THE Pakistani leg of the Olympic global torch has relay started, guarded by thousands of troops and police to ward off any militant threat or anti-China protest
A UNION boss says he has fears over safety in Victorian mines after a miner was seriously injured underground in the third incident in the state in five months
A WOULD-BE terrorist who conversed with birds also lived in a luxury three-storey beachfront home, drove a BMW, had a carer and a butler, regularly called telephone sex lines and masqueraded as a high-rolling gambler, a Melbourne court heard today
A MAN who stole a police car from under the noses of two detectives yesterday has been captured a day later after trying to ram his way out of a police blockade
US pop queen Madonna, Canadian crooner Celine Dion and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall are all descended from the same French carpenter, according to a records archive launched today
CHINA`S new National Stadium, the centrepiece of the Beijing Olympics and better known as the Bird`s Nest, was opened to international media for the first time today
SURGEONS at a Philippines hospital are being probed after they allegedly filmed an operation in which a man had a spray can removed from his backside, then posted the footage on YouTube
