10:41 AM AEDT | TWO children and a man have died and another man is in a critical condition after a five-year-old boy is thought to have accidentally pushed the pram of his three-year-old brother into the water on the South Coast.  | AUDIO: Father, sons die in wharf tragedy

1:00 AM AEDT | Executives from the big three American car companies - General Motors, Ford and Chrysler - will make a direct plea to Congress today for a multibillion-dollar lifeline, warning that bankruptcy and lay-offs of hundreds of thousands loom without government help.