Light rail was officially launched one year ago in Canberra and, up until the COVID-19 outbreak, was proving more popular than first estimated. The government announced an increase in frequency to help alleviate the peak hour crush earlier this year, but now, the carriages are running empty.

Victorian Education Minister James Merlino accuses the Federal Government of using funding to "force" independent schools to undermine the state's strategy on face-to-face learning during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Duchess of Cambridge made an exciting announcement on Thursday as she revealed details...

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Conservative leadership hopeful Peter MacKay is calling for use of the Magnitsky Act if specific individuals in China can be identified as having suppressed information related to COVID-19.

Boris Johnson has declared that the UK's response to the coronavirus demands the same effort and courage as the armed forces showed in the Second World War.

(MedPage Today) -- Outcomes after radiofrequency (RF) ablation with a contact force-sensing catheter were promising for people with persistent atrial fibrillation (Afib) in the PRECEPT study. The device yielded 61.7% freedom at 15 months from...

While Americans are sheltering in place, the federal government is shuffling hundreds of immigrant detainees between U.S. towns, putting vulnerable communities at risk.

Former English Premier League footballer Peter Whittingham dies at the age of 35, nearly two weeks after an accidental fall.

Australia's Olympic athletes are told to plan for the Games to be delayed until next year, amid growing calls to postpone the event in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.

Tamieka and Teya Garcia are making inroads in the boxing industry despite a life-threatening health condition that complicates their efforts to step inside the ring.

A Test cricketer driving a Formula 1 car, virtual horse racing at Aintree and a husband tripping over computer cords while his wife is in second place in an online triathlon — here's how athletes are coping online during the coronavirus.

As pools, gyms and sports facilities shut down to comply with physical-distancing rules, Olympic and Paralympic athletes are coming up with creative ways to ensure their training programs can continue.

As coronavirus puts the brakes on many public events, equestrian competitions move with the times — and go online.

Australia's elite sportspeople wronged by dud selection calls or dodgy doping violations are set to chase justice in a new legal arena.

A smiling, happy Brydi Saul is on a mission to get to the Paralympics. But rewind three years, and it was a very different story.

Flattering comparisons with other leading sports officials have also helped elevate the ARL chairman's current status as the can-do man of Australian sport, but as Richard Hinds asks, is he about to make a huge mistake?

Sporting organisations can afford to join the national redress scheme for institutional child sexual abuse but have chosen not to, according to government documents obtained by the ABC.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says NRL players like the Gold Coast's Bryce Cartwright who refuse to be vaccinated ahead of the May 28 restart should be banned from competing.

"Short Circuit," "Twister" and "Crimson Tide" are also in the running for this week's crown in the #UltimateSummerMovie Showdown.

Veteran character actor Peter Gerety has a meaty role in Richard Jury's "Working Man" even as the movie shifts from quiet dignity into melodrama.

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An AstraZeneca diabetes drug that brought in more than $1.5 billion in sales last year has won an FDA nod expanding its use to adults with systolic heart failure, a condition in which the heart struggles to pump with enough force to push enough blood into circulation. The drug, the once-daily pill dapagliflozin (Farxiga), was […]

Eli Lilly veteran Enrique Conterno has been revealed as the new Chief Executive Officer of FibroGen following the unexpected death of its previous long-term Chief Thomas Neff in August last year.

Neff passing took the company off-guard, bringing a sad and abrupt end to his 26 years of service. In the wake of the loss, FibroGen appointed Board member James Schoeneck to lead the company until a permanent replacement could be found.

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BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics, a firm developing cellular therapies to tackle neurodegenerative diseases, has named industry Big Pharma veteran Dr David Setboun as its new Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer.

Dr Setboun has served for two decades at some of the biggest names in pharma. His most recent role was Vice President of Corporate Development, Strategy & Business at Life Biosciences, where he helped drive development of a range of vital commercial, operating and funding milestones.

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Blood tests that find malignancies before they spread could transform our approach to treatment

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An astrophysicist traces genealogy and art history to discover the origin of the famous motto

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The FDA has awarded marketing authorisation to Novartis for the Oral MET inhibitor Tabrecta for the first-line treatment of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer in patients whose tumors have a mutation that leads to MET exon 14 skipping (METex14), regardless of whether they have previously received any type of treatment.

GlaxoSmithKline has completed divestment of its Horlicks and other Consumer Healthcare nutrition products…

Late Wednesday, the US Food and Drug Administration said it has granted accelerated approved for Tabrecta…

The US Food and Drug Administration has granted accelerated approval for Retevmo (selpercatinib) capsules…

US pharma major AbbVie has finally completed its $63 billion acquisition of Ireland-incorporated Allergan,…

AstraZeneca has watched superstar SGLT2 diabetes med Farxiga nail trial after trial in highly coveted kidney and heart failure indications, with the FDA expediting reviews to back them up. The one thing AstraZeneca was missing? The agency taking Farxiga across the finish line. 

Phat Ngoc Tran, 35, pleaded guilty today in San Diego to conspiring to participate in a racketeering enterprise, the “Tran Organization,” in a scheme to cheat at least 12 casinos across the United States and Canada out of millions of dollars. Tran admitted that he and his co-conspirators unlawfully obtained up to $2.5 million during card cheats.

Tai Khiem Tran, 47, pleaded guilty today in San Diego to conspiring to participate in a racketeering enterprise, the “Tran Organization,” in a scheme to cheat casinos across the United States and Canada. Tran admitted that he and his co-conspirators unlawfully obtained up to $1 million during card cheats.

The Department announced today that it has entered into a consent decree with Ecolab Inc. (Ecolab) that will resolve the Department’s complaint, which was filed today, that Ecolab failed to reemploy Michigan veteran Stephen Alasin in violation of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994, as amended (USERRA). The consent decree was approved by the court today as well.

A former Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) social work associate was convicted yesterday by a jury on four counts of honest services mail fraud, violating the criminal conflict of interest statute and making a false statement to agency officials.

A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Tucson, Ariz., on federal civil rights charges related to an alleged assault on a detainee at a federal detention facility. The two-count indictment, returned on March 11, 2009, alleges that on May 10, 2006, Eduardo Moreno violated the civil rights of a federal detainee by assaulting and causing bodily injury to the individual while Moreno was on duty at the U.S. Border Patrol processing facility in Nogales, Ariz.

The Associate Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy in Hines, Ill., agreed to plead guilty to being part of a conspiracy to defraud the VA and the Small Business Administration (SBA). His wife and the temporary staffing company she founded agreed to plead guilty to participating in the same conspiracy.

Alberto Goachet, 67, a political consultant and aide to former Puerto Rico Sen. Jorge De Castro Font, was sentenced today to three months in prison, three months of home detention and three years of supervised release. Goachet pleaded guilty on Dec. 4, 2008, to a one-count information charging him with conspiring with De Castro Font and others to launder money provided by a Puerto Rico businessman to De Castro Font.

U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow today sentenced Victor Ramirez, a/k/a “Mousey,” age 30, a native of El Salvador who resided in Hyattsville, Md., to 60 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release.

Twelve defendants, including eight Uzbekistan nationals, have been charged in a 45-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Kansas City, Mo., on May 6, 2009, on RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) charges related to labor racketeering, forced labor trafficking and immigration and other violations in 14 states.

The owner of a Costa Rica-based telemarketing call center and two employees of another Costa Rica call center were sentenced for their roles in schemes that targeted and defrauded thousands of American victims of more than $10 million.

A former Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) social work associate was sentenced to three years in prison for her role in a scheme to defraud the United States of her honest services in connection with her work finding suitable housing and daily care for mentally ill and disabled military veterans and then obstructing the VA’s investigation into the fraudulent scheme.