Woolly Days

The world is now trying to make sense of the new political reality in Palestine which has Fatah running the West Bank and Hamas now in firm ...

Last month marked the 40th anniversary of the historic 1967 referendum that allowed Australian aboriginals to be counted on the electoral ro...

The Colombian rebel group FARC is holding out for more concessions before releasing dozens of hostages despite the government’s release of ...

The EU said yesterday it has made substantial progress in talks with Libya over the release of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doct...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has launched a “fairness” review this week of 60 mining contracts signed during the last Congolese w...

After running the gauntlet of protests in Germany and Poland, US President George W Bush is enjoying a better reception on his two day to th...

Toll Holdings’ port and rail spin off company Asciano Group (AIO) made its debut on the Australian stock market last week. AIO contains Pac...

Melbourne drug baron Tony Mokbel has offered to cut a deal with Australian police in order to cut short his extradition proceedings from Gr...

A court in Rome has acquitted five people accused of murdering Italian financier Roberto Calvi due to insufficient evidence. Calvi was know...

Kirk Kerkorian, the father of the Las Vegas mega-resort, turned 90 yesterday. The Armenian-American billionaire Kerkorian is president of ...

The trial of Charles Taylor opened yesterday in The Hague with the dramatic boycott of proceedings by the 59 year old former Liberian dicta...