April 11, 2013 Global drug giant Novartis has confirmed it has begun an "internal investigation" into a five-year deal it signed with a CSIRO spin-off company to buy an anti-counterfeit technology which the CSIRO and its partner knew could be compromised.

April 11, 2013 Australia's domestic spy agency has lost a legal battle to censor the details of alleged foreign espionage activities by a friendly nation.

April 11, 2013 High speed rail would be the best.

April 11, 2013 DataDot Technology Ltd, a partner company to the CSIRO, has been placed in a trading halt by the Australian Securities Exchange after a Herald investigation revealed it and the country's peak scientific body had duped one of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies in a major transaction.

April 11, 2013 Essendon coach James Hird has been accused of injecting a WADA-blacklisted drug in a program where his players were given another substance anti-doping regulators now say should be banned.

April 11, 2013 Logos have to work no matter if they are the size of a building or postage stamp.

April 11, 2013 About 3 per cent of doctors are known to be 'frequent flyers' among health commissioners investigating complaints, the largest ever medico-legal study conducted in Australia has revealed.

April 11, 2013 Just two decades ago with a dial-up internet connection it would've taken more than a lifetime to download a single movie, while today's 24 megabits per second (Mbps) ADSL2+ broadband connections can pull down multiple HD movie streams simultaneously.

April 11, 2013 The CSIRO has duped one of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies into buying anti-counterfeit technology that could be easily compromised - passing off cheap chemicals it had bought from China as a ''trade secret'' formula.

April 11, 2013 A Frenchman has insisted on his innocence as he appealed his conviction for murdering an Australian student who was beaten, strangled and dumped in a car park outside Paris.