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.
5/09/2008 | You would think the prospect of a woman in the White House as US vice-president - and a working mother to boot - would be welcomed by feminists. Not one bit.
The excoriation of the Alaskan Governo...
5/09/2008 | THE British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, is staring down the barrel of a leadership challenge and it now seems to be more a matter of when - rather than if - his colleagues finally pull the trigger.
5/09/2008 | A SPECIAL Forces soldier has been evacuated from Afghanistan to Germany for medical treatment after a Taliban ambush, as the Federal Government cancelled a contract to buy eight unmanned aerial vehicles to improve protection against roadside bombs.
5/09/2008 | A snapshot of the scene just after Sarah Palin had finished her big address to the Republican National Convention was worth more votes than anything she had just said.
After she gave her spirited ...
4/09/2008 | Two days ago, Levi Johnston was just another high school jock.
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4/09/2008 | McCain campaign says claims are "scurrilous".
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4/09/2008 | Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has launched a counterattack against her critics , telling an overflowing Republican convention hall - electric with the anticipated nomination of John McCain - that she h...
4/09/2008 | The McCain campaign has vigorously denied a report in the National Enquirer magazine that the Republican's vice-presidential pick, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, has had an extramarital affair wit...
4/09/2008 | Sarah Palin dismisses rumours that she might be chosen as a Republican presidential running mate as a notion "from outer space".
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4/09/2008 | EAST TIMOR'S top prosecutor, Longuinhos Monteiro, is flying to Canberra to be briefed on the investigation into the February 11 dawn attacks in Dili.
4/09/2008 | HE PROWLED, he planned, he did everything under the sun to ensure there were no survivors. Then, in front of his own security cameras, the millionaire businessman Christopher Foster gesticulated in defiance and disappeared off-camera, apparently to kill his wife and daughter, then himself.
4/09/2008 | KIEV: The party of the Ukrainian President, Viktor Yushchenko, will quit the pro-Western governing coalition, plunging Ukraine into a new political crisis as relations with Russia worsened.