SYDNEYSIDERS looking for a free spot to watch the New Year’s Eve fireworks have something to celebrate, after the State Government confirmed Barangaroo will be opened for the night and a Sydney council reversed its decision to charge admission to a public park.

A MOMENT of "stupidity" had cost a wife her husband, while two children had lost their father, a distraught Stephen Alsop said yesterday.

THE fate of South Sydney coach Jason Taylor will be decided today by the eight members of the Rabbitohs board, including a chief executive in Shane Richardson who has previously stated his disgust for Mad Monday celebrations.

JANUARY 26 is a historic date in our country's history. It marks the very beginnings of white settlement and while indigenous Australians also mark the day, their reasons for remembering it are quite different.

AMERICA'S first openly gay Episcopalian bishop, Gene Robinson, has been asked to give the invocation at the welcoming celebrations on Sunday at the Lincoln Memorial, amid controversy in the gay community over Barack Obama's selection for the blessing at the inauguration ceremony on Tuesday.