18/11/2008 | Executives from the big three American car companies - General Motors, Ford and Chrysler - will make a direct plea to Congress today for a multibillion-dollar lifeline, warning that bankruptcy and lay-offs of hundreds of thousands loom without government help.
18/11/2008 | JUST as Therese Rein, wife of the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, had to give up aspects of her business, the former US president Bill Clinton may have to cease some of his activities for his wife, Hillary, tp become the nation's top diplomat.
18/11/2008 | NEW DELHI: Voters in Kashmir defied bitterly cold weather and separatist calls for a boycott at the first stage of elections in the troubled Himalayan province by turning up at the polls in surprisingly large numbers.
17/11/2008 | IF HILLARY CLINTON is named US secretary of state, she and her husband could be positioned to lead a public-private partnership on the global stage unlike any before it, one that experts say could bri...
17/11/2008 | IN A case of prehistoric paternity testing, the world's oldest known nuclear family has been identified: a mum, dad and two boys who lived 4600 years ago.
17/11/2008 | FOUR Australian judges, including the High Court Justice Michael Kirby, have been put on a United Nations shortlist of candidates to sit on two unprecedented tribunals to help root out nepotism and corruption among UN staff.
17/11/2008 | NAIROBI: The rebel leader Laurent Nkunda agreed to support United Nations efforts to restore peace in eastern Congo even as his troops were battling government forces.
17/11/2008 | A CHRISTIAN missionary is largely responsible for the nightmare facing five Australians who have been detained in Papua for three months and face possible prison sentences after illegally landing their light plane in the politically sensitive Indonesian province.
17/11/2008 | THE future of one of the best known freedom struggles is being reassessed by Tibetan refugees in exile attending an unprecedented meeting at the Indian hill town of Dharamsala.
17/11/2008 | A RETIRED Chinese leader has picked a fight with China's most forthright magazine, shedding rare light on the feuds and insecurities that shape China's political landscape.
17/11/2008 | GENERAL elections in Israel tend to breed new political movements. Names like Shinui, the Centre Party and the Pensioners Party have all enjoyed brief bursts of enthusiasm in recent election cycles but none has managed to survive beyond their first election.
17/11/2008 | She lost the election but is reportedly set to score an $11 million-dollar book contract
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17/11/2008 | PITY Barack Obama. The leaders of the 20 largest economies have agreed to an ambitious program aimed at overhauling the global financial system, but they have dropped the decisions that divide them philosophically into the lap of the US president-elect.
16/11/2008 | THE legitimacy of Indian control in Kashmir will be tested today as voters in the Muslim-dominated province begin a controversial election in the shadow of violent protests against New Delhi rule.
16/11/2008 | ISRAEL'S Defence Minister, Ehud Barak, appears to have headed off a push for a big military operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
16/11/2008 | BEARING signs such as "No more Mr Nice Gay" and "We're not asking for five wives - just one", more than 10,000 New Yorkers have joined a nation-wide backlash against California's voting down of same-sex marriage rights.
16/11/2008 | A heroin addict who can cover her tracks has police on the hop, writes Allan Hall in Berlin.
14/11/2008 | KEVIN RUDD will join forces with the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, and other European leaders to push for aggressive and co-ordinated steps to rescue the flagging world economy - and he suggested Australia would need to spend more than the $10.2 billion announced.
14/11/2008 | Paul Keating rang Ken Henry three days ago. We know this because Henry - the Rudd Government's principal economic adviser as head of the Commonwealth Treasury and the nation's most senior econ...
14/11/2008 | IMAGINE yourself in Bangkok, eager for directions to the Pratunam clothing markets but lost in a language you can neither read nor pronounce.
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