World News
11 Aug 09 | THE number of Australians flocking to the Kokoda Track has doubled each year over the past decade.
11 Aug 09 | The Herald's Hamish McDonald took the same flight from Port Moresby last month. He recalls the excitement and apprehension among trekkers.
11 Aug 09 | AN EXTENSIVE search was to resume at daybreak today for an aircraft missing in mountainous country along the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea with 13 people, including nine Australian tourists, aboard.
11 Aug 09 | A charter plane with eight Australians heading to the Kokoda Track is missing, having failed to reach its destination in Papua New Guinea.
The Twin Otter, twin-engine, plane left the capital Port Moresby this morning at 9.30am (local time) but had failed to return this afternoon.
11 Aug 09 | KINSHASA: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday showed a rare flash of public anger on a trip to Africa as a student asked for her husband's views, putting him in his place by saying she is the United States' top diplomat.
'My husband is not the secretary of state, I am', Hillary tells student.
11 Aug 09 | Olivia Newton-John's missing ex-lover Pat McDermott is believed to have come out of hiding and urged investigators to leave him alone.
Britain's News of the World newspaper has reported how McDermott, who was presumed to have drowned on a fishing trip off the coast of Los Angeles in 2005, had a friend fax a letter on his behalf begging investigators to stop their search for him.
11 Aug 09 | A tsunami alert has been cancelled two hours after a massive earthquake off mainland South-east Asia in the Indian Ocean this morning, the US Government’s Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre says.
11 Aug 09 | At least 34 people died and scores more were reported missing on Monday after typhoons battered East Asia, as parts of the region experienced their worst weather in half a century.
10 Aug 09 | A FAMILIAR question is back on the lips of Washington's movers and shakers - what is next for Bill Clinton?
10 Aug 09 | THE North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, appeared to be ''in full control of his government'' when an American mission met with him last week to free two imprisoned US journalists, said the White House National Security Adviser, Jim Jones.
10 Aug 09 | WASHINGTON: The US military commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, says the Taliban have gained the upper hand in the country, forcing the US to change its strategy by increasing the number of troops in heavily populated areas.
10 Aug 09 | THE withdrawal of the English badminton team from the world championships in the Indian city of Hyderabad because of security fears has raised fresh concerns about how athletes and administrators will react when the Commonwealth Games are held in New Delhi next year.
10 Aug 09 | BAGHDAD: At least 42 people were killed and more than 230 injured in a spate of bloody bomb attacks near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and in Baghdad on Monday.
10 Aug 09 | THE Taliban should prove their assertions that their leader, Baitullah Mehsud, is still alive because the Pakistani Government stands by "credible information" that he was killed last week, the Interior Minister, Rehman Malik, said.
10 Aug 09 | ISRAELI and Palestinian media are reporting that a deal to free kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit could be reached by the end of September.
10 Aug 09 | FOR many Israeli Jews like Olga Samosvatov and Nico Tarosyan, getting married is not as easy as it sounds.
10 Aug 09 | IRAN'S President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has purged the nation's intelligence ministry, sweeping aside ranking officials with decades of experience in favour of loyalists.
10 Aug 09 | Anne Wexler was an unobtrusive figure at the core of US-Australian relations, writes International Editor, Peter Hartcher.
10 Aug 09 | DANI DWI PERMANA was a conscientious, basketball-loving young man, a solid student from a troubled family who, nonetheless, seemed to have a lifetime of promise to fulfil.
10 Aug 09 | THE media in Hong Kong yesterday accused Rio Tinto's Stern Hu of accumulating a personal fortune from bribes from Chinese steel mills, stepping up a Chinese-language media campaign against Rio Tinto and in favour of tighter information controls.