DR David Agus doesn’t sit while talking to me on the phone from his California-based office. “I’m walking around with headphones as we talk,” says Agus, professor of medicine at the University of Southern California (USC) Keck School of Medicine and author of a new book, The End of Illness.

Dennis Hopper is terminally ill and unable to undergo chemotherapy as he battles prostate cancer, his lawyer wrote in a court filing.

A powerful earthquake sent a two-metre high tsunami crashing into a beach resort on Indonesia's Java island today, killing at least six people and causing extensive damage to hotels, restaurants and homes, police and witnesses said.

THE inaugural All Plast Sales Unraced Stake swings into action at Curraheen Park tonight.

At least 50 people, nearly all of them schoolchildren, have been killed after their bus crashed head-on into a lorry on a busy Indonesian road, police said today.