CREDITORS of the collapsed telephone company One.Tel have launched a fresh assault on the insurance company CGU in a battle that began in the NSW Supreme Court eight years ago and has been three times to the Court of Appeal and twice to the High Court.

JUST as Judge Sonia Sotomayor prepares to face the US Senate Judiciary Committee for a confirmation hearing, the Supreme Court, which she hopes to join, has reversed one of her most high-profile decisions.

THE five Australians stuck in the remote Indonesian town of Merauke for the past nine months have been cleared of any wrongdoing by Indonesia's Supreme Court, paving the way for their freedom and return home.

A FORMER policeman, Mark Standen, could face life imprisonment after being committed to stand trial for allegedly conspiring to import and supply drugs.

THE five Australians who have been stuck in the remote Indonesian town of Merauke for nine months have been cleared and are free to return home after the country's Supreme Court yesterday upheld an earlier court decision to release them.