THIRTY-FIVE people have been killed in an assault on Kandahar described by the Taliban as a pre-emptive response to Western plans to eradicate them .
GREECE is to present the first results of its austerity measures at a meeting of European Union finance ministers in Brussels on Monday and Tuesday.
A NEW Zealand anti-whaling activist has been arrested in Japan after a harpoon ship he boarded in Antarctic waters last month docked in Tokyo, greeted by...
AN Australian sailor missing off the coast of earthquake-ravaged Chile was on board a yacht whose captain has previously sailed without a radio.
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A VAGUE threat apparently posted by an Australian on two internet sites led to the lockdown of all schools in the busy midwestern US city of Minneapolis.
IT'S a terrifying image transfixing Washington: President Obama's bruising enforcer Rahm Emanuel, naked, in a communal shower, berating a congressman.
HUNDREDS of people are feared dead after torrential rains across east Africa sparked flash floods which swept away homes and bridges.
RIOTERS armed with machetes have slaughtered more than 200 people as religious violence flared anew between Christians and Muslims in central Nigeria.
A RED kangaroo that is goaded into fighting a human clown is the star attraction at a festival in the US designed to celebrate Australia.
A MAN calmly pulled a gun from his pocket and opened fire outside the Pentagon's metro entrance, injuring two police officers before he was fatally wounded.
IPSWICH is being urged to get behind a new campaign to turn the Bremer River from a polluted embarrassment into a scenic asset for the city.
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