Two of Australia’s biggest banks have kicked off merger talks after Westpac approached St George about a proposed takeover of its operations.
The United States has dispatched its first aid flight to Burma, where some 1.5 million survivors of a massive cyclone are still waiting for help.
On-again off-again Hollywood couple Owen Wilson and Kate Hudson are engaged to marry just eight months after Wilson's suicide attempt, reports say.
Ferrari's Felipe Massa won the Turkish Grand Prix from pole position for the third year in a row.
The human race will find life elsewhere in the universe as it pushes ahead with space exploration, astronauts back from the latest US space mission said.
Governments should enact laws mandating the use of car seat restraints to the age of four, a researcher says.
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