13 Apr 09 | Survivors of Italy's devastating earthquake had a grim weekend as Easter Sunday dawned after many salvaged what they could from their abandoned homes.
On Saturday, rescue workers said no one remai...
13 Apr 09 | The two founders of Skype are seeking to buy back the hugely popular internet telephone service they sold to online auction giant eBay in 2005, according to US media reports.
Niklas Zennstrom, of ...
13 Apr 09 | Toyota Motor, the world's biggest car maker, is expected to suffer a second consecutive annual loss because of the global economic slump and a stronger yen, Japan's Nikkei Daily reports.
Toyota's ...
13 Apr 09 | Tens of thousands of people packed St Peter's Square as Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass for Easter Sunday, the most joyous day on the church calendar.
The piazza, decorated with yellow tulips, b...
12 Apr 09 | FIJI was plunged deeper into chaos yesterday after military chief Commodore Frank Bainimarama was reappointed Prime Minister just 24 hours after its President scrapped the constitution and assumed executive power.
12 Apr 09 | TORNADOES in the United States have killed at least five people, injured dozens and left hundreds homeless.
11 Apr 09 | FIJI'S President has assumed control and fired the judges who a day earlier had declared the military government illegal, deepening the troubled South Pacific country's political turmoil.
11 Apr 09 | THE Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell, made use of one of the holiest days in the Christian calender yesterday to support the Pope's controversial claim that condoms worsen the spread of HIV and AIDS.
11 Apr 09 | THE world's biggest election is about to begin, but there are fears terrorism could spoil India's festival of democracy.
11 Apr 09 | Renewing acquaintances with a convicted traitor, one finds the salmon is not the only thing fishy about Israel's subjugation of Mordechai Vanunu.
11 Apr 09 | AS THE FBI and US Navy continued delicate negotiations with Somali pirates holding an American captain in a lifeboat drifting in the Indian Ocean, a second pirate boat has reportedly sped to the scene.
11 Apr 09 | WHEN Kim Jong-il last went abroad, in January 2006, he met each of China's top nine leaders. The North Korean strongman's secret eight-day tour was in an "unofficial" capacity and yet he received red carpet treatment, the likes of which no other foreign leader has received in modern times.
11 Apr 09 | A STRONG showing in national elections presents the President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, with an opportunity to cast off his ultra-cautious approach to politics and policy-making and mark out a reformist agenda.
11 Apr 09 | AUSTRALIA is set to send more armed forces to Afghanistan - most likely about 120 - to help protect voters from attack by insurgents when they go to the polls in August.
11 Apr 09 | THE Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has condemned the decision by Fiji's President, Ratu Josefa Iloilo, to abrogate the country's constitution, calling it a grave and unwelcome development and warning it could lead to the country being expelled from the regional forum of Pacific nations.
11 Apr 09 | RATU JOSEFA ILOILO has taken his nation over the precipice. All pretence of acting within the law has been stripped away, and the future of Fiji left profoundly uncertain.
11 Apr 09 | THE US ship captain being held hostage in a lifeboat by pirates off Somalia has failed to escape by jumping off the boat.
11 Apr 09 | An Australian cares for some of the countless homeless children in Addis Ababa.
11 Apr 09 | Finger pointing began within hours of the Italy earthquake, but this is a national malaise.
10 Apr 09 | State of political flux as Ratu Josefa Iloilo appoints himself head of state.