20/07/2008 | AT LEAST 14 people were killed when a passenger bus skidded off a mountain highway into a river in southern central Nepal.
20/07/2008 | AMERICAN anti-terrorism experts are hunting a bomb hoaxer, after passengers were evacuated from a packed Sydney-bound Qantas jumbo in Los Angeles yesterday.
20/07/2008 | EAST Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta was at the centre of a security scare while in Sydney on Friday.
20/07/2008 | AUSTRALIAN mountaineer Lincoln Hall has offered words of encouragement to two climbers stuck on one of the world's deadliest mountains.
20/07/2008 | SEPTEMBER 11 victims' families will be able to mourn their loved ones at the World Trade Centre site again on the seventh anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
20/07/2008 | FORENSIC experts have exhumed 66 Srebrenica massacre victims from a mass grave in eastern Bosnia.
19/07/2008 | Detained in prison hospital
19/07/2008 | HILARIO MADEIRA was the sort of priest who makes you understand how the balance of the global Catholic congregation is shifting to the developing world, away from a jaded Europe.
19/07/2008 | In the shadows outside a violent sect, Ian Munro finds a spirit that will not surrender.
19/07/2008 | Cleaning up the atmosphere is a waste of time without China, but it's not all gloom and doom, writes John Garnaut.
19/07/2008 | Oscar Wilde once lamented the difficulties of "the love that dare not speak its name". Little did he know that a century later it would be more of a concern trying to find a love that would, even for the barest of moments, keep its mouth shut.
19/07/2008 | Syria's first lady is the more glamorous, modern face of the nation, writes Jason Koutsoukis.
18/07/2008 | Wife of British man who faked his own death in a canoe has told how she contemplated suicide and wished her husband dead during the charade.
18/07/2008 | When the clothes moved in her washing machine, a US woman quickly shut the lid and called for help.
18/07/2008 | When the clothes moved in her washing machine, a US woman quickly shut the lid and called for help.
18/07/2008 | Angry Pakistani investors riot at Islamabad Stock Exchange over continued decline in share prices.
18/07/2008 | THE Indonesian Supreme Court has rejected the Bali bombers' request for a final appeal against their death sentences, but they will be given a last opportunity to escape firing squads through a presidential pardon.
18/07/2008 | THE United States wants to send additional forces to Afghanistan "sooner rather than later", the US Defence Secretary, Robert Gates, announced in the wake of a Taliban raid on a base that left nine US soldiers dead.
18/07/2008 | CRITICISM of the performance of embattled Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, intensified yesterday as Israel buried two returned soldiers kidnapped by Hezbollah in 2006.
17/07/2008 | Judge sentences two women to life in prison for killing homeless men in a cold-blooded years-long scheme for $2.86 million in life insurance.