It’s lunch time!
The morning’s over and you need that little boost to energise you through the rest of the day. That’s where the lunch box comes in – interesting news, ideas for the evening and the all-important weather, in one neat package.
Channel latest
- Siemens has found a medical specialist reseller to partner with to bring its HiPath HiMed healthcare solution nationally, Rauland Australia
- ICT Networks has appointed its first managing director, Rob Kingma
- Ingram Micro and Upsonic have partnered up as a result of the Vantex acquisition.
State of the market
- The market has reversed the upward trend of the previous two days and is tracking downwards. At 11:21am, the S&P/ASX200 was down 38.1 points
- The Aussie dollar has slightly dipped to $US0.8695 while gold is down more than half a point to $US1013.5 an ounce. Oil is largely steady and trading at $US72.5 a barrel
General news
- Most wanted: Rudd praises Indonesia following death of terror kingpin
- Rip-off: The $1m meter maid
- Media wars: Battle lines drawn in fight for Fairfax
- PNG plane crash: Report released
- Bush's office: Tell us what you think, dubya
- McGurk murder: Police seize guns from ex-boxer
- Fairfax battle: Stoush heats up as directors back Walker
- Content Google slams Murdoch plan to charge for online news
- Teed off: Man litters park with 3000 golf balls
- Coming soon: Robo-panda!
Sport
- Cricket: Strauss abused as Tim causes England more Paine
- NRL: Behind enemy lines - life as a woman sports reporter
- NRL (2): The finals' game-breakers and playmakers
- AFL: Collingwood rolls dice on Scott Pendlebury
- AFL (2): The X-factor keeping Saints on paddock
- They knew: Semenya forced into an examination
- new Neill finds a home
- Tennis: Clijsters to play Brisbane International
- C'mon Bernard: Tomic trots out swine flu for Hewitt snub
Entertainment
- Pearl Jam: How Eddie Vedder survived the band's success (feature interview)
- <i>Fame</i>: Gonna learn how to fly, high
- <i>This Is It</i>: Michael Jackson movie trailer released (watch it!)
- Celebrity red carpet watch: A week of glamour (slideshow)
- Value-for-money: Upscaling the lounge room
- Some Type Of Wonderful 2010: A trip through text and type
- Field Day 2010: Line-up announced
- Top 10: The best Monty Python moments - or are they ? (watch!)
For the weekend:
- Be spontaneous this weekend. Flights are cheap, so between Tiger Airways, Rex, Virgin Blue, Qantas, Skywest and Airnorth you should be able to get away somewhere random for a few days
Tomorrow's weather:
- Sydney: Fine. Mostly sunny. Min: 15, Max: 24
- Melbourne: Shower or two developing. Min: 10, Max: 21
- Brisbane: Fine. Min: 17, Max: 27
- Perth: Morning shower or two. Min: 9, Max: 19
- Adelaide: Fine. Partly cloudy. Min: 11, Max: 20
- Hobart: Mainly fine. Min: 10, Max: 18
- Canberra: Fine, partly cloudy. Min: 7, Max: 20
- Darwin: Fine, mostly sunny. Min: 24, Max: 34
