Melbourne Victoria

Akash Ananth was just one of a growing stream of overseas students coming to Melbourne to learn to fly.

States will have to provide detailed reports on the performances of individual state schools to qualify for federal funding, under the next phase of Kevin Rudd's "education revolution".

Rock promoter Glenn Wheatley is back in town. Sitting at a leather-bound desk in his palatial South Yarra home, there are few signs that he is still under home detention.

The Age's editor-in-chief, Andrew Jaspan, has been removed from his position less than 24 hours after the newspaper's owner, Fairfax Media, announced 550 job losses.

Australian doctors will dob in Chinese hospitals that sell the organs of executed prisoners to Australian patients as part of a global push to stamp out the illegal trade in human organs.

Victorian Health Minister Daniel Andrews is at the centre of a growing political storm over claims that hospitals have been falsifying patient records to win government funding.

A controversial late-term abortion specialist will face a professional tribunal this morning to defend his work, in a case likely to further inflame Victoria's abortion debate.

Victoria's embattled TAFE system will get 900 extra teachers as the Brumby Government moves to counter a backlash against contentious plans to overhaul training courses across the state.

He might have begun his short life abandoned or lost on the streets of Mumbai, but Yadav Munohur was farewelled from it with a police guard of honour.

Brent Watson was on the 18th tee when he rang his friend, the National Rugby League player Greg Bird. He had missed six calls and two text messages from the rugby league star.

FORMER Australian beauty queen and controversial London socialite Michele Renouf has caused a stir at historian David Irving's holocaust-denial trial in Vienna, protesting on his behalf.

A PRIEST used boys under his care for his own comfort and sexual gratification, a Hobart court was told yesterday.

TWO teenage victims of the Mildura hit-run accident have been remembered as a "loving daughter" and a "great mate".

THE woman killed, along with her partner and child when their Brisbane house was gutted by fire, has been named as disgraced lawyer-turned-drug-addict Theresa Marchetti.

THE spiritual leader of Australia's 300,000 Muslims yesterday accused John Howard of inflaming public hatred towards the Islamic community.

PART of a Sydney plastics warehouse has been extensively damaged by a blaze that broke out late last night.

HEALTH and education are by far the most important issues for voters, ahead of the economy, according to a new poll.

A REGISTERED club where women can work split shifts to fit in with caring responsibilities is among organisations officially dubbed "female friendly".

FEDERAL Labor leader Kim Beazley's refusal to intervene in Simon Crean's battle for preselection is creating division in the party, Labor frontbencher Martin Ferguson says.

A 98-year-old woman was raped on several occasions in a Victorian nursing home and other elderly residents were also sexually assaulted by the same male staff member, ABC TV reported tonight.