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Honduras’ Zelaya stuck in embassy for Christmas »
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya will spend Christmas with his family stuck inside the soldier-ringed Brazilian Embassy where he has been holed up for months after being toppled in a June coup.
Treasury sanctions Iraq-based insurgent group »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury on Tuesday imposed sanctions on an Iraq-based insurgent group that it said threatened the peace and stabilization efforts in Iraq.
British High Commissioner: We’ll all live with the consequences of Copenhagen failure »
We will all live with the consequences of our government’s failure to achieve a legally binding agreement at Copenhagen, writes British High Commissioner to Australia Valerie Amos .
Channel tunnel trains put on hold »
High-speed rail service between Britain and continental Europe has been suspended indefinitely, after weather-related disruptions stranded passengers for hours in the English Channel tunnel.
Israel took organs without consent »
Israel admits that in the 1990s its forensic pathologists harvested organs from dead bodies, including Palestinians, without permission.
China targets 8% growth in 2010 »
China will target eight percent economic growth next year as the government maintains pro-growth policies aimed at fighting the global turn-down, a top minister said Monday.
Rudd set to try again for carbon tax »
RUDD Government to push ahead with its ETS scheme even though other nations refuse to reach a legally binding agreement.
Car ploughs into Christmas party, kills boy »
A BOY has died after a drunk driver crashed into a garden where the child was playing with his family.
Murdered girl’s final words of joy »
AN hour before she was killed, Emma Wighton was celebrating finishing primary school.
Hail Mary the Australian saint »
POPE Benedict XVI has approved a second miracle by the nineteenth-century Australian nun Mother Mary MacKillop.