MORE workers are engaging in office romances than ever before, putting the heat on employers to step up their sexual harassment policies, a psychologist says
IRAN says its nuclear stance has not changed and it`s ready to hold talks with world major powers over its disputed nuclear program based on international regulations
AT least 25 inmates have been shot dead by Syrian security forces during a riot in a jail for political prisoners in the mountains outside Damascus, a human rights group says
IRAN`S army chief has warned that the Islamic republic would shut the Strait of Hormuz which controls Gulf oil exports if its interests were threatened, the Fars news agency reports
SOUTH Korean activists have promised to draw a million protesters nationwide in the biggest anti-US beef rallies so far, warning they would use young Christians as "human shields" against riot police
JAPANESE sailor and environmentalist Kenichi Horie has completed a 110 day solo voyage across the Pacific Ocean in a boat propelled by wave power to claim another world first
AN Afghan provincial governor says 16 civilians including women, children and doctors were killed in US-led coalition air strikes but the force insists the dead were militants
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd said the Murray-Darling Basin shows what will happen if society buries its head in the sand rather than act over climate change
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has no credibility on managing the lower lakes region of South Australia`s Murray-Darling Basin after doing nothing more than agree on a plan for a plan, the Opposition said today
THE Rudd Government has missed another opportunity to announce much needed short-term reform of the Murray-Darling Basin, the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) said today
TASMANIAN Premier David Bartlett said today the Garnaut draft report on climate change suggests the state`s natural resources could play a key role in a future emissions trading scheme (ETS)
SHELLEY Craft is enjoying a ratings bonanza but behind her smile has been 12 months of misery after her marriage broke down
