US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew into Perth tonight for a two-day visit as a guest of Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith.

A SYDNEY woman is in hospital after being shot with a spear gun, police say, with a man in custody over the incident.

A BUS driver and one of his passengers are fighting for their lives after their bus collided with a semi-trailer on a main Victorian highway.

THE Australian dollar closed weaker today after the New Zealand central bank cut interest rates for the first time in five years, fuelling speculation that rates on this side of the Tasman would fall some time over the next 12 months.

TODD Russell and Brant Webb hope the final chapter is now being written in the story of their miraculous survival at the Beaconsfield gold mine.

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Rain has spread a long way across Queensland in the last few days, further and heavier than in a normal July.

Twelve people are dead or missing after the heaviest rain in centuries hit parts of central China, state media reported.

There have been record falls of rain along the Queensland coast in the past 24 hours.

After a drier than normal June and first half of July nearly all of the Southwest Land Division is getting some welcome rain.