12/10/2008 | AUSTRALIA will stand tall with world leaders today and forge a package of domestic measures to stave off further economic panic before the sharemarkets open tomorrow.
12/10/2008 | IT WAS a tragedy compounded by distance, obfuscation and devastating error. For two weeks, Britt Lapthorne's family's fears intensified as a nation's fascination grew with the compelling story of one of its young lost in a distant land.
12/10/2008 | DEMOCRAT Barack Obama has soared 11 points ahead of Republican rival John McCain, taking a double-digit lead in a Newsweek poll amid deep concerns about the economy.
11/10/2008 | THEY are a new breed of true believers: Australians so captivated by American presidential candidate Barack Obama's promise of "change we can believe in" that they are doing everything they can to help get him elected.
11/10/2008 | The Eurovision song contest is one less than flattering assessment in senior Australian government circles of the European military effort in Afghanistan. It concerns the cluster of nations whose troo...
11/10/2008 | NEPAL may have elected a Maoist Government and become an officially secular republic but it still gets off on old-time religion.
11/10/2008 | AUSTRALIA will reassess its commitment to Afghanistan next April amid growing evidence the war there is going badly, senior Government sources say.
11/10/2008 | JOHANNESBURG: Zimbabwe's inflation rate has surged to 231 million per cent as the Opposition appealed to South Africa's former president, Thabo Mbeki, to rescue the power-sharing deal he brokered last month with the President, Robert Mugabe.
11/10/2008 | TROUBLE appears to be brewing in East Timor again as security forces step up roadblocks and increase security around government buildings.
11/10/2008 | The former foreign minister is surprising many in his role in Cyprus.
10/10/2008 | The American military is fighting a rearguard action to preserve gains made in Iraq.
10/10/2008 | John McCain says voters should factor in his rival's association with Bill Ayers when assessing his willingness to fight terrorism.
10/10/2008 | TURNING families out of their homes is the most distressing job on the agenda for Chicago's Cook County sheriff, Tom Dart, and he is refusing to do it any more.
10/10/2008 | A month is an eternity in American presidential politics. One short month ago, John McCain awoke to the happy news that his instantly infamous choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate had vaulted him...
10/10/2008 | THE President of Russia has called on Europe's leaders to create a new world order that would minimise the role of the United States.
9/10/2008 | A friend of the Melbourne couple killed in a crash in Nepal has described them as a popular pair who "essentially loved life''.
9/10/2008 | A CONTROVERSIAL American author and conspiracy theorist was arrested in Nairobi and deported on Tuesday after trying to plug his bestselling book attacking Barack Obama, whose late father was Kenyan.
9/10/2008 | TO HER father, she is Princess; to her mother, she is "meine kleine puppe" (my little doll) or, simply, Britty.
9/10/2008 | AS SUPPORTERS of a political party renowned for finding defeat in the unlikeliest of circumstances, the Democratic crowd in Seventh Avenue's Tonic Bar was justifiably subdued during the second presidential debate.
9/10/2008 | JOHN McCAIN and Sarah Palin are in a deep, dark, tough corner and they did not punch out of it in Debate II.
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