05 Apr 09 | THE newly appointed boss of the struggling phone maker Motorola has been revealed as the US's highest-paid corporate leader, with a pay package of $US104 million ($147 million), as political heat rises over executive pay at the height of an economic downturn.
05 Apr 09 | THE head of Britain's armed forces has accused NATO allies of "failing to resource" the military mission in Afghanistan, as Prime Minister Gordon Brown agreed to send as many as 1000 more troops to the country.
05 Apr 09 | UNEMPLOYMENT in the United States jumped to its highest level in nearly 26 years , as employers shed another 663,000 jobs.
05 Apr 09 | A LONE killer armed with two handguns and a hunting knife massacred 13 people at a citizenship centre in New York State before shooting himself.
04 Apr 09 | AUSTRALIA has been excluded from a NATO leaders' summit this weekend despite repeatedly pressing for closer engagement on the war in Afghanistan.
04 Apr 09 | GORDON BROWN hailed the emergence of a new world order and Kevin Rudd declared cowboy capitalism dead following yesterday's historic agreement to hasten the end of the global recession and implement new rules and regulations to prevent it happening again.
04 Apr 09 | AUSTRALIA has been excluded from a NATO leaders' summit this weekend despite repeatedly pressing for closer engagement on the war in Afghanistan.
04 Apr 09 | THE United States apologised in 1993 for the "illegal overthrow" of Hawaii's native monarch a century earlier, but that congressional expression of regret did not give native Hawaiians a legal claim to state lands, the Supreme Court has ruled.
04 Apr 09 | AS HE faced his post-G20 news conference in London, Barack Obama was confronted with the extraordinary dilemma he faces as leader of the most powerful country and as President of the United States.
04 Apr 09 | AUSTRALIA has been excluded from a NATO leaders' summit this weekend despite repeatedly pressing for closer engagement on the war in Afghanistan.
04 Apr 09 | AUSTRALIA has warned North Korea not to proceed with its missile launch and described the move as provocative, illegal and a setback for further regional dialogue.
04 Apr 09 | BOLLYWOOD film producers are going on indefinite strike this weekend, refusing to release new films after failing to resolve differences with multiplex owners over their share of box office takings. Both sides refuse to budge.
04 Apr 09 | A decade after a massacre intended to blunt East Timor's demands for independence, Lindsay Murdoch finds that the appetite for justice continues unabated.
04 Apr 09 | Every trick in the espionage book is being employed to pick the eyes out of Australia, writes David Lague.
04 Apr 09 | It's China's paradox: the more it tries to please, the more it looks suspicious, writes John Lee.
04 Apr 09 | Knowing China is not the same as loving it - as the PM's two-step shows, write Peter Hartcher and John Garnaut.
04 Apr 09 | MORE than 600 non-government organisations have warned that three second-hand power plants under construction in East Timor may endanger the health and livelihoods of the country's 1 million people.
04 Apr 09 | The United States apologised in 1993 for the "illegal overthrow" of Hawaii's native monarch a century earlier, but that congressional expression of regret did not give native Hawaiians a legal claim to state lands, the Supreme Court has ruled.
04 Apr 09 | The Obamas' vegie patch, a symbol of the US President's focus on the environment, is alarming conservatives, writes Anne Davies in Washington.
04 Apr 09 | THE cadres of Indonesia's main Islamist party, the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), came out in force this week, staging the kind of mass rally in Jakarta that the other parties could only dream of.