Australians will continue working in Saudi Arabia despite an Australian engineer being shot dead in an attack probably linked to al-Qaida, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said today.

A man has tested positive for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Singapore, health officials said.

A SENIOR Minister’s call for the Labour Party to consider severing its links with trade unions has been dismissed by the party as a “diversionary tactic” aimed at deflecting attention from the controversy surrounding corporate donations.