May 23, 2013 Ford announces total manufacturing shutdown, with 1200 jobs set to go.  

May 23, 2013 British police have shot and wounded two men after a man thought to be a serving soldier was killed outside a London barracks, in what eyewitnesses described as an attempted beheading.

May 23, 2013 Gina Rinehart's personal wealth has shed a staggering $7 billion in the past 12 months, but even her losses exceed the total wealth of Australia's next richest person, according to the BRW Rich 200 list, released on Thursday.

May 23, 2013 Prime Minister Julia Gillard says we have lost a wonderful Australian with the death of former first lady Hazel Hawke.

May 23, 2013 The debilitating haze of Alzheimer's disease began its capricious descent on Hazel Hawke in 2001 and three years later she noted in typically laconic Australian style on her 75th birthday: "It's a bugger. It's just bad luck. It's an illness which is unpredictable, and when it comes you've just got to cope with it. It's like losing your skin or something."

May 23, 2013 Experts urge action to counter the abuse of anxiety and insomnia drugs.

May 23, 2013 Major cleaning company Swan Services has gone out of business, putting 2500 cleaners across Australia - and an estimated 800 in Victoria - out of work.

May 23, 2013 The country's air-safety investigation bureau has been castigated in its handling of an inquiry into the ditching of an air-ambulance plane in the sea off Norfolk Island in November 2009.

May 23, 2013 Two car manufacturers remain, but will they be enough to sustain the local industry?

May 23, 2013 Former speaker Peter Slipper will stand trial in December over claims he defrauded the Commonwealth.