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Australian PM Julia Gillard has called for a leadership ballot to settle "once and for all" who should lead the Labor party and country.

Representatives from more than fifty governments and international organisations to attend London conference on the future of Somalia.

The government will launch its Pathways to Work initiative later today.

The Obama administration has proposed a full review of America's corporation tax rates, and suggests cutting the headline rate from 35%

NAMA has reversed 31 of 50 asset transfers by its largest debtors, with the highest single transfer reversed worth €30m.

85-year-old Belfast-born comedian Frank Carson has died after a battle with stomach cancer.

Customs officers seized 27,400 cigarettes with an estimated retail value of €12,467 at Dublin Airport.

The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner has criticised the lack of notice given by Dublin City Council to customers about the transfer of its waste collection service.

Ratings agency Fitch has warned that a Greek default is still "highly likely".

A number of residents of Belmayne in Dublin may have to move out of their homes so that fire safety defects can be repaired.

A Meath man has claimed that he was discriminated against by a company which advertised jobs saying staff must be able to speak Portuguese.

It's been announced that 19 Peacocks' stores are to close in Northern Ireland

A Turkish court has further remanded in custody a waiter accused of murdering two women from Co Down.

The trial of two Limerick brothers charged with threatening to kill four people has been told that one of them, Wayne Dundon, told a woman his brother would pay someone to kill her son.

Salvage workers have found four more bodies on the wreck of the Costa Concordia.

At least 49 people are reported to have died and over 600 injured when a packed commuter train crashed at a station in Buenos Aires.

The Treasury Holdings Group of companies is insolvent and past the point of commercial rescue, according to NAMA.

Hospitals in four counties are introducing a smoke-free campus policy to mark National No Smoking Day.

A court in Longford has heard that somebody is going to be killed if threats continue to be made on YouTube between members of feuding Traveller families.

A spill for a truck caused a number of minor collisions and traffic disruption in Cork city and county this morning.