SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea announced Monday that a woman who is a bioengineering student would become its first astronaut. She is scheduled to blast off on board a Russian Soyuz rocket on April 8 on a trip to the International Space Station that will be watched on television by millions of South Koreans. The astronaut, Yi So-yeon, 29, was selected after the Russian space Join discussion...

ADELAIDE has set a heatwave record, with the mercury rising above a scorching 35C for the ninth day in a row - and there's Join discussion...

TWO people who were lost and bogged overnight somewhere along the Coorong in the state's southeast have been found safe and well. Join discussion...

DARWIN'S former lord mayor has lost an appeal against his prison sentence for using stolen council funds to buy a refrigerator and a Darth Vader voice distorter. Join discussion...

Two boys riding bodyboards feared missing in floodwaters have been found as Queensland's emergency services chief says up to 1000 people may need evacuating from Mackay, which is now a disaster area. Join discussion...

TWO people are dead, but two more have survived a mid-air collision between a helicopter and a light aircraft in a remote part of Western Australia. Join discussion...

A MOTHER who collapsed and died after clinging to her baby son in floodwaters was "totally exhausted" when they were finally pulled from the water, police say. The 36-year-old woman and her husband had been Join discussion...

PRIMARY schools across the country are being left out of the Rudd Government's so-called Education Revolution, the national primary school peak body says. Join discussion...

A MAN has died after being struck by a tractor on a southern New South Wales farm. Read more Join discussion...

A man who killed his secret wife after an argument that began on the evening of her 19th birthday has been sentenced to 10 years' jail. Join discussion...