THE Australian stock market was over 1 per cent lower at noon, led by the big banks, after US stocks slipped on lingering concerns about the health of the financial system
SUDANESE President Omar al-Beshir danced, punched the air in delight with his walking stick and shouted `God is Great` in his first public appearance today as a war crimes suspect
No accident? ... a French firefighter, who claims to have witnessed a gunshot wound to the head of a driver involved in Princess Diana`s fatal Paris tunnel car crash, is to give evidence at an inquiry
WHEN the celebs have a fashion emergency, what better than the band-aid dress. 
A WOMAN blew a blood alcohol reading of .462, which is believed to be a record, after crashing her car
A MAN who crashed his car in a driveway, killing a 12-month-old girl, blew 0.166 afterward, court told
A BROKEN cable is being blamed for a major outage which shut down mobile and landline phones and web connections for hours
VANDALS have sprayed "Ratzinger rules" on a war memorial in an apparent reference to the Pope
TWO Sydney activists have won a Federal Court challenge to special World Youth Day "annoyance" laws
A MUD festival in South Korea, a mega banner in China and keeping cool in Belgrade in our world photo special
