BARACK Obama launched a counter-attack today after a week of pummelling by his White House rival John McCain, dismissing the Republican as "in the pocket" of profit-pumping US oil giants
US President George W. Bush left today on a three-nation trip to Asia to attend the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Beijing and hold talks on trade, human rights and the denuclearisation of North Korea, a White House spokeswoman said
A JUDGE in California will decide later today whether to shut down a fake online Beijing Olympics ticket website that has scammed Australian, US, New Zealand and hundreds of other sports fans around the globe out of hundreds of thousands of dollars
Emergency services at the scene of the glider crash at Toogoolawah in which two men died. Picture: Nathan Richter
