A TAMWORTH man has walked free after a jury cleared him of blowing up his Italian restaurant and seriously injuring a nearby resident.

PREMIER Morris Iemma admits there is a campaign within New South Wales Labor ranks to dump him as leader.

THE Pope's visit to Sydney is also shaping up as an ideological clash of rival family planning methods.

LEADING Sydney veterinary surgeon Dr Nick Kannegeiter has expressed fears that staff at the Brisbane clinic where two horses died as a result of the Hendra virus could have been exposed to the disease linked to the death of trainer Vic Rail.

A MAN has died after a two tonne concrete block fell off a forklift and crushed him at a worksite on the New South Wales south coast.

THE share market lifted today as investors snapped up stocks that now look cheap after being beaten down on the back of higher oil prices, the global credit crunch and fears of economic slowdown.

FORMER Playboy bunny Pamela Anderson says she has been paid a "huge'' amount of money to appear on Australian reality TV show Big Brother.

TWO protestors from Fathers 4 Justice have climbed onto the roof of Labour Deputy Leader Harriet Harman's south London home for the second time in a month, the campaign group said today.

THE family members of Signaller Sean McCarthy, killed in Afghanistan yesterday, have requested the media allow them to grieve in privacy.

A SYDNEY man has been charged with multiple counts of arson and trying to sell nearly $3m worth of cocaine.