27/07/2008 | A BABY'S cries led to his rescue after a tornado demolished this lakeside home in New Hampshire on the United States east coast.
27/07/2008 | Exclusive: ABC foreign correspondent Peter Lloyd has vowed to stay in Singapore to face drug charges that could lead to him being jailed for 20 years.
27/07/2008 | A CHINESE terrorist organisation has warned it will create havoc at next month's Olympics and has claimed responsibility for a deadly Shanghai bus bombing in May.
27/07/2008 | WHITE HOUSE hopeful Barack Obama denied yesterday his adulation-soaked foreign tour was a premature victory lap, but admitted it could cause him to take a short-term dip in the polls back home.
27/07/2008 | BARACK OBAMA, US presidential contender, defended his decision to travel to Europe and the Middle East, saying yesterday problems encountered by Americans at home were often best dealt with by working with allies overseas.
26/07/2008 | Can political leaders be held accountable for the horror perpetrated by followers? Simon Mann reports on the latest test.
26/07/2008 | CHINA has a stupendous $US1800 billion ($1880 billion) in foreign reserves, a big chunk of it parked in US Treasury bonds that have lost their relative value dramatically because of the steady rise of the Chinese yuan against the US dollar.
26/07/2008 | HELEN, a university graduate who speaks English and another European language fluently, lives in poverty in a rundown apartment block in a Chinese city we cannot identify to protect her.
26/07/2008 | "MAX MOSLEY opens new frontier in the battle for privacy; it's the end of kiss-and-tell," sobbed Britain's newspapers yesterday. "Read what really happened at the orgies," enticed their sister websites.
26/07/2008 | From poverty and rejection, Kumari Mayawati may yet lead the world's biggest democracy, writes Matt Wade from New Delhi.
26/07/2008 | The Alhurra dispute goes to the heart of how America treats the Middle East, writes David Hardaker.
25/07/2008 | Bad weather is thwarting efforts to rescue a group of mine workers trapped by hungry bears in Russia's wild far eastern region of Kamchatka.
25/07/2008 | Formula One boss wins record damages after a court rules that a newspaper invaded his privacy over his now infamous sadomasochistic orgy.
25/07/2008 | Thank you to the citizens of Berlin and to the people of Germany. Let me thank Chancellor Merkel and Foreign Minister Steinmeier for welcoming me earlier today. Thank you Mayor Wowereit, the Berlin Se...
25/07/2008 | JULIAN FINE emailed his mother the night before he died. He was snowboarding at the Chilean ski resort of Portillo, and having a ball. "Life really doesn't get much better than this," he wrote. "Lots of love, miss you all."
25/07/2008 | A PILOT who failed to follow landing procedures and ignored his co-pilot's plea to abort, with their Boeing 737 "running wild", wants to fly again despite facing criminal negligence charges over the deaths of 21 people.
24/07/2008 | Back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin and his wife Anne will spend the next six years behind bars for staging elaborate insurance scam.
24/07/2008 | A GARUDA jet continued its ill-fated landing despite "running wild" and becoming uncontrollable early in its approach to Yogyakarta Airport's in March last year, its captain, Marwoto Komar, confessed under police interrogation.
24/07/2008 | PHILADELPHIA: A former US newsreader charged with hacking into the personal email of his glamorous younger co-anchor was a man obsessed, if an FBI investigation is any measure.
24/07/2008 | BEIJING will provide protest pens at three suburban parks where foreigners and Chinese citizens who are brave enough to apply for permission will be allowed to hold public demonstrations during the Olympics.