HUNDREDS of taxi drivers blocked central Melbourne streets this morning demanding to speak directly to a government minister about the stabbing of a colleague
POLICE have charged a British teenager with terrorism offences and possession of an explosive substance after saying officers had found bomb-making equipment at his home
THE Bosnian war crimes court jailed two ethnic Serbs for 17 years each and a Bosnian Croat for 10 years for war crimes against Bosnian Muslim civilians during the country`s 1992-95 war
GEORGIA accused Russia of fanning conflict today after Moscow despatched extra peacekeeping troops to Georgia`s breakaway Abkhazia region to counter what it called a military build-up by Tbilisi
THE European Union has signed a pact on closer ties with Serbia which it hopes will boost the chances of pro-Europe forces over nationalists in elections there next month
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today there is a "serious humanitarian crisis" in Zimbabwe and urged the government to immediately release results of the presidential elections
THE daughter of an Austrian man and the children he fathered with her while keeping them in secret basement captivity have been united with his legitimate above ground family
POLICE investigating alleged child abuse on the Channel island of Jersey have charged a 68-year-old man with sexually assaulting a girl more than 30 years ago
HEALTH concerns over Italian mozzarella cheese resurfaced today as more than 100 buffalo farms around Naples were quarantined amid fears of potential dioxin contamination
BARACK Obama said he is outraged at "destructive" comments made by his former pastor, categorically rejecting his friend of 20 years in a bid to end a drama clouding his White House campaign
PRESIDENT George W. Bush has acknowledged that the United States faces a "long struggle" in Afghanistan, but insists it is making "good progress" despite a brazen Taliban attack on a parade attended by Afghan President Hamid Karzai
Long love ... The couple in Sydney in 2000. Pic: Ian Dickerson