1:28 AM AEDT | "THE only thing we have to fear is fear itself." It was the US president Franklin D. Roosevelt who, in the Great Depression, coined the phrase but Australia's Reserve Bank governor, Glenn ...

1:00 AM AEDT | SOMALI pirates who hijacked the Saudi oil supertanker Sirius Star are demanding $US25 million ($39 million) in ransom, while plans have emerged for additional warships from 10 European countries and Russia to converge on the region to tackle the pirate problem.