 | | NewsMail Morning Edition Wed 13 Aug, 2014 | Top Stories | | More Top Stories » |   Tony Abbott says Australian forces are ready to join the humanitarian effort in northern Iraq, as the UN calls for the global community to take "urgent" action to avoid a genocide against the Yazidi community. The UN says up to 30,000 Yazidis are still stuck on a mountaintop in north Iraq with little food or water, in a "tragedy of huge proportions". Kurdish and Iraqi forces are continuing their efforts to get them off Mount Sinjar, while US and other Western aircraft have dropped supplies. But there was a setback to the rescue effort overnight when a helicopter crashed on Mount Sinjar, killing the pilot and injuring an Iraqi MP and an American journalist. More » | | | 
| | More Analysis » |  The US having a lower unemployment rate than Australia for the first time in seven years is not the cause for alarm that it might at first seem. You need to take into account that the headline 6.4 per cent figure is seasonally adjusted, and then there's the whole participation rate angle as well. This doesn't mean that Australia's employment situation is going along swimmingly - it certainly is not - but don't panic yet. More » | | | Just In | | More Just In » | | Police are hoping a new $100,000 reward will help them solve the murder of a long-time AC/DC manager Crispin Dye, 21 years ago. More » | | | World | | More World » |  Papua New Guinea's Ombudsman Commission has referred the Prime Minister Peter O'Neill to prosecutors for alleged misconduct in office. More » | | | Business | | More Business » | | By Emily Bourke  Legal firm Maurice Blackburn is today lodging court action to claim back hundreds of millions of dollars in fees for bank customers. Any Australian bank customer who has ever been charged a late credit card fee is about to be included in what could be one of the country's biggest class actions. Action against NAB, the Commonwealth and American Express is expected to follow. Customers who have been slapped with a late fee do not have to register for the class action, and there is no limit on how far back in time the fees could be recovered. Gerard Brody from the Consumer Action Law Centre says potentially hundreds of thousands of people will benefit. More » | | | Politics | | More Politics » |  A horticultural project that uses seawater to grow vegetables, Sundrop Farms, will be expanded with the backing of South Australia's Port Augusta Council. More » | | | Sport | | More Sport » |  Adelaide City set an early benchmark for FFA Cup upsets with a shock 1-0 win over A-League giants Western Sydney Wanderers. More » | | | Science and Technology | | More Science and Technology » |  It has been a popular belief for over a century now that humans aren't fulfilling their intellectual potential. The idea has proved popular in Hollywood too, with Luc Besson's latest film, Lucy, using it as a major plot device. But is the claim we are only using 10 per cent of our brains fact or fiction? More » | | | Environment | | More Environment » |  News Corp executive chairman Rupert Murdoch says Australia should approach climate change with great scepticism. In a recent interview, Mr Murdoch said: "At the moment the North Pole is melting a bit, but the South Pole is getting bigger". ABC Fact Check investigates what is happening in the two polar regions. More » | | | | You received this email because you are subscribed to ABC News email alerts. This message was sent to you at starnewsposting@gmail.com Please add newslists@your.abc.net.au to your email address book to see images by default and stop the email being treated as spam. This email address is not monitored - Please don't reply to this email. Manage your preferences | Unsubscribe | Contact Us | | This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. | |
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