Indonesian treaty to usher new security era
AUSTRALIA and Indonesia are poised to sign a landmark security
treaty that will pave the way for a new era of close relations
between the two nations.
Race on to bring back deportee
TIME is running out for the Federal Government to track down an Australian man wrongly deported to Turkey.
Special forces in regular clashes in Afghanistan
AUSTRALIA'S special forces contingent in Afghanistan is having
regular - and deadly - firefights with Taliban and al-Qaeda
remnants, and has killed dozens of enemy fighters.
Hwang's disgrace shatters a boy's dream
Kim Hyeoni effectively became a poster boy in the quest to use cloned stem cells for experimental treatments of spinal-cord injuries. Now his father says "it was all a big lie".
Spread of bird flu wider than imagined
THOUSANDS of mild human cases of avian influenza have occurred
throughout the two-year outbreak in Vietnam, suggesting that the
infection is far more pervasive than previously thought, new
research has found.
Iran ignores critics as nuclear seals removed
TEHRAN: United Nations nuclear agency officials have removed seals on Iran's nuclear facilities and research work has resumed.
Brideshead was setting for royal war escape
WHEN the British Army faced annihilation at Dunkirk in World War II, secret plans were drawn up for the hurried evacuation of Princess Elizabeth and her younger sister Margaret to the Brideshead Revisited world of a Worcestershire stately home.
The new cell of paparazzi
New technology means everyone's a photographer, losing touch with
reality in the process, writes Jim White.
Alito faces a rough ride to highest court
ON THE first day of what is likely to be a tense and fiery Senate hearing, the US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito tried to discount his written views on abortion and on the powers of the president, the key issues on which judiciary committee Democrats are likely to grill him this week.
Rowdy neighbour gatecrashes the Milky Way
WASHINGTON: A previously unrecognised galaxy appears to be merging
with the Milky Way, bringing hundreds of thousands of stars into
our home galaxy that no one has noticed until now.
Bid to keep Palestinian poll on track
SENIOR US officials are travelling to the Middle East today to resume peacemaking efforts put on hold by the stroke last week of the Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon.
Journalist's kidnappers maintain silence
THE call came from reporter Jill Carroll's mobile phone, from a
young, wary-sounding Iraqi man who said he had just picked up the
phone from a sprawled body on a Baghdad street. "The person this
phone belongs to was just killed," the caller said.
Crisis talks aim to avert new Fijian coup
THE Vice-President of Fiji, Joni Madraiwiwi, will hold crisis talks with the commander of the country's military forces, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, to stave off a possible military takeover of the Government.
Killers boasted of rape: police
THE killers of the British backpacker Katherine Horton allegedly
boasted about their actions within minutes of her being beaten and
raped.
Secretive North Korean leader may have slipped into China
SEOUL: The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, may have travelled to China by train, news reports in South Korea say.
Academic couple spied for Cuba, US alleges
US AUTHORITIES have accused a Florida university professor and his wife of working as Cuban spies for more than 20 years - sending Fidel Castro's intelligence agency encrypted reports about American officials, FBI agents and anti-Castro groups, and attempting to recruit Cuban-Americans as agents.
