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Troops in Afghanistan

Audio slideshow: Professor Clive Williams talks about Australia's military involvement in Afghanistan.

Inside Burma

Audio slideshow: The Herald's Connie Levett and Andrew Meares reported undercover from Rangoon.

Showdown in capital city

Slideshow: Police confront Burmese protesters in Canberra.

Burmese regime cracks down on monks

This picture dated 27 September 2007 shows an injured Buddhist monk stands in front of a monastry following a raid by the law enforcing agencies. With protests quashed and many monasteries empty, fears are growing for those who have disappeared into Myanmar's grim prisons in recent days as rights groups say more than 1,000 are missing. MYANMAR OUT THAILAND OUT Audio slideshow: Burma's military junta goes in hard against those protesting against it. What is China's role in stemming the violence?

Marching against the government

A Buddhist monk waves a flag as others gather to take part in a procession in downtown Yangon, 25 September 2007, despite stern warnings from Myanmar's junta against the anti-government protests. In another day of public defiance against the generals and their iron grip on the country, some 30,000 monks dressed in saffron and red robes, followed by about 70,000 supporters, surrounded the Sule Pagoda and nearby city hall. MYANMAR OUT PHOTO Audio slideshow: Buddhist monks take to the streets to express their unhappiness with Burma's military junta.

A change of face

Audio slideshow: What plastic surgery really looks like.

Lost in transition

Audio slideshow: Remember the iPod you lost on a train? It just went under the hammer.

Drought hits the wine glut

wine glut Audio slideshow: The days of the $5 classy cleanskin are well and truly over.

Sympathy (or cacophony) for the devil

Audio slideshow: These Tasmanian devils may look cute, but wait until you hear them.

Pollies behaving badly

Audio slideshow: Probable last Question Time before the election turns raucous.

Documenting Auschwitz

This 1944 photo provided by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) shows the first page of a photo album of approximately 116 rare photographs of senior SS officers and Nazi officials at the Auschwitz concentration camp unveiled Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2007, by the museum. At left, the commandant of Auschwitz, Richard Baer, and right, Karl Hcker, the adjutant to the commandant. The inscription reading "Auschwitz 21.6.1944" signals its uniqueness as rare wartime photographs of the Auschwitz concentration ca Slideshow: Remembering the past through the lens of the SS.

Diana's gown up close

Audio slideshow: Princess Diana's fairytale wedding gown comes to town.

Henry Lawson returns

Audio slideshow: Australia's bush poet balladeers in the Gardens once more.

Flame of hope

Audio slideshow: Special Olympics torch run rolls into town.

Emmys picks and pans

Audio slideshow: We unleash the fashion police onto the 2007 Emmy Awards red carpet.

Keeping the peace

Audio slideshow: Commemorating 60 years of Australian peacekeeping.

Phuket crash

Audio slideshow: Grave fears held for Australians missing after a plane crash at Phuket airport, killing at least 88 people.

Jackie Kelly country

penrith Audio slideshow: We test the mood within the western Sydney federal electorate of Lindsay.

Sydney's Garden Palace

Audio slideshow: Sydney once had a grand International Exhibition Building in the Botanic Gardens. Destroyed by fire in 1882, it was almost forgotten -- until now.

Waltzing Matildas

Audio slideshow: Australia's women's football side kick off their World Cup campaign in style against Ghana.

Howard's retirement plan

Audio slideshow: Victory looks even less likely for the Government after the Prime Minister said he'll step down, says columnist Annabel Crabb.

Great wall of APEC

Audio slideshow: Nostalgic for Sydney's APEC security fence?

PM fights to stay

Audio slideshow: Political sketchwriter Annabel Crabb ponders what's next for Howard and his leadership.

Corbett's road to Beijing

Audio slideshow: Meet the boxer whose ringcraft could deliver gold.

Protests and gabfests

Slideshow: A pro-Bush rally turns saucy and the APEC leaders receive a 21-bum salute.

Snipers and choppers

Slideshow: Another day, another roadblock in APEC city.

Bush greets Sydney

bush Audio slideshow: The US President on Iraq, climate change and Howard.

The Eagle lands

bush Audio slideshow: US President George Bush arrives in Sydney with his motorcade.
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Crikey, it's been a year

Slideshow: Remembering Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter.

Fortress Sydney

bins Slideshow: Sydney locked down securely as APEC arrives. Very securely.

Ghost town

ghost town Audio slideshow: Sydney stays home as APEC comes to town.

Afghan contestants pose during a fashion competition initiated by a private television channel in the city of Mazar-I-Shariff, north of Kabul, in this file picture taken September 25, 2007. A model strutting the catwalk is hardly revolutionary in most countries, but Afghan television's answer to "America's Top Model" is breaking boundaries and revealing the beauty under the burqa. To match feature AFGHAN-MODELS/ Files (AFGHANISTAN)

Herald news quiz

Have you been paying attention this week?

dress up george bush!

Bushwhacked!

Interactive: Give President George Bush an Australian makeover after his APEC visit.

APEC 2007

APEC 2007

Interactive: All you need to know to survive the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Sydney.

State of Origin

When two tribes go to war

Interactive: The annual clash of the Blues and the Maroons.

Resilient Afghanistan

Interactive: How has life changed for Afghans since the US invasion of 2001?

nsw budget

NSW Budget '07

Interactive: What's in it for you? Details and analysis here.

Afghan farmer

Afghanistan: The Violent Frontier

Interactive: The Taliban is spoiling for war and drug barons have the country by the throat. Five years after the US-led invasion, Paul McGeough finds Afghanistan on the brink.

Being a Muslim

Interactive: Australian Muslims talk about their faith.

Migrants

Beyond a White Australia

Interactive: In April 1947 the SS Misr and its un-British migrants sparked an unprecendented controversy. See how its arrival changed a nation.

Baghdad's warlord

Interactive: Paul McGeough's face-to-face interview with the 'Shiite Zarqawi' and mass-murderer of Iraq, Abu Deraa.

Stormchasers

Interactive: Sydney Morning Herald photographer Nick Moir heads to the US to shoot the world's wildest storms.

Iranian women

The War of Ideas

Interactive: Five years after September 11 2001, Paul McGeough finds the Middle East in crisis and Americans feeling more at risk than ever.

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