Oceania

Australia late Saturday ended a three-day search for survivors from a refugee boat accident off remote Christmas Island, with little hope for around 90 people still missing.

JAKARTA - A boat carrying about 200 suspected asylum seekers has capsized in Indonesian waters 120 nautical miles north of Australia's Christmas Island and many are feared drowned, authorities said on Thursday.

A Sri Lankan refugee boat with 200 people believed to be on board capsized off Australia's remote Christmas Island Thursday, with police saying scores of people may have died.

On this weekend in 1975, sharks were getting a bad name from the premiere of the movie "Jaws." Today, as if on cue, there are two shark reports – in very different parts of the world – sending shivers down the backs of beachgoers everywhere.

Anna Macdonald confronted her husband Ewen after his arrest and asked him whether he killed her brother, a court has been told.

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    Population 21,507,717. Male 10,634,013. Female 10,873,704
    Median age 37
    Families 568m. Average children per family 1.9
    All private dwellings 9.11m. Average people per household 2.6
    Median weekly household income $1234
    Median monthly mortgage repayment $1800. Median weekly rent $285
    Average motor vehicles per dwelling 1.7
    Registered marriage  7,647,042 or 49.2%
    33,714 same-sex couples. 4.6 million heterosexual couples
    De facto marriage 1,476,369 or 9.5%
    Not married 6,413,399 or 41.3% 
    Top five countries of birth — Australia, England, New Zealand, China, India.

Australia all-rounder Shane Watson has backed his side to strike a crucial early blow ahead of next year's Ashes when they meet England in a forthcoming one-day series.

Hundreds of visa over-stayers and asylum seekers have scaled fences, disappeared on day release programs or simply vanished after being released into the community on bridging visas.

An Australian tourist claims she was hit in the head by a flying bottle during a violent nightclub brawl between hip-hop stars Chris Brown and Drake in New York.

The parents accused of leaving five children in a locked van while they gambled at Auckland's SkyCity casino have pleaded guilty.

Gerard Baden-Clay has appeared a second time in Brisbane Magistrates Court this morning as police prosecutors applied to take a DNA sample from the man accused of murdering his wife.

Police ruled out an extra-marital affair as the motive for Scott Guy's murder before they honed in on murder-accused Ewen Macdonald's link to vandalism attacks on the Guy property, a court has been told.