6:55 AM ACDT | The refusal of the US president-elect to comment on the Gaza conflict disappoints Arab leaders, Palestinian Foreign Affairs Minister says.
12:30 AM ACDT | NEW YORK: The most striking things about Gaza are the emptiness of the streets and how vulnerable the civilians are in their homes, a United Nations official said yesterday.
12:30 AM ACDT | THE former prime minister John Howard is the first Australian political leader to be honoured with a Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honour bestowed by the President of the United States.
12:30 AM ACDT | IT IS a dream that has been shared by lovers across the centuries - eloping to exotic lands. But few would have been as bold and spontaneous as six-year-old Mika and his seven-year-old sweetheart, Anna-Lena, who, after mulling over their options in secret, packed their suitcases on New Year's Eve and set off from Germany to tie the knot under the heat of the African sun.
12:30 AM ACDT | HAMAS has been tunnelling in Gaza for months, as soldiers from Israel's Golani Brigade discovered when they entered a house to find that no less than three tunnels led away from it.
6/01/2009 | Israeli forces inch closer to central Gaza City as Hamas fighters try to lure them into a dangerous urban conflict.
6/01/2009 | ISRAEL'S director of military intelligence, Major General Amos Yadlin, warned yesterday of the possibility that the Lebanese paramilitary force, Hezbollah, could open a second front against Israel and that it might fire rockets on Israel within the next few days.
6/01/2009 | MORE than 100 Australian Jews, including two award-winning novelists and a former federal cabinet minister, have signed a statement condemning Israel's siege of Gaza, heightening tensions within the local Jewish community over the violence.
6/01/2009 | ISRAELI forces inched closer to central Gaza City yesterday as Hamas fighters tried to lure them into a dangerous urban conflict where they would be more exposed to ambush raids.
6/01/2009 | IN THE days before his death, late in 2004, Yasser Arafat looked back in time and assessed his people's forlorn history.
6/01/2009 | TO BE in the path of a Qassam rocket can be unnerving to say the least.
6/01/2009 | AN AUSTRALIAN soldier has been killed in Afghanistan by a rocket fired by the Taliban at a southern base.
6/01/2009 | THE president-elect, Barack Obama, has moved to cut short any further ethical controversies surrounding his yet-to-be-sworn-in administration by accepting the withdrawal of his commerce secretary nominee, Bill Richardson.
6/01/2009 | THE French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, was due to arrive in Jerusalem last night with a high-ranking European Union delegation as the EU's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, admitted there had been a "failure of diplomacy" in response to the Gaza crisis so far.
5/01/2009 | The objective at the heart of Operation Cast Lead calls for Israel's air-and-ground assault on Gaza to be given a new name.
5/01/2009 | MORE than 3000 protesters convened outside Sydney Town Hall and marched through the city yesterday, deliberately passing the Egyptian consulate. A similar number marched in Melbourne, both in support ...
5/01/2009 | JAPANESE whalers are pressing for authorities to refuse port entry to Sea Shepherd anti-whaling activists when they return from the Antarctic to refuel.
5/01/2009 | THE Pacific Islands should set up a regional human rights body to help reverse decades of poor governance and improve safeguards for women and children, a leading Pacific rights group has recommended.
5/01/2009 | FACIAL expressions of emotion are innate, not learned, research that compared faces of sighted and blind athletes as they weathered defeat shows.
5/01/2009 | THE noise of gunfire and the dull thuds and sharp cracks of shells being fired and exploding could be heard on the Gaza-Israel border yesterday as Israeli forces fought members of the militant Palestinian group Hamas.
Favourites
Del.icio.us
Facebook
Digg
StumbleUpon
MySpace
Reddit
Newsvine
LinkedIn
Kwoff