Motorists are advised to avoid Sydney's CBD for the half marathon.

Gunmen slaughtered a Baghdad family in the latest bloodshed of an escalating sectarian conflict in Iraq.

Sweden, the home of the group ABBA which won the contest 40 years ago, is revelling in Eurovision fever ahead of the finals in the city of Malmo.

Bob Katter says flying foxes must be removed or culled after a horse contracted the lyssavirus.