The knives are already out and sharpened for a seasonal trimming of league's tall poppies

Rugby league's negative culture of handicapping the premiers was born out of St George's 11 successive premierships. Since that time, every measure in the game has been designed to pull the champions down, rather than to encourage clubs to aspire to their level.

Obama reaches for a lifeline

The US President has shaken off his loser image as he fights, hustings-style, for a new healthcare program. Simon Mann reports.

Patterns back in vogue

There was a time when most women had some degree of dressmaking skill and this was reflected by the wide array of patterns.

LETTERS

In defence of cricket equality

Deal allows News to sell Storm as going concern

NEWS Ltd is set to retain ownership of the Storm until after the club ends making losses in 2013 as part of a deal for the media group and the ARL to hand control of the game to an independent commission.

BMW X5

This soft-roader blazed an early trail in the segment.

Ted Kennedy, tarnished but true liberal hero

EDWARD Moore Kennedy, senior US Senator for Massachusetts, lived a life that seemed to epitomise all the contradictions of his famous family. Senator Kennedy, who died yesterday aged 77, after a year-long struggle with a brain tumour, was not able to pursue the same presidential ambitions as his older brothers John Fitzgerald and Robert Francis. But neither did he succumb, as they did, to an assassin's bullets.

Dangerous new species

TRAIN travel is fraught with danger. Rail carriages are infested. Infection is everywhere.

Head to Head - Nissan Murano v Subaru Tribeca

NISSAN MURANO

Pasfield Drafted: Nash Set To Cover

DANIEL Nash will be the man in the hot seat when Wollongong FC take on Sydney Olympic in round two of the NSW Premier League at Belmore Sports Ground on Saturday night.