AN Australian pilot whose intrusion into Singapore airspace caused fighter jets to scramble and brought commercial air traffic to a halt was today fined 5000 Singapore dollars ($3970)
THE Olympic torch headed for Kazakhstan today on the first leg of an epic world tour designed to drum up enthusiasm for the Beijing Games, but also certain to draw anti-China protests
INDIA`s football captain has refused to carry the Olympic torch when it arrives in New Delhi this month to protest China`s crackdown on unrest in Tibet
CHINA said countries that boycott the Olympic opening ceremony in August would undermine their own interests, while skirting the issue of why it stayed away from the 1980 Moscow Games]]>
Retrieved ... Kristy Brittain holds the nose stud returned to her by a thoughtful flathead / Picture: The Mercury
