A day that was supposed to see Mitt Romney reboot his faltering presidential campaign ended in disarray last night, after he was caught telling a room full of wealthy donors “my job is not to worry” about attempting to appeal to poor people.

Shares in Fortescue Metals have soared after the iron ore miner was handed a $4.26 billion lifeline by its creditors, which will delay its earliest debt repayments until November 2015.

By all signs, it appears that the whole of planet Earth has at once decided to shun nuclear energy. The popular sentiment was definitely negative towards the use of nuclear power, and now it seems that governments have had to bow to people’s wishes.

IT'S a tough competition to see which of Australia's political leaders can be more disliked but Tony Abbott has now clinched a big lead.

Abbott is more than twice as widely disliked as Julia Gillard, which is quite a feat; while the Prime Minister's net approval rating in today's Herald-Nielsen poll is minus 11, the opposition leader's is minus 23.

''This is the lowest for an opposition leader since August 2009, when Malcolm Turnbull was in the middle of the Godwin Grech affair and it was all falling apart for him,'' says John Stirton, of Nielsen.

Indeed, voters are looking on Turnbull with growing favour to replace Abbott.

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Aesop tells the story of the North Wind and the Sun: who is the stronger?

‘Hello, my name is Andrew & I’m here to help.’

Now I know that many of you were shocked by the wicked behaviour of around 100 Muslim demonstrators in Sydney this week, but don’t worry, we have the situation under control.

Weather pushes allergy and asthma miseries to new level

Church leaders have hit back angrily at controversial claims by a prominent gay activist that Anglican archbishops of Sydney die younger than the rest of the community.