9/09/2008 | IT HAS been heralded as a monumental creation that will reveal the fundamental nature of the universe, but also as a doomsday machine that could destroy the planet.
9/09/2008 | IMMUNOLOGIST Ian Frazer won the lucrative Balzan Prize in Milan yesterday for his development of a cervical cancer vaccine.
9/09/2008 | AUSTRALIAN journalists in Afghanistan have been targeted by terrorists and were warned yesterday by the Federal Government to consider leaving the country.
9/09/2008 | AN INDONESIAN man has been sentenced to 15 years' jail for killing the Australian Heidi Murphy in a Bali villa, an act the judges said was sadistic and inhuman.
9/09/2008 | AUSTRALIA is under pressure to drop its ban on uranium exports to India days after an international moratorium on the sale of nuclear fuel to New Delhi was lifted.
8/09/2008 | Bail-out of mortgage giants steers presidential campaign onto fertile ground for Democrats.
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8/09/2008 | Share markets brace as US Government bails out Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
8/09/2008 | The mother of the millionaire businessman who murdered his wife and daughter before setting fire to his mansion has spoken of her grief but said nobody knew of her son's financial problems.
8/09/2008 | Rwanda is seeking to leave behind the bitterness brought about by the genocide of 1994, writes Russell Skelton.
8/09/2008 | YOUNGER Australians are less concerned about any security threat posed by Indonesia, according to a new poll, but it remains the country of most concern to all Australians.
8/09/2008 | ASIF ALI ZARDARI will take on one of the world's toughest and most dangerous political posts when he is sworn in as president of Pakistan this week.
7/09/2008 | THE candidates have picked their running mates, packed their bags and nailed down their policies.
7/09/2008 | THE birth of this handsome little boy ended a royal succession crisis when he became the first male heir born into Japan's royal family in more than four decades.
7/09/2008 | Agreat woman who worked with Ronald Reagan was on the phone shortly after Republican Senator John McCain turned the American political world on its head with his selection of Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska as his choice to be the next vice-president of the United States.
7/09/2008 | A UNITED States victory in Iraq is "within sight", Republican vice-presidential contender Sarah Palin predicted yesterday.
Ms Palin attributed the imminent success to the surge of troops s...
7/09/2008 | A UNITED States victory in Iraq is "within sight", Republican vice-presidential contender Sarah Palin predicted yesterday.
Ms Palin attributed the imminent success to the surge of troops s...
7/09/2008 | A CRISIS is unfolding in Haiti with the impact of hurricanes Fay, Gustav and Hanna rendering as many as 600,000 people in need of help.
6/09/2008 | ASIF ALI ZARDARI'S wife once called him the "Mandela of Pakistan" because of the many years he wallowed in prison. Opponents dubbed him "Mr 10 per cent" because of the kickbacks he allegedly demanded when he was a government minister. Now he is poised to take the title "Mr President".
6/09/2008 | THE Republicans' nominee for president, John McCain, has disowned the past eight years of George Bush and his Administration as he sought to define himself as a man of principle, experience and character, ready to lead America during dangerous times.
6/09/2008 | Sarah Palin could well bag more fans from both parties, writes Anne Davies.