THE latest devastating storm to lash the Americas swelled into a massive hurricane today threatening to inflict more misery on Haiti, Cuba and the US Gulf Coast, as Tropical Storm Hanna battered the US east coast
AN elderly man has died while waiting for a ward bed at Queensland`s overcrowded Townsville Hospital after being left in a corridor for more than eight hours
THE United States will take North Korea off its terrorism list "immediately" if it can agree on a way to verify its nuclear facilities, America`s top nuclear envoy Christopher Hill said today
AT least 20 people were killed and 23 injured yesterday when dozens of homes in a northern Cairo shantytown were crushed by a massive rockslide, Egyptian officials said
ASIF Ali Zardari has secured a large win in Pakistan`s presidential elections yesterday, capping a remarkable rise from jail, exile and his wife Benazir Bhutto`s assassination just nine months ago
TROPICAL Storm Fay has killed another 40 people in Haiti, the poorest nation in the Americas with 70 per cent of its people living in poverty and mountainous terrain prone to mudslides
THE latest devastating storm to lash the Americas swelled into a massive hurricane today threatening to inflict more misery on Haiti, Cuba and the US Gulf Coast, as Tropical Storm Hanna battered the US east coast
PETROL heads will have to survive on a slab of beer a day at the next Bathurst 1000 car race as police announced "generous" restrictions
FEDERAL Nationals Leader Warren Truss said the party would consider breaking free from the Coalition after the weekend`s election results
