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Tonight, a passenger train plunges into a river in Kenya, killing a hundred.
Four people killed in a single car accident at Hindmarsh,
and Jim Currier wins his second Australian Open title.
Good evening, Paul Higgins with ABC News.
A desperate search is underway in Kenya after a passenger train plunged into a flooded river.
More than a hundred people are feared dead, but it's hoped many will be found alive in the flood waters.
Among the survivors, an Australian girl who escaped with minor injuries while a companion was killed.
Packed with 600 people, the train was travelling from Mombasa to Nairobi when disaster struck.
Heavy rains had washed away a bridge near the town of Darajani, several carriages plunging into the swollen river.
One was swept two kilometres downstream.
For Melbourne teenager Leah Kerr, it was a terrifying experience.
I woke up at about three o'clock as the carriage was going down into the water.
It was a huge jolt and we got thrown around a bit.
We climbed out the window and sat on top of the train.
My mind was just blank.
I was just concentrating on hopefully getting out alive.
The 15-year-old was on a trip organised by World Youth International.
I think we're very fortunate in that one of the host parents of the teenager was a person in the armed forces.
They arranged a helicopter to fly to the accident scene and picked up their luggage and the two teenagers and took them up to Nairobi.
The girls have rejoined 30 others in their tour group and are due back in Australia on Tuesday.
While 57 bodies have been recovered, it's feared the death toll will rise to more than 100, making it Kenya's worst rail disaster.
More tragedy on South Australia's roads over the holiday weekend, with four young people losing their lives in a single car accident overnight.
Killed were a 20-year-old man and two women aged 17 and 20, all from Allenby Gardens, and a 22-year-old woman from Croydon.
They died when their car ran out of control in Manton Street in the inner suburb of Hindmarsh.
One nearby resident has been campaigning for seven years for improvements to the nearby intersection.
The early model Toyota Celica had been travelling along Grange Road towards the city and passed through the South Road intersection and into Manton Street.
The vehicle left the road on a slight curve, sideswiped two trees, before flipping into the air and hitting a double-brick wall about one and a half metres off the ground,
roof first. The four occupants were killed instantly.
Emergency service teams had to cut the roof off the vehicle to remove the bodies.
The building, which houses a micro-filming business, was badly damaged and the wall may have to be demolished.
Thousands of dollars of high-tech equipment was smashed beyond repair.
Today, one resident, who lives on the intersection bordering the crash site, spoke out.
Shocking is not the word if you're a little horrific. It's a little high cost. It shouldn't have happened. It's a dangerous intersection.
Mr Szymanski says he's been frustrated by bureaucracy, which he claims has prevented him from selling his house
and for seven years has written to numerous government bodies warning of the dangers of the South Road intersection.
Let's do something about it now, otherwise there's going to be more deaths on this road, at this intersection as well.
I continue now, but I'm moving out of here.
Mr Szymanski is still waiting for a detailed response to the latest letter he sent last November to the Premier.
This afternoon, an adviser to Transport Minister Barbara Weiss said Mr Szymanski's complaints would be fully investigated.
That $65,000 payment to House Speaker Leo McClay for falling off a bicycle is to be reviewed by the Senate.
The Democrats today agreed to support the opposition call for a public inquiry.
But the government has again been taking the fight to John Hewson with the launch today of Labor's first television advertisements against the GST.
Queensland is a crucial state for the Labor Party. It needs to pick up seats here to offset likely losses in South Australia and Western Australia.
So the campaign is starting early. The Queensland Labor Party is hitting the airwaves tonight with a campaign to mark the start of the school year tomorrow.
Back to school is an expensive time for parents. Uniforms, shoes, hats, books, swimming lessons, haircuts, the list goes on.
But with Dr Hewson's new 15% GST, how much more expensive would it be?
The man behind the ads is one of the Labor Party's most successful tacticians.
And like other Labor leaders, he believes the opposition's GST is now more vulnerable since the revelations about John Hewson's own tax arrangements.
Taxation is central to this campaign. The fact that the leader of the opposition has paid half the average tax that's paid by ordinary mums and dads who are sending their kids back to school is relevant.
The ongoing campaign also has the support of the party's president.
If he hadn't raised the question of tax as being central to the GST, that would be another matter. But in fact, it is absolutely central to his whole campaign approach.
But the Liberal Party is confident the tactic will backfire.
The campaign against the GST is scaremongering, desperation politics, and they ought to get out there and explain how they're going to fix the mess they've created.
The opposition is also fighting back by stepping up its own attack on the Prime Minister's mate, Speaker Leo McClay.
The opposition is now demanding a full Senate inquiry into the $65,000 compensation payment received by Mr. McClay after falling off a Parliament House bicycle.
The opposition says the payout included $10,000 for loss of income because Mr. McClay's injuries would affect his ability to pursue his former occupation as a telecom technician,
a job he left to enter politics 17 years ago.
For the sake of the integrity of the Parliament, there ought to be a full and open disclosure as to the way in which that payment was made.
The Democrats have agreed to join the opposition and force an inquiry on one condition.
Yes, we would support an inquiry. We would support an inquiry after the election and not before the election.
Both parties stress they aren't accusing Mr. McClay of any wrongdoing, but they are concerned at the processes under which such a payment was allowed.
Qantas is shaping up for an industrial fight over the strike disrupting international airline services.
It's issued an ultimatum to 600 members of the Transport Workers Union, either abandon industrial action or face dismissal.
Thousands of passengers have been stranded since a sudden walkout yesterday by Qantas baggage handlers in Sydney.
The strikers are being accused of damaging Sydney's Olympic Games chances,
and the federal opposition has entered the dispute talking of banning strikes in essential services.
At a meeting early this morning, striking airport workers were in no mood for compromise.