National News
2:30 AM ACST | The battle for John Della Bosca's upper house seat has come down to grandmother versus the machine - the ALP machine, that is.
2:30 AM ACST | Complaints of intimidation, both verbal and in legal emails, to businesses in Sydney's The Rocks allegedly by suited men not from government departments in the past year have been the subject of a secret investigation by police.
2:30 AM ACST | They are Graham Gene Potter and Malcolm Naden, two of the country's most wanted men.
2:30 AM ACST | The NSW Art Gallery is perplexed by the story of a Norman Lindsay painting with mysterious police links.
2:30 AM ACST | The Sydney-born Islamic cleric who called for the beheading of a Dutch anti-Muslim MP has been back in Australia for several months and preaching at an Islamic centre in Campbelltown in Sydney's south-west.
2:30 AM ACST | Lisa Altman has spent enough time in hospitals with her young son Oscar to know every cent of funds raised by the Rebel Sport Run4Fun participants is truly needed.
2:30 AM ACST | The bullet-riddled ''Welcome to Belanglo State Forest'' sign bearing the warning ''Please Be Careful'' is scratched with graffiti. Among the scribblings are: ''Ivan was here …'' and, more prophetically, ''Left some unfinished business''.
2:30 AM ACST | Australia's school chaplaincy program faces a constitutional challenge in the High Court as opposition grows to having government funding paying for God's representatives in state schools.
2:30 AM ACST | NSW is in the grip of a cocaine epidemic, according to the state's top crime expert, and there is no shortage of users willing to shell out up to $500 a gram for a hit of the drug.
2:30 AM ACST | Wild weather will again lash the southern states today after 24 hours of torrential rain and gales tore through Victoria and South Australia.
2:30 AM ACST | A humpback whale has been freed from a shark net on the Gold Coast.
2:30 AM ACST | A pentecostal church has allegedly fleeced its own members of more than $4 million.
2:30 AM ACST | A couple had a dramatic start to married life when their baby girl was born 14 weeks premature in a helicopter the day after they exchanged vows.
2:30 AM ACST | A woman wearing headphones who may not have heard the siren of an ambulance on an emergency call was one of six pedestrians struck on NSW roads in the past 24 hours.
2:30 AM ACST | Former Labor leader Kim Beazley has weighed into the hung parliament debate, casting doubt on Australia's ability to perform a major and effective role on the international stage.
2:30 AM ACST | Key independent Tony Windsor has strongly backed Labor's $43 billion National Broadband Network, criticising the Coalition's cheaper alternative as a ''retrograde policy'' that would create a digital backwater in rural Australia.
2:30 AM ACST | Question time will be dramatically transformed and the rambling questions and answers of MPs curbed under parliamentary reforms negotiated by the three independent MPs who hold the key to a Labor or Coalition government.
2:30 AM ACST | Cate Blanchett has spoken of how significant children are in spreading the message about global warming, in a rare glimpse into her family life.
12:13 AM ACST | The discovery last night of a man's body between two cars has triggered a possible murder investigation.
04 Sep 10 | More than 50 per cent of couples who undergo reproductive treatment do so because the man has the fertility problem.