The United States is making a gigantic investment in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, billed by its advocates as the next - by their count the fifth - generation of air-to-air and air-to-ground combat aircraft.

... And finally, we come to the document's almost Biblical central switcheroo, in which Mr Swan converted billions of company-tax-cut dollars into loaves and fishes for the masses.

The ABC's 7.30 program has found bitter factional in-fighting was triggered by the purported move by Mr Costello, who demanded a young MP step aside to accommodate him.

Secret CIA video tapes of the waterboarding of Osama Bin Laden's suspected jihadist travel arranger Abu Zubaydah show him vomiting and screaming, the BBC has learned.

Kelly Thomas repeatedly apologized to Fullerton police officers, saying he was "sorry" as they continued to pummel him with their fists and batons, a dramatic video of the July 5 beating of the homeless man reveals.

The grainy black-and-white video, shown Monday on the first day of a preliminary hearing for two Fullerton police officers charged in the case, shows a shirtless Thomas being repeatedly struck.

Hillary Clinton Admits the US Government Created al-Qaeda

Labor has made a $5 billion pitch to its heartland, splashing cash hand-outs and tax breaks on families and low income earners in the federal budget.

But the bonanza has come at the expense of business with the government abandoning its promised one per cent company tax cut.

A French 1983 smart telephone card — picture by Gus Leonisky

Craig Thompson repeatedly provided false and misleading information during the course of a long investigation into the national office of the Health Services Union, a Fair Work Australia report has found.

In the movie "The Pirates in an Adventure with Scientists", the main pirate is a kind-hearted fool... He sinks the Beagle in a competition with some other pirates, but then sails Darwin back to England...

Lots of laughter and sharp jokes about science, apparently...

The bad joke here is that Tony Abbott is a sad annoying pirate — a fool who is still trying to sink the Beagle with no intention of saving Darwin from drowning... He can smell blood as Pirate Crook joins his team... He is taken aback a little by some of his bloodied crew — Pyne and Brough — who in their desire to sink the slipper, shot themselves in the foot... Idiots.