Woolly Days

The UN has pledged to reform East Timor’s police and military after the gun battles that tore at the heart of the new country last year. Ge...

Author Helen Garner has applied for the police summary in a Geelong case involving a prosecution witness in the trial of triple murderer Ro...

CIA Director Michael Hayden has admitted his agency’s failures in destroying videotapes showing the use of the waterboarding torture techni...

The carefully weighted decision of a Cairns judge not to impose custodial sentences on nine men found guilty of rape of a ten-year old girl ...

The stakes are rising in Kosovo. Yesterday ethnic Albanians rallied in their thousands in the streets of the capital Pristina in support of...

The two day summit in Lisbon between EU and African leaders has ended in dispute over trade and human rights issues despite the two sides s...

At just 38 years of age, Natasha Stott Despoja has retired from politics. She did not contest her South Australian Senate seat in the electi...

US Congress has called for an investigation into the CIA's destruction of interrogation videotapes claiming there may be an illegal cov...

Chad’s army has launched a major offensive against two of the rebel groups massed in the east of the country close to the border with Darfu...

Just two days after Australia ratified the Kyoto Protocol, Climate Change Minister Penny Wong has requested her new department calculate the...

The UN has identified 92 countries as being in severe danger of global warming related acute water shortages that could eventually lead to ...

The plague known as Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is caused by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). According to WHO and UNAID so...

London’s Mayor Ken Livingstone has paid tribute last week to Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi on his six-day trip to India. In a silent ceremony, ...