Top stories – Friday 8 April 2016
Pressure on ex-banker Turnbull to call royal commission into the banks
The government has ruled out a royal commission on the banking centre. Many of our top economists say that’s the soft option. Read more
Sam Newman’s snide welcome to The Footy Show’s first female host
Rebecca Maddern is a highly accomplished, award-winning journalist. So the 70-year-old decided he’d try to take her down a peg. Read more
Whyalla Wipeout: fears once-proud ‘Steel City’ will become ghost town
Residents of the South Australian town say any intervention to save the steelworks is too little, too late, with 1600 jobs on the line. Read more
Australian socialite ‘violated’ and extorted by foreign hackers
Instagram queen Rozalia Russian was forced to pay a ransom to retrieve her hacked account – here’s how you can avoid it. Read more
Doctors issue warning to anti-vaxxers after Measles outbreak detected
The World Health Organisation declared Australia free of the highly contagious virus in 2014. This discovery could change that. Read more
60 Minutes crew detained in Lebanon after ‘filming child snatchers’
Veteran reporter Tara Brown and three of her crew languish in a police station in Beirut, caught in the middle of a bitter dispute. Read more
Revealed: two simple ways to lose weight without breaking a sweat
Feel you should be exercising more but can’t find the time? Scientists used 69,000 people in 64 countries to come up with an answer. Read more
The best Panama Papers cartoons from around the world
The world’s artists are having a field day with the Panama Papers financial scandal. And Vladimir Putin is one of their main targets. Read more
These are the designer dog breeds you should be wary of buying
People are looking for these ‘fashionable’ pooches in large numbers. They’re perpetuating problems few know about. Read more
Matthew Suckling: ‘I’m nervous and expecting plenty of boos’
The new Bulldog writes exclusively for The New Daily, revealing how tough it was to leave Hawthorn ahead of Sunday’s AFL blockbuster. Read more
‘Too soon’: Hollywood risks it with movie about Boston bombings
A teen heart-throb is putting his squeaky clean image on the line to play a terrorist in Mark Wahlberg’s upcoming film. Read more
Charlie Pickering vents spleen at Waleed Aly nomination
Star has a few choice words for the man who inherited his job at The Project: ‘If anyone should be angry about this, it should be me.’ Read more
Jason Day says he would ‘die a happy man’ if he could win the Masters
He enters the contest as World No.1 and favourite. But he has a few rivals to worry about, including another resurgent Aussie. Read more