11:13 AM AEDT | Americans were prepared to elect an actor for president, so what's wrong with a surgeon-general who's a TV health reporter?
7:42 AM AEDT | John Howard has been exposed as the man who inadvertently forced the next first family to stay at a hotel.
1:00 AM AEDT | LONDON: Anyone who has spent a chilly half-hour waiting for a double-decker bus may already have doubted the existence of a deity. But for those who need further proof, a British advertising campaign aimed at persuading more people to "come out" as atheists has been launched with the backing of some of the world's most famous non-believers.
1:00 AM AEDT | JAPANESE whalers are facing a woeful Antarctic whaling season, their troubles multiplied by the apparent loss from the hunt of a key harpoon ship.
1:00 AM AEDT | THE US president-elect, Barack Obama, is known as No-Drama Obama, but the first day of the 111th Congress, with which he will work for the next two years, was far from uneventful.
1:00 AM AEDT | SEVENTEEN hours after the attack on one of his schools killed 40 Palestinians seeking shelter from Israel's war on Hamas, the United Nations's director of operations in Gaza, John Ging, was certain of at least one thing.
1:00 AM AEDT | THE bombing, shelling and shooting will stop one day. The electricity and water will be restored. And the windows of the Mousa family's flat, every one of them blown out by Israeli air force strik...
1:00 AM AEDT | It has taken me days to begin writing this, so horrified have I been by Israel's latest actions. My sense of justice, however - as a mother, a Jew, and above all as a human being - impels me to tr...
1:00 AM AEDT | Imagine if an offshore terrorist organisation starts firing rockets at towns in northern Australia, aimed at killing and terrorising as many civilians as possible. Australia offers a truce, but the of...
7/01/2009 | An Australian businessman is dead after being stabbed at least 20 times during a home invasion in the Philippines province of Iloilo, local media reports.
7/01/2009 | The refusal of the US president-elect to comment on the Gaza conflict disappoints Arab leaders, Palestinian Foreign Affairs Minister says.
7/01/2009 | NEW YORK: The most striking things about Gaza are the emptiness of the streets and how vulnerable the civilians are in their homes, a United Nations official said yesterday.
7/01/2009 | THE former prime minister John Howard is the first Australian political leader to be honoured with a Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honour bestowed by the President of the United States.
7/01/2009 | IT IS a dream that has been shared by lovers across the centuries - eloping to exotic lands. But few would have been as bold and spontaneous as six-year-old Mika and his seven-year-old sweetheart, Anna-Lena, who, after mulling over their options in secret, packed their suitcases on New Year's Eve and set off from Germany to tie the knot under the heat of the African sun.
7/01/2009 | HAMAS has been tunnelling in Gaza for months, as soldiers from Israel's Golani Brigade discovered when they entered a house to find that no less than three tunnels led away from it.
6/01/2009 | Israeli forces inch closer to central Gaza City as Hamas fighters try to lure them into a dangerous urban conflict.
6/01/2009 | ISRAEL'S director of military intelligence, Major General Amos Yadlin, warned yesterday of the possibility that the Lebanese paramilitary force, Hezbollah, could open a second front against Israel and that it might fire rockets on Israel within the next few days.
6/01/2009 | MORE than 100 Australian Jews, including two award-winning novelists and a former federal cabinet minister, have signed a statement condemning Israel's siege of Gaza, heightening tensions within the local Jewish community over the violence.
6/01/2009 | ISRAELI forces inched closer to central Gaza City yesterday as Hamas fighters tried to lure them into a dangerous urban conflict where they would be more exposed to ambush raids.
6/01/2009 | IN THE days before his death, late in 2004, Yasser Arafat looked back in time and assessed his people's forlorn history.
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