12:00 AM AEST | A DEFIANT Morris Iemma will sell parts of the state's electricity assets under a face-saving proposal that does not require Parliament's approval.

12:00 AM AEST | Barack Obama made a surprise entrance at the Democratic National Convention in Denver yesterday and was greeted by ecstatic crowds after an emotion-charged day in which former president Bill Clinton endorsed his wife's once-rival and Hillary Clinton showed enormous loyalty to the presidential candidate.