TheAge

2012-05-25

• 17:51 UTC $US3.2b loss in one week
  Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg's fortune takes massive hit as company's shares dive.
• 16:37 UTC Car breakdown leads to train crash
  Woman killed as train hits car stuck at level crossing in Werribee.
• 10:00 UTC Google's tiny tax bill alarms Turnbull
  Internet giant's $74,176 Australian tax bill has Malcolm Turnbull searching for answers.
• 10:00 UTC Facebook loses friends over float flop
  A WEEK on from the ''biggest technology flotation'' in history, the party's over for Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder and chief.
• 10:00 UTC Wiser Rice out to shine
  Swimming's golden girl Stephanie Rice has endured plenty over the last few years.
• 10:00 UTC Parkinson's and me
  Staying positive the Michael J. Fox mantra for battling debilitating illness.
• 10:00 UTC Eurovision, light your fire
  And now, there's more: song contest's line-up expanded to 26, including five 'protected' countries.
• 10:00 UTC Scratchy Cats hang on
  Geelong holds on to record a narrow win over the Western Bulldogs.
• 07:00 UTC The fertile fringe
  City sprawl: the need to farm versus the right to capitalise on farmland.

2012-05-25

• 10:00 UTC Journey of a jazz prodigy
  A personal look at the revival of Ethiopiam music.
• 10:00 UTC In your dreams
  "What do you want to be when you grow up?" As children we responded to the question with visions of astronauts, spies or fire-eaters, or more sober examples set by parents or childhood heroes. Today the reality is far removed from that long-cherished fantasy. Liza Power asks seven accomplished individuals what they yearned to become ...

2012-05-24

• 15:23 UTC Big Bang star quietly outed
  Jim Parsons skips the "I'M GAY!" magazine cover approach.
• 07:09 UTC Barry Gibb's touching tribute
  Bee Gee pays tribute to brother with a touching farewell video.
• 01:12 UTC Blade Runner named best sci-fi film
  Blade Runner voted the best sci-fi film ever. Do you agree?

2012-05-24

• 23:37 UTC LEGO Australia security scare
  LEGO Australia posts letters to 1591 parents who recently attempted to sign their children up to LEGO Club magazine, informing them that their personal information - as well as their child's - was not secured correctly.

2012-05-25

• 18:29 UTC UN report notes enriched uranium in Iran
  IAEA inspectors have found traces of enriched uranium at a nuclear facility in Iran but nowhere near the level required to construct a nuclear weapon.
• 17:19 UTC Cool and chic is key for Stosur
  Former finalist Samantha Stosur is adopting a laid-back approach to the French Open, hoping cool and calm can be the keys to success.
• 16:59 UTC Federer tips Nadal to crash Djoker's party
  Grand slam master Roger Federer says six-times champion Rafael Nadal deserves French Open favouritism over world No.1 Novak Djokovic.
• 15:04 UTC Hewitt welcomes Djokovic challenge
  Far from daunted, Lleyton Hewitt says he'd enjoy the challenge of taking on world No.1 Novak Djokovic in the second round of the French Open.
• 10:00 UTC Corby could be out of jail by July
  Schapelle Corby could be out of Kerobokan prison as early as July, but would need to live for the next five years in Indonesia, the governor of the Bali jail revealed last night.
• 10:00 UTC Religious rift may rend Egypt's presidential race
  EGYPT'S Muslim Brotherhood claimed last night that its candidate, Mohammed Mursi, will face Ahmed Shafiq, a former military chief and prime minister under dictator Hosni Mubarak, in a presidential runoff.
• 10:00 UTC PNG calls state of emergency in capital
  Papua New Guinea MPs have voted to declare a state of emergency in the nation's capital after rogue police officers surrounded Parliament House.
• 10:00 UTC Life goes on at the bottom as PNG reels from the top
  Enlisting the mighty modern epistle of the tweet, and the old magic of a powerful image, the ABC's Port Moresby correspondent nailed the bleak, stranger-than-fiction reality his city woke to yesterday morning.
• 10:00 UTC Gender changes make Argentina a rainbow nation
  Argentina has put in place some of the most liberal rules on changing gender in the world, allowing people to alter their gender on official documents without first having to receive a psychiatric diagnosis or surgery.
• 10:00 UTC Africa's agony repeats itself as famine stalks
  Like an unwelcome echo from 1984, a badly malnourished two-year-old, Malla Awa, is fighting for his life in a little-known corner of Africa. Africa's never-ending battle against misery now focuses on Niger.
• 10:00 UTC $33m slap for Pakistan over Bin Laden doctor
  Just $US33 million in aid a year - a drop in the ocean of the more than $US1 billion the United States pours into Pakistan annually - will be withheld in protest after Pakistan jailed the doctor who helped US forces find Osama bin Laden.
• 10:00 UTC Vatican bank chairman sacked after scandal
  The Vatican bank, the reputation of which was dealt a blow last year over an investigation into money laundering, has fired its chairman after a tenure stained by a financial scandal.
• 10:00 UTC French women to the fore but not the front
  French President Francois Hollande promised gender parity in his government and better access to power for women. He kept his word, sort of.
• 10:00 UTC Obama hits the trail and finds his inner partisan
  Barack Obama held his first rallies of the 2012 campaign at universities, one in the key state of Ohio, the other in equally marginal Virginia.
• 10:00 UTC Man says he killed 'milk carton boy'
  Man tells New York police he suffocated a long-missing six-year-old boy, in a possible break in a crime that helped launch a missing children's movement across the United States.