A Melbourne primary school staff member has been suspended amid allegations of "inappropriate" touching of students, the Department of Education has confirmed.

Sites will be blocked but Aussies will escape punishment for illicit downloading under proposals.

The Asian Cup dream of Mitch Nichols is over, with the Perth Glory midfielder set to miss up to eight weeks with a torn hamstring.

The ACT Brumbies or an Olympic Games? That is the agonising choice Tom Cusack had to make between his childhood dream and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to chase a gold medal in Rio.

Share losses have accelerated, as the big banks take another hit, but BHP is the main drag on the benchmark index amid the listing of South32.

Malcolm Turnbull would do well to remember most urgent advice drummed into children about looking right and left because when he steps off the kerb in the 45th parliament, he's as likely to get cleaned up by the Karma bus as he is to get safely to the other side.

The young man with the baseball cap was bidding like a winner.

Raheem Sterling eased the pressure on under-fire manager Brendan Rodgers as Liverpool defeated Championship leaders Bournemouth 3-1 to book a League Cup semi-final with Chelsea.

Casey, Canberra's latest pop-up suburb, is well on the way to getting a town market of its own.

Australians are the second-highest users of antidepressant medications among 33 nations, with 89 per 1000 people taking them. And they're readily available.