TELSTRA has warned its shareholders not to sell stock at a discounted price being offered by Share Express Ltd, without consulting their brokers or financial advisers
HSBC AUSTRALIA boss Stuart Davis expects the big banks to continue raising their home loan rates independently of the Reserve Bank of Australia to cover the cost of their own borrowings
SOUTH Korean police have arrested three teenage boys on suspicion of molesting primary school students in a series of assaults that could involve more than 50 victims
AN Indonesian man serving prison time for fraud was arrested today for allegedly making telephone bomb threats against the US embassy from his jail cell
TWO Tibetan envoys will arrive in China tomorrow to start talks with the country`s leadership after bloody riots in Lhasa, a spokesman for the Tibetan government in exile said
PORTS along the US West Coast, including the country`s busiest port complex in Los Angeles, shut down today as some 10,000 workers went on a one-day strike to protest the war in Iraq
A WOMAN awaiting sentencing for running a prostitution ring catering to Washington`s elite has been found dead in a storage shed at her mother`s home in Florida
US President George W. Bush said today he has ordered a new round of sanctions on Burmese state companies to pressure the military leadership there over human rights abuses and to push for political change
THE US has urged Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to "call off his dogs" who are allegedly attacking opposition supporters and to release the presidential election results
US President George W. Bush urged lawmakers today to approve $US770 million ($817 million) in new aid to cope with soaring food prices that have left many hungry and fuelled angry protests around the world
FIVE years after President George W. Bush stood on a warship deck in front of a banner reading "Mission Accomplished", the Iraq war has again thrust to the forefront of the US presidential campaign
