HOME loan repayments and rent are hurting struggling borrowers much more than high petrol prices, data from Australia's largest privately owned debt collection agency shows ...

Expose the Mafia and live in fear - Sydney Morning Herald

Roberto Saviano … "I have to go around in an armoured car. I cannot find a house to live in. I am seen as dirty because I spoke and I wrote of 'that thing'. I never expected such ...

Sinking in a river of roubles - The Australian

IT'S 3am on a Friday along a narrow Moscow canal behind the House on the Embankment, the sprawling apartment block built under Stalin for the Communist Party nomenklatura, where ...

Town enlists security dogs to tackle violence, drunkenness - Australian Broadcasting Corp.

Dog security patrols in a remote South Australian town have drawn mixed responses, with some residents welcoming a drop in violence and others likening it to Apartheid-era ...

Motorbike parks to double, but car-sharers go without - Brisbane Times

Brisbane City Council will double the number of motorcycle parking spaces in the CBD but has no plans to give a community car-sharing service any spaces. The council will increase ...