NSW Police has hosed down suggestions it is under pressure to be a surrogate infrastructure provider for private telcos after it helped fund a tower that will push the Next G service to a region Telstra had once deemed commercially unviable
PRO-TALIBAN militants beheaded a policeman in Pakistan`s troubled tribal belt bordering Afghanistan today, after accusing him of spying for security forces
THE US military today said it had killed 38 fighters in a day of battles in northeastern Baghdad as militants took advantage of dust storms to launch apparently coordinated assaults
SYRIA said today that US accusations it had been building a nuclear reactor until its destruction in an Israeli air raid last September were as bogus as American claims that Saddam Hussein`s regime had weapons of mass destruction in 2003
SUNNI Arab supporters of Saddam Hussein have marked the anniversary of the executed Iraqi dictator`s birth with poems and songs of praise by his grave in his native village of Awja
EAST Timor`s fugitive rebel leader is under heavy guard at a house in the country`s mountainous interior and will be trucked to the capital tomorrow to formally surrender
TWO passenger trains collided in eastern China early today, killing at least 77 people and injuring hundreds as carriages derailed and toppled into a ditch
AFTER a troubled worldwide trip the Beijing Olympic torch today began its journey through the capital of communist North Korea, where thousands were mobilised to show support for close ally China
NEW eBay global chief John Donahoe will walk into a storm of controversy when he lands in Sydney on Thursday
THE Commonwealth Bank will spend $580 million over the next four years replacing core banking systems that date back to the 1960s
