FEDERAL education minister Julia Gillard says allowing a photographer to scout out a primary school playground for nude models would send a shudder down people`s spines
MORE than 1700 people sent to jail in Western Australia after defaulting on fines will have to be compensated for unlawful detention, it was revealed today
TELEVISION bosses in Britain have been forced to change an episode of a staple daytime soap opera after dozens of complaints over a jibe directed at Scottish football side Rangers
NORTH Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has made a public appearance after reportedly suffering a stroke, the communist state`s official news agency reported today
GEORGIAN secret services were behind a car bomb blast that left seven Russian soldiers dead in the breakaway region of South Ossetia, Russian investigators said today
POLICE disabled a man with a Taser gun after a Sydney ferry cruise ended in a brawl, forcing them to use the controversial stun guns for the first time since their introduction across NSW
TWO US Black Hawk helicopters crashed in northern Baghdad`s Sunni district of Adhamiyah today
Brawn and brains ... Italian Gianluca Sirc competes in the chess boxing championships in Berlin. A match consists of up to 11 alternating rounds of boxing and chess / AFP