Cold calling salespeople who bullied a farming couple with one home printer into buying enough ink to last them nearly 1700 years acted illegally, a tribunal has found.

ACT climate change minister Shane Rattenbury said the looming gas supply shortage on the Australia's east coast demonstrated the vulnerability of the fossil fuel market and that the ACT's energy future lied in renewables.

The man that sparked the entitlements scandal in Victorian parliament, Telmo Languiller has taken medical leave to battle depression and high blood pressure.

The big miners dragged the sharemarket lower as commodity prices fell, while BHP and South32 traded ex-dividend.

Mario Draghi has embraced, with increasing mindfulness, the task of normalising European monetary policy.

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, said the group will work with technology companies to close gaps identified in thousands of Central Intelligence Agency documents it published this week as well as in additional material it has yet to disclose.

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Oil dropped below $US50 in New York for the first time since December on concerns about the resilience of a global glut.

Mr Trump's updated policy, which limits entry for citizens of six Muslim majority countries, is incompatible with regulations for tournament hosts, according to Gianni Infantino, president of soccer's governing body FIFA.

​Iron ore and steel futures in China fell to one-month lows. Spot iron ore slid below $U87 a tonne.

Air strikes killed 23 civilians, including eight children, on Thursday in countryside around the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, a war monitoring group said.

Shyam Acharya allegedly assumed the identity of a doctor in India, before he migrated to Australia and gained employment with NSW Health in 2003.

Underworld figure Mick Gatto claims he was approached by a senior Essendon official to help "sort out" the supplements scandal in 2014, contradicting his other assertions that he reached out to the football club.

Over the past three years, almost all of the world's reefs have experienced summertime heat stress.

As the federal government grapples with talk of an energy crisis, two tech billionaires appear to be getting a ground-breaking deal done on Twitter.

Despite a slide in global bonds, the ASX managed to finish the week higher as attention turns to a possible US rate hike.

Discounted tolls for using tollways at different times of the day are closer, with transport monopoly Transurban considering "bundled" fares that have been likened to mobile phone plan incentives.

The S&P 500 index has surged 249 per cent since it bottomed out in March 2009 – investors are asking whether the golden run can last.

The latest chapter in one of football's great unresolved fallouts unfolded this week as St Kilda hosted a small but heartfelt dinner to thank those supporters who have helped fund the historic move back to Moorabbin.

A Gungahlin man accused of using a gun to threaten an ex-partner and force her to have sex with him was refused bail on Friday.

Banks and healthcare stocks are leading the market higher, following gains by US peers overnight, while the Aussie dollar recovers above US75c.

Kaylee Stoffels believes that VCAL students at her old school were viewed as the "dumber ones".

Hazelwood workers will get an employment lifeline, with the operators of other Latrobe Valley plants agreeing to hire people left jobless after the power station closes.

When a company becomes embroiled in headlines that include young adults taking part in humiliating simulated sex act rituals, cross dressing or slithering on their bellies in a "sluggie" race as punishment for not meeting sales targets, it grabs attention.

Two men are expected to face a Queensland court on Saturday, accused of torturing and assaulting a man who was left tied to a tree in the Gold Coast hinterland.