War dead invoked in Downer's Japan plea
AS JAPAN yesterday ordered its navy to withdraw from its support
role for the conflict in Afghanistan, the Foreign Affairs Minister,
Alexander Downer, intervened in the highly sensitive internal
political debate by raising the recent deaths of two Australian
soldiers.
Listen up: you can run but you can't collide
FORGET the war on drugs. Sports officials are waging a new battle - against digital music players.
The very model of a revolutionary
CARACAS: She, in the words of one Caracas newspaper, was wearing a
"revolutionary and exquisite white dress from the prestigious Fendi
fashion house". He was wearing a baggy red shirt.
Anti-gay church fined over funeral picket
A GRIEVING father has won a nearly $US11 million ($11.8 million) verdict against a fundamentalist church that pickets military funerals in the belief that the war in Iraq is a punishment for the US's tolerance of homosexuality.
Celebrity estate agent murdered
NEW YORK: A Manhattan real estate agent who moved in elite
Hollywood, Hamptons and music industry circles and helped establish
the celebrity broker persona has been killed in her Central Park
apartment.
Air safety: NASA fesses up
AFTER an intense public outcry, NASA has decided to release the results of its long-awaited air-safety survey.
Verdict on presidency due as Bhutto leaves for Dubai
PAKISTAN'S opposition leader Benazir Bhutto boarded a plane for Dubai to visit her family yesterday, a day after she put off the trip citing fears the President, Pervez Musharraf, could impose emergency powers or martial law.
French families say they only wanted to help
BERTRANDE ALLEMAND, a clown who entertains sick children in hospitals in rural France, describes herself as someone who wants to ease the suffering in the world. So when a friend told her about a French aid association planning to evacuate hundreds of Darfur orphans and place them with families in France, she went online and signed up.
McCartney hit Linda, claims tape
LONDON: Heather Mills, the estranged wife of the former Beatle Paul
McCartney, has produced a videotape in which he allegedly admits
hitting his first wife, Linda.
Acquittals infuriate bomb survivors
MADRID: When the Madrid bombing acquittals were read, gasps filled the courthouse, packed with survivors and relatives. Several relatives emerged weeping. They said they were furious and disappointed.
Iraq asks Iran for help with Kurds
IRAQI officials have asked Iran to help in negotiating a diplomatic solution to Turkey's problem with Kurdish guerillas who have been raiding Turkish troops across the border from northern Iraq.
China still banking on Marx's teachings
BEIJING: China has joined the World Trade Organisation and is rapidly opening its banking sector to foreigners, but when it comes to politics the teachings of Karl Marx are still top dog.
Burmese three seek asylum in Australia
VANIMO, Papua New Guinea: Three Burmese men waiting in a small town in Papua New Guinea after fleeing their country's military regime hope they will be granted asylum in Australia.
