9:20 AM AEDT | THE Australian cricket vice-captain, Michael Clarke, has called off his wedding and ended his relationship with Lara Bingle, a friend of the model's told The Diary last night.
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9:12 AM AEDT | Clarke was tiring of the off-field commitments tied to the Australian captaincy even before the drama surrounding his fiancee, Lara Bingle, became common knowledge.
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9:05 AM AEDT | INDONESIANS and Australians need to drop their negative stereotypes of each other if the relationship between the two nations is to advance and become resilient, the Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, says.
| Yudhoyono calls for change
4:00 AM AEDT | THE domain of class thoroughbreds is usually a carnival Saturday but punters should not disregard yesterday's Canterbury meeting.
4:00 AM AEDT | WARATAHS coach Chris Hickey believes the last thing NSW should do is engage the Lions in a game of ''touch footy'' when the sides meet at the Sydney Football Stadium tomorrow night.
4:00 AM AEDT | HOLDING aloft the Premier's Plate on the last day of the regular season was a highlight of the year for Sydney FC, but it was also seen as the entree to the main course. But now they are 90 minutes from being dumped out of the finals by Wellington Phoenix.
4:00 AM AEDT | FEUDING former Pakistan captains Mohammad Yousuf and Younus Khan have been banned from representing their country for life because of their bickering during and after the disastrous tour of Australia, lowlighted by the loss of the unlosable Test at the SCG.
4:00 AM AEDT | SIX WEEKS after threatening to leave Cronulla, Paul Gallen has proved his loyalty to the club's new administration by agreeing to a two-year extension that removes clauses in his deal that had allowed him to leave before his contract expired.
4:00 AM AEDT | How can we save some of our most charismatic animals from extinction due to climate change? American biologist Camille Parmesan has a radical suggestion - move them. She talks to Suzanne Goldenberg.
4:00 AM AEDT | Don and Betty Draper, would no doubt approve; characters from the hit series Mad Men are to be immortalised in plastic. Mattel has announced it will create a limited-edition release of Barbie and Ken dolls to celebrate the Emmy Award-winning show about a fictional Madison Avenue advertising firm, Sterling Cooper, in the 1960s.
4:00 AM AEDT | A FORMER student is suing the exclusive The King's School after he was allegedly subjected to sexual assaults and daily beatings by fellow students.
4:00 AM AEDT | IN THE north-eastern corner of the Gladesville Hospital grounds, a former mental asylum once notorious for its crowded conditions and neglected inmates, is a nondescript plot where the corpses of more than 1000 former psychiatric patients lie.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE NSW government has been accused of putting people at risk from shoddy insulation work by advising occupants to conduct a do-it-yourself fire and electrocution risk assessment.
4:00 AM AEDT | STAGGERED school starting times have helped parents like Joy Poulos co-ordinate drop-off and pick-up times for children attending different schools.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE Opposition Leader, Barry O'Farrell, has pledged to put economic growth at the centre of a Coalition government plan to get NSW moving again.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE government and opposition have edged closer to a deal on changes to the youth allowance with the Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, agreeing to economic modelling on opposition amendments.
4:00 AM AEDT | PUBLIC hospitals which beat national standards on reducing patient waiting times will get bonus payments from the federal government, the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has revealed.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, now seems unlikely to meet another big election pledge - to introduce a national dental scheme.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has told the Senate to leave his proposed paid maternity leave scheme alone as the government mounts a concerted attack on increasing obstructionism in the nation's upper house
4:00 AM AEDT | BELINDA VASTA, 40, was still getting over the shock of her marriage breakdown when the pressure from Centrelink to find a job became intense. She had been a stay-at-home mother who had not worked in nine years. To support her two boys she depended on the single parenting payment.