1:00 AM AEDT | ISRAELI fears of a war on two fronts intensified yesterday after Palestinian militants in southern Lebanon backed by the radical Islamic Hezbollah movement launched a missile attack on Israel that wounded two people.
1:00 AM AEDT | NINE Afghan civilians have reportedly been injured - some possibly killed - in a clash between Australian and Western troops and the Taliban in southern Afghanistan.
1:00 AM AEDT | FLANKED by his father, former president George H. Bush, and former president Bill Clinton, with Jimmy Carter a little to one side, the younger Bush seemed to bounce on his toes, like a sportsman awaiting a curved ball. Beside him, Barack Obama seemed almost languid.
1:00 AM AEDT | INDIA'S $83 billion IT and outsourcing industry has been dealt a severe blow - and the country's sharemarket rocked - by revelations that one of its biggest companies had been fudging the books for years.
1:00 AM AEDT | WASHINGTON: The Democratic leadership has cleared the way for Roland Burris to replace Barack Obama in the Senate a week after threatening to block him because he had been appointed by a scandal-hit governor.
1:00 AM AEDT | IT WAS a combined love of statistics and politics, and a bit of serendipity, that propelled Madura Wijewardena, 35, a Sydney lawyer, onto the year-long campaign trail for the US president-elect, Barack Obama.
1:00 AM AEDT | SIXTEEN watches, including diamond-encrusted timepieces from Tiffany and Cartier. Four diamond brooches. Two sets of cuff links. An emerald ring.
1:00 AM AEDT | JOE the plumber, the Ohio man who became the Republican Party's pin-up boy during the US election campaign, has a new gig: he is heading to Israel as a reporter for a conservative website, pjtv.com.
1:00 AM AEDT | AMBULANCES have been able to drive to some of the most heavily shelled areas in Gaza for the first time to collect the injured and dead, as Israel paused its military offensive for three hours to allo...
1:00 AM AEDT | An Indian dossier of proof points the finger at its neighbour, writes Matt Wade in New Delhi.
8/01/2009 | Americans were prepared to elect an actor for president, so what's wrong with a surgeon-general who's a TV health reporter?
8/01/2009 | John Howard has been exposed as the man who inadvertently forced the next first family to stay at a hotel.
8/01/2009 | 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.
8/01/2009 | JAPANESE whalers are facing a woeful Antarctic whaling season, their troubles multiplied by the apparent loss from the hunt of a key harpoon ship.
8/01/2009 | 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.
8/01/2009 | 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.
8/01/2009 | 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...
8/01/2009 | 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...
8/01/2009 | 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.
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