• Employers agree to join social partners in talks on inflation

  A breakdown in the Programme for Prosperity and Fairness appeared less likely last night after employers agreed to join the Government and the social partners in new talks.

• Fired-up O'Sullivan takes command of everything

  Ah. This was the girl we used to know long ago, fire in the brown eyes and a hunger for battle in the hard skillet of her stomach. Sonia O'Sullivan bossed the field in the first heat of the 5,000 metres here in Homebush Bay last night, then bounded off the track and bossed the media.

• More help for euro expected from G7 meeting

  Finance ministers from the main industrial nations are expected today to send a strong message of support for the euro to the markets, in an effort to give further aid to the beleaguered currency.

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