THE share market has opened higher today, led by the resources sector.

A GROUP of women beat up a notorious bottom-pincher after he groped one of them in the street.

ACCUSED child molester Dennis Ferguson will face trial in March next year.

AN American man who groomed children as young as five to perform live sex shows at a swingers' club has been sentenced to life in prison.

GROWN men were in tears as Colin the abandoned baby humpback whale struggled as he was dragged behind a boat before being left to thrash on a beach after he was injected with a fatal dose of anaesthetic this morning.

SLASHING jobs because of a downturn in the large car market is not a sign of bad planning, a Ford spokeswoman says.

A SECOND campaign office for Republican White House hopeful John McCain has been evacuated after receiving a threatening letter containing a white powder.

ANZ has sacked two of its staff in the fallout of the Opes Prime crisis, after a review of the bank's securities lending operations found risk controls were inadequate.

Two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Pakistan's main army munitions factory overnight, killing 64 workers.

SINGER Gwen Stefani has given birth to a boy - and given it a bizarre name - after being rushed to hospital with a police escort.