Melbourne Victoria

A BIZARRE-looking gunman wearing a dress, roller-blades and brandishing a gun has stolen cash from a Bayswater Victoria bank.

A MAN accused of accepting money to be an al-Qaeda sleeper agent in Australia would not have been given secret contact numbers by the terror cell if he had rejected their job offer, a court heard yesterday.

A VICTORIAN court has imposed more than $42,000 in fines after a young girl fell from a flying fox and suffered serious injuries while celebrating her birthday.

A MOTHER of five who shot dead her abusive husband feared he would kill her if she left him, a court has been told.

ACCUSED terrorist Joseph Terrence Thomas would not have been given a secret al-Qaeda phone number and email address unless he had agreed to be a sleeper agent for them in Australia, a court has been told.

A MAN dressed as a woman escaped on rollerblades after holding up a bank in Melbourne's outer east, witnesses told police.

A MAN dressed in women's clothing has robbed a bank in Melbourne's outer east today.

A MOTHER of five shot dead her husband after suffering years of physical, psychological and sexual abuse from him, a court was told today.

THE family of the man accused of driving the car that ploughed into a group of teenagers, killing six, say they have received death threats in the wake of the tragedy.

EIGHTEEN people suffered minor injuries in a collision between a car and a minibus in far north-western Victoria early today.

A 34-year-old man has been charged over the deaths of five teenagers hit by a car while walking on a roadside in far north-western Victoria.

VICTORIA police allege the driver involved in a hit and run tragedy in which five teenagers died ran away, leaving two young children in his damaged vehicle.

THE small community of Cardross, near Red Cliffs, in Victoria's north-west, has been devastated by a car accident that killed five local teenagers.

A 15-year-old boy and a 19-year-old man have died in separate accidents during a disastrous weekend on Victoria's roads.

A man has been arrested after a hit-and-run accident that killed five teenagers and left seven others injured, two critically, in Victoria's north-west.

POLICE have arrested a man after a car ploughed into a group of teenagers, killing five and injuring at least seven near Mildura in Victoria's north-west.

KYLIE Minogue has joined the fight to make breast cancer wonder drug Herceptin freely available to sufferers.

A BANDIT who held a knife to a woman's throat has walked out of court with 22 days to serve in jail.

MAYHEM broke out at a Geelong race meeting yesterday when two unruly mobs of men turned on each other.

POLICE have arrested a man after a car ploughed into a group of teenagers, killing five and injuring at least seven near Mildura in Victoria's north-west.