01 May 09 | Almost two weeks before tests confirmed she was the first person to die of swine flu, doctors in Oaxaca couldn't figure out what was wrong with a 39-year-old woman who arrived at their hospital gasping for air, her hands and feet blue from oxygen-starved blood.
30 Apr 09 | APELDOORN: At least two people died after a car slammed into crowds at a festival attended by members of the Dutch royal family in the western city of Apeldoorn yesterday.
30 Apr 09 | THE HAGUE: Four people died when a car slammed into a crowd at a festival attended by the Dutch royal family in the western city of Apeldoorn yesterday.
30 Apr 09 | MEXICO CITY: Mexico has ordered a halt to non-essential business and federal government activities in an attempt to stamp out a swine flu epidemic, as the World Health Organisation warned that "all of humanity" is threatened by a pandemic.
30 Apr 09 | IN THE devastating slump that has forced two of Detroit's car makers to the brink of bankruptcy, the United Auto Workers union stands to become one of the industry's few winners.
30 Apr 09 | THE US President, Barack Obama, has described the US Government as a reluctant shareholder in the nation's banks, car makers and insurance companies, promising to exit as soon as market conditions allow, as he faced the media to mark his first 100 days in office.
30 Apr 09 | LEBANON'S pro-Western parliamentary majority leader, Saad Hariri, has urged voters to keep supporting the international tribunal investigating the murder of his father, the former president Rafiq Hariri, despite the release of four key suspects.
30 Apr 09 | THE world is at imminent risk of a pandemic from swine flu, the World Health Organisation warned as it raised the threat awareness level to five out of six.
30 Apr 09 | BEIJING is bristling at reports that the Defence white paper due out tomorrow will call for a build-up of naval and air force power to counter the military threat of rising China.
30 Apr 09 | The World Health Organisation has raised its swine flu alert to phase five out of six, WHO chief Margaret Chan said, signalling that a pandemic was "imminent" following the swine flu outbreak. Phase five, one step short of a full pandemic, is characterised as a "strong signal that a pandemic is imminent and that the time to finalise... the planned mitigation measures is short", according to the WHO's global emergency planning.
29 Apr 09 | WASHINGTON: The first US death from swine flu has been confirmed amid increasing global anxiety over a health menace that authorities around the world are struggling to contain.
29 Apr 09 | THE European Court of Justice has awarded a Greek Cypriot refugee the right to win back land he was forced to flee when war partitioned the island in 1974.
29 Apr 09 | A FOUR-YEAR investigation, two trials and £100 million ($207 million) have failed to convict anyone of the mass murder of 52 people in London's 2005 Tube bombings, sparking calls from family and survivors for an urgent, independent review.
29 Apr 09 | CHINA appears to be re-introducing the tight visa controls and security measures that drastically reduced the capital's population during last year's Olympic Games, this time in anticipation of the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China.
29 Apr 09 | The US-convened meeting of major economies in Washington to discuss climate change has ended with high hopes of a global agreement by year's end.
29 Apr 09 | KEVIN RUDD has expanded Australia's military commitment in Afghanistan and put his stamp on a war that he says is becoming increasingly unpopular.
29 Apr 09 | THE first death from swine flu outside Mexico has been confirmed amid increasing global anxiety over a health menace that authorities around the world are struggling to contain.
29 Apr 09 | THE US economy shrank by a worse-than-expected 6.1 per cent during the first three months of 2009, dampening hopes that the recession might be easing in the US.
29 Apr 09 | PRESIDENT Barack Obama's chances of passing major health care reform this year and reregulating corporate America have risen sharply after a surprise, game-changing development on Tuesday: the defection of the Republican senator from Pennsylvania, Arlen Specter, to the Democrats.
29 Apr 09 | SIX Australian politicians, led by a senator named Hogg, who landed at the epicentre of Mexico's swine flu crisis this week, have found themselves the centre of unwanted attention.