12:15 PM AEST | The kidnappers of an Australian photographer and Canadian journalist in Somalia want a ransom of $3 million for the pair's safe return.
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 | IT IS a classic happy snap. A little out of focus and badly framed but nevertheless a record of one of the myriad joyful moments that punctuate family life: a long weekend, Mum and Dad in the background, a teenager with them, and all smiling contentedly at the camera.
6/09/2008 | JUVAL AVIV is one of those characters who have floated to prominence in the hall of mirrors where counter-terrorism, intelligence and entertainment present bewildering multiple images.
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, you beauty. I haven't derived so much pleasure from politics since Pauline Hanson erupted onto the scene. Politics isn't principally about pleasure, of course, but that doesn'...
6/09/2008 | Sarah Palin could well bag more fans from both parties, writes Anne Davies.
6/09/2008 | A SYDNEY teenager on a working holiday in Britain has been arrested and charged over the fatal hit-and-run of a mother of four.