct in June after a 1.9pct increase in the prior month. Excluding transportation orders rose by a modest 0.1pct. A proxy for business spending - Non-defence capital goods orders excluding aircraft - slipped 0.4pct after a 1.7pct rise in May.

The Russian divers Ilya Zakharov and Evgeny Kuznetsov surprised the audience with their silver and bronze medals.

In a Press Conference before the start of the Swimming competition of the 14th FINA World Championships Shanghai 2011, the FINA President Dr. Julio C. Maglione expressed his satisfaction by the level of performances achieved during the first week of FINA’s major event. “Our athletes are in great shape and are very well prepared, and the competition is of high level,” said Dr. Maglione.

Over the years, the men’s 200m free has become one of the most awaited races of the swimming programme at both the FINA World Championships and Olympic Games.

The script has gone as expected in the FINA World Championship men's water polo competition with the top four teams in the world making the semifinals.

It's not as if there is any shortage of Austin Coffee Shops. I'm sitting in the East Village Cafe in East Austin, but there are so many to choose from.

It was my absolute pleasure to be invited to speak to the 700 attendees of the Travel Bloggers Exchange (TBEX) held in Vancouver, Canada in June of this year.

Recent changes to NSW public sector wages will lead to greater employee unrest and dissatisfaction.

In July's Talking Travel we chat to Andrea and John Spirov of InspiringTravellers.com (JohnAndrea), a self-described "couple of nomadic thirtysomethings currently travelling the world full-time".

Struggling industrial conglomerate Alesco Corporation seems to have emerged from a couple of years of tough times, losses and lean profits.