Sydney Morning Herald: Australia has capped two years of extraordinary warmth with 2014 declared the third hottest on record just 12 months after 2013 smashed annual highs, the Bureau of Meteorology said. No year since 1985 has observed a below-average global mean temperature and all of the 10 warmest years have occurred between 1998 and the present. Mean temperatures across the country in 2014 came in 0.91 degrees above the 1961-1990 average, behind only 2013 and 2005. Melbourne posted its equal warmest year on record...