22/11/2008 | KEVIN RUDD has flagged more cuts in interest rates and further government spending to stimulate the economy, using an address to business leaders at the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit in Peru to step up his push for co-ordinated international action to save the world from a deep recession.
22/11/2008 | Edward Wong visits a medical centre that is at the forefront of assisting survivors of one of the world's worst natural disasters.
22/11/2008 | THE Indian textile industry, the country's second-largest foreign exchange earner, will shed half a million jobs by April due to the global financial crisis, an Indian Government official has warned.
21/11/2008 | Michelle Rice talks to female survivors in Congo's war-torn North Kivu region. This is not a story for the faint-hearted.
21/11/2008 | Violence and other abuse of Afghan women is enough to make you wonder what we're there fighting for, reports Paul McGeough from Kabul.
21/11/2008 | The theft of an oil-filled supertanker has piracy in the headlines, but its roots will not be beaten by gunboat diplomacy alone, writes Connie Levett.
21/11/2008 | East Timor has gone on a spending spree to try to buy civil peace, but it's stirring its own unrest. Lindsay Murdoch reports from Dili.
21/11/2008 | AN ITSY-BITSY spider went missing this week.
21/11/2008 | THE leading US intelligence organisation has warned that the world is entering an unstable and unpredictable period in which the advance of Western-style democracy cannot be taken for granted, and the US will no longer be able to "call the shots" alone.
21/11/2008 | THE sadness of the widow Zarghona's Afghan story is its utter ordinariness. At the age of 30, she spends her days in a tiny, smoke-blackened shed, sitting cross-legged by a deep hole in which she bakes bread.
21/11/2008 | BRITAIN will begin withdrawing its 4000 combat forces from Iraq early next year if January's provincial elections proceed without problems.
21/11/2008 | IT IS not historically true that Australia and New Zealand run on different political cycles, but for long periods we have had governments of differing stripes facing each other across the Tasman.
21/11/2008 | As the Dalai Lama prepares to step back, exiled Tibetans urge greater action, write Matt Wade in New Delhi and John Garnaut in Beijing.
21/11/2008 | INDIA has to do a big job. More than half a billion citizens don't have a toilet and the country needs to build 28 new loos every minute over the next four years to meet the Indian Government's ambitious sanitation target.
20/11/2008 | SOMALI pirates who hijacked the Saudi oil supertanker Sirius Star are demanding $US25 million ($39 million) in ransom, while plans have emerged for additional warships from 10 European countries and Russia to converge on the region to tackle the pirate problem.
20/11/2008 | THERE should be no more Bahrainis throwing trussed Australian sheep into the boots of their Mercedes before next month's Eid al-Adha religious festival.
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19/11/2008 | AN INDIAN warship patrolling the Gulf of Aden has engaged in a gun battle with a suspected pirate ship and destroyed it, the Indian navy said yesterday.
19/11/2008 | DHOWS rest on a sandy beach in front of a few ramshackle homes.
19/11/2008 | AN AUSTRALIAN mining company has paid millions of dollars in controversial fees to Somali rebels responsible for a surge in international piracy, including the hijacking this week of an oil supertanker.
19/11/2008 | LOS ANGELES: Barack Obama has sent an explicit message to international negotiators of a new global warming treaty that, under his administration, the US would move to greatly reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century, and "help lead the world toward a new era of global co-operation on climate change".
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