World News
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.
10 Apr 09 | The US navy rush in FBI negotiators and a destroyer as Somali pirates hold an American hostage on a lifeboat on the Indian Ocean.
10 Apr 09 | US President Barack Obama is asking lawmakers for $US83.4 billion more to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through 2009, White House aides say.
10 Apr 09 | Around 35 Tibetan exiles were arrested after they staged a peaceful demonstration carrying anti-China banners in Nepal's capital, police said on Thursday.
10 Apr 09 | President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday inaugurated Iran's first nuclear fuel plant, marking a major breakthrough in the Islamic republic's controversial atomic program.
10 Apr 09 | THREE Sydney barristers sitting as Fiji's Court of Appeal have found that the 2006 military coup was unconstitutional and have ordered that democracy be restored by holding fresh elections.
10 Apr 09 | BRITAIN'S top counter-terrorism police commander has resigned following a security blunder which triggered premature arrests in a long-running investigation.
10 Apr 09 | LONDON: Three British executives were taken hostage by militant workers in France hours after the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, pledged to outlaw what
10 Apr 09 | ON THE eve of her first formal talks with Australian ministers, the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, said the US had few better friends than Australia and the Rudd Government was a "a joy" to work with.