BRITISH Airways and Spanish national carrier Iberia are holding talks on a multi-billion-dollar merger as the aviation sector battles soaring fuel prices
WALL Street opened higher today as news that Merrill Lynch was dumping distressed mortgage assets and raising fresh capital helped bring buyers off the sidelines
MOST American investors believe the troubled US economy has fallen into a recession, according to a survey released today by asset management giant Schroders
PAKISTANI Taliban militants have kidnapped 30 security forces from a police station in the northwestern Swat Valley today, a day after killing three intelligence men
THE International Olympic Committee (IOC) will investigate apparent censorship of the internet service provided for media covering the Beijing Olympics, press chief Kevan Gosper said
A WRIT is expected to be filed in the High Court tomorrow alleging the involvement of the secretive Exclusive Brethren in a variety of crimes, including fraud and kidnapping
A BRITISH Sikh teenager won a High Court discrimination case today against a school which banned her from classes after she refused to remove a religious bangle
MORE than 2500 firefighters are struggling in hot summer weather and across rugged terrain to prevent a wildfire that has charred more than 10,522ha from advancing toward world-famous Yosemite National Park
A FORMER Pentagon adviser who was an early advocate of invading Iraq has been looking into entering the potentially lucrative oil business there, The Wall Street Journal reported today
JONAS Salley`s newly-minted Australian citizenship leaves Adelaide United to choose from three of four Brazilians for the Reds` historic visit to the Asian Champions League quarter-finals
NRL chief executives have given the Bulldogs their full support as they seek to impose an injunction stopping Sonny Bill Williams from breaking his five-year contract with the club
CRONULLA have received a double boost for Saturday`s NRL derby against St George Illawarra with Greg Bird named to make his return and Dragons skipper Mark Gasnier ruled out
FORMER Australian Idol Paulini has gone from singing for the Pope one weekend to shaking her booty at a nightclub the next
