10:00 AM AEST | Presidential nominees unveil duelling versions of how to kickstart the American economy, as data points to slowing growth and rising joblessness.
9/07/2008 | THE world's eight major industrialised nations have agreed to adopt a "vision" to halve their greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, providing some hope that a global agreement on greenhouse ga...
9/07/2008 | A LEADING Chinese human rights activist who was the subject of Kevin Rudd's honours thesis has criticised the Prime Minister for his decision to attend the opening of the Beijing Olympics, likening the event to the Berlin Games under Hitler in 1936.
9/07/2008 | For many US veterans, coming home is the hardest fight, reports Martin Evans from Melville, New York.
9/07/2008 | There was hand wringing, breast beating and one bishop even burst into tears as the Church of England jettisoned an eleventh-hour olive branch to male traditionalists and voted to proceed with the ordination of women bishops.
9/07/2008 | MAX MOSLEY, world motorsport boss, has been forced into the British High Court to defend his predilection for sado-masochistic sex parties - and to insist that his private peccadilloes should be out of bounds to the public.
9/07/2008 | THE Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, is expected to ask Australia to support the approval of India's nuclear deal with the United States when he meets Kevin Rudd on the sidelines of the Group of Eight meeting.
8/07/2008 | Rare white Bengal tiger cubs unveiled
8/07/2008 | Mosley defends raunchy sex parties
8/07/2008 | A YEAR ago Pakistani commandos used heavy firepower to remove a group of armed Islamic extremists who had occupied the Red Mosque in Pakistan's capital Islamabad.
8/07/2008 | THE Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is under renewed pressure as police investigating sodomy allegations say they have statements from 18 witnesses, including doctors who examined his former aide and accuser.
8/07/2008 | THE creation of a trio of "super bishops", an elite tier created for traditionalists who oppose women, has been proposed as an 11th-hour compromise to avoid a schism in the Church of England.
7/07/2008 | The Church of England has refused to deny that its most senior bishops held secret discussions with their Vatican counterparts this weekend in an historic union to topple the controversial Anglican push to admit gay unions and the ordination of women bishops.
5/07/2008 | Roberto Saviano put his life on the line writing about crime, reports Paola Totaro in Naples.
5/07/2008 | A fledgling Lebanese fast-food entrepreneur believes his latest project, Buns & Guns Military Restaurant, has global potential.
5/07/2008 | NOT SO long ago Ryann Connell, an Australian journalist, happily declared he was doing his "dream job" in Japan.
5/07/2008 | A conflict between old and new orders is threatening turmoil in a country regarded as a pro-Western pillar of stability for the Middle East.
5/07/2008 | In the wake of a historic win against the Mafia, Paola Totaro visited the headquarters of the feared Camorra.
5/07/2008 | mountains as high as first-floor windows, the stench becomes unbearable - in this, the third-biggest city in Italy, one of Europe's economic superpowers.
5/07/2008 | The Olympics will be as notable for what you won't see as what you will as China gets ready.