World News
02 May 09 | CANBERRA: Fiji's military ruler has defied international pressure to announce elections, setting the stage for his country's suspension from the Pacific Islands Forum.
02 May 09 | INDONESIA'S President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, is being driven into the arms of the country's Islamic parties, posing questions about the direction of his administration if, as expected, he is re-elected.
02 May 09 | In the US, rifle owners don't trust Obama, writes Anne Davies.
02 May 09 | The campaign for peace must first heal the wounds caused by 26 years of civil war, writes Matt Wade in Colombo.
02 May 09 | KIM JONG-IL'S reclusive North Korean regime has hosted many strange delegations in its time, and its mixture of 1940s Stalinist ambience and oriental personality cult is a drawcard to the curious and adventuresome. But the Australian team that headed into Pyongyang in October 2007 must be among the strangest.
02 May 09 | A ROW has erupted between Moscow and the West after NATO expelled from its Brussels headquarters two senior Russian diplomats it accused of spying. The expulsion came as Russia took formal control of the borders of Georgia's separatist zones and slammed NATO exercises due in the country.
02 May 09 | IT GIVES a new meaning to sweeping something under the carpet.
02 May 09 | CASSANDRA HASANOVIC was convinced she was going to die at the hands of her husband but her pleas for help - in Australia and Britain - fell on deaf ears.
01 May 09 | Almost two weeks before tests confirmed she was the first person to die of swine flu, doctors in Oaxaca couldn't figure out what was wrong with a 39-year-old woman who arrived at their hospital gasping for air, her hands and feet blue from oxygen-starved blood.
01 May 09 | APELDOORN: At least two people died after a car slammed into crowds at a festival attended by members of the Dutch royal family in the western city of Apeldoorn yesterday.
01 May 09 | THE HAGUE: Four people died when a car slammed into a crowd at a festival attended by the Dutch royal family in the western city of Apeldoorn yesterday.
01 May 09 | MEXICO CITY: Mexico has ordered a halt to non-essential business and federal government activities in an attempt to stamp out a swine flu epidemic, as the World Health Organisation warned that "all of humanity" is threatened by a pandemic.
01 May 09 | IN THE devastating slump that has forced two of Detroit's car makers to the brink of bankruptcy, the United Auto Workers union stands to become one of the industry's few winners.
01 May 09 | THE US President, Barack Obama, has described the US Government as a reluctant shareholder in the nation's banks, car makers and insurance companies, promising to exit as soon as market conditions allow, as he faced the media to mark his first 100 days in office.
01 May 09 | LEBANON'S pro-Western parliamentary majority leader, Saad Hariri, has urged voters to keep supporting the international tribunal investigating the murder of his father, the former president Rafiq Hariri, despite the release of four key suspects.
01 May 09 | THE world is at imminent risk of a pandemic from swine flu, the World Health Organisation warned as it raised the threat awareness level to five out of six.
01 May 09 | BEIJING is bristling at reports that the Defence white paper due out tomorrow will call for a build-up of naval and air force power to counter the military threat of rising China.
30 Apr 09 | The World Health Organisation has raised its swine flu alert to phase five out of six, WHO chief Margaret Chan said, signalling that a pandemic was "imminent" following the swine flu outbreak. Phase five, one step short of a full pandemic, is characterised as a "strong signal that a pandemic is imminent and that the time to finalise... the planned mitigation measures is short", according to the WHO's global emergency planning.
30 Apr 09 | WASHINGTON: The first US death from swine flu has been confirmed amid increasing global anxiety over a health menace that authorities around the world are struggling to contain.
30 Apr 09 | THE European Court of Justice has awarded a Greek Cypriot refugee the right to win back land he was forced to flee when war partitioned the island in 1974.