POLICE are investigating claims that Des Moran was involved in a violent confrontation with the two women charged over his murder just weeks before he was shot dead on Monday in the Melbourne suburb of Ascot Vale.

* Britain carried out tests, recorded on film, to show the integration of air and ground warfare. The Royal Air Force had just carried out its first independent operation, against the mountain strongholds of tribesmen in South Waziristan, Pakistan. But it was decided soldiers were too exposed to bullets from..read more

UNIVERSITY suspect they have found a chink in the Shoalhaven armour heading into this afternoon's Illawarra rugby union duel at University Oval.

A CHINK in the armour of CBD office markets has appeared. It's not deep enough to cause concern but landlords have moved the indicator to the top of their watching briefs.

A customs crackdown is foiling the importation of illicit weapons. Mark Russell reports.