OIL prices have nosedived by almost $US5 as falling global equities and resurgent concerns about an economic slowdown stoked fears about future energy demand, traders said
A STONE tablet said to date back to the first century BC could redefine ties between the Christian and Jewish religions by predicting a messiah who would rise again after three days
IRAN has banned sports and movie stars from appearing in commercial advertisements on the grounds that celebrities should not promote consumerism, the Government newspaper Iran reported today
IRAN will hit Tel Aviv, US shipping in the Gulf and American interests around the world if it is attacked over its disputed nuclear activities, an aide to Iran`s Supreme Leader was quoted as saying today
G8 nations, papering over deep differences on how to set goals to combat global warming, said today they would work toward a target of at least halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 with other participants in UN talks
THE US formally apologised to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for distributing to reporters an "insulting`` biography of him that said he was "hated by many``
AFGHAN officials hasve accused Pakistan of being behind a suicide blast at the Indian embassy that left 41 people dead, saying the attack had the hallmarks of its intelligence agency
MYSTERY surrounds the deaths of two commercial fishermen whose boat sank without warning in relatively calm conditions off Tasmania`s remote southwest coast, authorities say
THE editor of an art magazine that published a photograph of a naked six-year-old girl on its front cover says it was not a protest against the censorship of artist Bill Henson
A 13-YEAR-OLD girl was forced to run naked in the street after being stripped of her clothes and raped, before collapsing into the arms of a good Samaritan, a court heard yesterday
A SACRED Aboriginal site has been dug up for a rubbish tip by a contractor working for the federal intervention into Northern Territory Aboriginal communities
FROM manicured mini-mogulette to sequin-spangled twirler, Jodi Gordon has signed up to the next series of Dancing with the Stars
