A woman who concealed the births of four stillborn babies and kept three of them in her wardrobe for two decades was spared a jail sentence today.

Salvage crews at a damaged coal carrier stuck on the Great Barrier Reef today began pumping fuel oil from the stricken vessel onto another barge to carry it away and prevent it from leaking onto the delicate reef.

The crew of a coal-carrying ship that ran aground on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and is leaking oil will be questioned today about why their vessel was in a restricted area, an official said.