7/10/2008 | Experts say banks are not doing enough to protect customers and are playing down the problem for fear of harming their reputations.
7/10/2008 | Virgin Blue sends a $500,000 bill to Airservices Australia after 120 flights were delayed from landing or taking off at Sydney Airport.
7/10/2008 | LANCE ARMSTRONG still plans to attend the Tour Down Under in South Australia early next year, even if the world cycling body rules he is not eligible to compete.
7/10/2008 | GRANT STOELWINDER'S dream team gained another high-profile member yesterday when triple Olympic medal winner Andrew Lauterstein revealed he will move to Sydney to train alongside world record-holders Eamon Sullivan and Libby Trickett.
7/10/2008 | NSW residents have led a record exodus from Australia, with as many people as live in Bathurst deserting the premier state last year to live abroad.
7/10/2008 | THE Federal Government has told NSW not to bother asking for funds for the $12 billion North West Metro project because there are no federal Labor votes in it.
7/10/2008 | THE father of a teenage girl who fell 10 metres to her death from a cliff in Sydney's east says he asked his daughter to "ease up" on partying two months ago.
7/10/2008 | A ONE-TIME Kings Cross strip club manager questioned during the Wood royal commission into police corruption over his role in the drug trade has been killed in an apparent gangland hit.
7/10/2008 | THE world is facing an animal exctinction crisis, with Australia a key culprit, the largest assessment of biodiversity ever undertaken shows.
7/10/2008 | ENTRIES close today for the Greens' Bad Developer Awards or "Toasters", nicknamed after the controversial East Circular Quay development, which allow individuals and groups to nominate the worst property developments and developers in the past year.
7/10/2008 | IT HAS been the scene of first kisses and first fishes, a much-loved local landmark that even had its moment in the national spotlight as a "star" in the TV show SeaChange.
7/10/2008 | THE Federal Government would consider disclosing the identity of people who settle large tax disputes for less than the original demand, the Assistant Treasurer, Chris Bowen, said yesterday.
7/10/2008 | Shock. Anger. Fear. These are the typical reactions from the growing number of bank customers who find themselves the victims of electronic fraud, says Bruce Ford.
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7/10/2008 | HALF-EMPTY, or half-full? That was the conundrum facing Newcastle coach Gary van Egmond as the final whistle sounded at EnergyAustralia Stadium yesterday. As the skies blackened and the heavens opened after an afternoon of hard graft in steambath conditions, it seemed the end of the world was nigh. The good news for both the Jets and the Phoenix is they will live to fight another day. A third of the way through the season, both clubs can still aim, realistically, for a place in the finals.
7/10/2008 | THE warbling of songbirds cracked through the heavy sky hanging over the Darling River yesterday as the Governor-General, Quentin Bryce, stood on the banks of the waterway at the centre of an interstate tug-of-war.
7/10/2008 | A WORLD-FIRST trial of a low-cost combination "polypill" to prevent heart attacks is about to begin in Sydney, in a move that could eventually see all people from middle age onwards medicated to reduce their chance of disease - even if they do not have high blood pressure, raised cholesterol or other obvious risk factors.
7/10/2008 | WANT to buy enough information about a stranger's credit card to steal their money? All it takes is one email and a transfer of funds through Western Union.
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7/10/2008 | MALCOLM TURNBULL accepts that bank profits will decline because of the global financial crisis but says the institutions could still easily afford to pass on in full any interest rate cut granted today.
7/10/2008 | THE Overseas Passenger Terminal at Circular Quay has become "infested" with the "bog-standard Sydney restaurateur" and should be partially demolished to open up views of historic buildings on George Street, the former prime minister Paul Keating says.
7/10/2008 | THE English have their allotments; in Sydney we use the streets. In a variation on guerilla gardening, Sydneysiders are moving veggie plots from the backyard to the street verge, and converting formerly fallow public land into mini-market gardens.