World News
- Obama voted in by delegates
Netherlands News.Net
Barack Obama has swept to the Democratic presidential nomination after thousands of national convention voted him in.
- World War II body found hanging from tree in New Guinea
Netherlands News.Net
New Guinean authorities, with the help of the Australian, US and Japanese governments, are investigating the discovery of what is thought to be the skeleton of a World War II pilot.
- UK minister warns Ukraine it could be catalyst for new Cold War
Netherlands News.Net
Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband has used a visit to Ukraine to warn Russia not to start a new Cold War.
- Thai court orders anti-government protest arrests
Netherlands News.Net
Thailand's criminal court has issued arrest warrants for eight leaders of an anti-government protest group that took over several state buildings to try to force the administration to resign.
- Iraq forces due to reclaim dangerous province
Netherlands News.Net
Iraqi forces are due to take over Anbar province.
- Taliban militant numbers reduced by allied troops
Netherlands News.Net
Nearly 80 suspected Taliban militants were killed in coalition airstrikes and clashes with Afghan forces, while four Afghan policemen were killed in a roadside bomb blast in southern region on Wednesday.
- UAE president pardons jail inmates
Netherlands News.Net
President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has granted an executive pardon to 700 prisoners, both UAE nationals and expatriates, lodged in various jails across the country ahead of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
- British troops in grave danger in Afghanistan
Netherlands News.Net
Afghanistan is now more dangerous for British troops than Iraq has ever been, a new report has revealed.
- Hijackers allow passengers to leave
Netherlands News.Net
The hijackers of a Sudanese plane flown to Libya have freed all 95 passengers on board.
- Barack Obama plot put together by rascists
Netherlands News.Net
US federal investigation authorities have said that people arrested in connection with a possible plot to kill Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, were consumed by a seething hatred towards the Illinois Senator.
- Cancer can be detected by odour
Netherlands News.Net
Researchers are developing a new tool to smell and identify specific gases exhaled in the breath of a person with cancer, for its early detection.
- Tears of joy as Obama makes history
CNN
... quot;If three years ago, someone had said to me on the streets of New York that somebody named Barack Obama would be our nominee, I would have said they were crazy," said Hemsley, an...
- Language problems linked to plane crash
The Daily Telegraph
AUTHORITIES investigating yesterday's fatal small plane crash in Melbourne's south say they will examine claims about language barriers being a possible cause.
- Obama steals back show from Billary
The Australian
BARACK Obama has made a surprise appearance at the Democratic national convention hours after Bill and Hillary Clinton had threatened to steal the show on the day he officially made history. As day...
- Slowdown fears ease on spending surge
The Australian
... said today. Economists had expected a smaller rise of 2 per cent. In addition, first quarter capital expenditure rose a revised 1.0 per cent, a far better result than the 2.5 per cent fall originally...
- U.S. military sending foreign fighters to home nations
International Herald Tribune
United States military personnel at the air base in Bagram, Afghanistan, in 2005. Foreign fighters who are captured in Afghanistan are held at the base.
- Bankruptcies Soar For Seniors, Study Finds
CBS News
AP) First came the health problems. Then, unable to work, Ada Noda watched the bills pile up. And then, suffocating in debt, the 80-year-old did something she never thought she'd be forced to do.She...
- VP nominee leads the attack
USA Today
DENVER Barack Obama portrays himself as a new kind of presidential candidate, but Joe Biden is likely to spend this campaign as the most traditional of vice presidential nominees: leading the...
- Clinton declares Obama ready to lead
The Australian
Mr Clinton's endorsement came despite ongoing reports that the former president is angry that Senator Obama won the nomination over his wife Hillary Clinton. Today he tried to end the division....
- NAB, Telstra in mobile payment trials
The Australian
The trial will run over the next three months and will involve 200 customers and 12 merchants.Trail participants will be required to download a software application to their mobile phone that links a...
- Anwar sworn in to Malaysian Parliament
International Herald Tribune
Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim took his place Thursday as a member of Malaysia's Parliament, a major step in his goal to topple a government weakened by electoral defeats and internal dissent. ...
- Three elephants pregnant in Australia
New Zealand Herald
No baby elephant has ever been born in Australia - but now three elephants are pregnant at zoos in Sydney and Melbourne.Zoo authorities announced today a third elephant, Pontipp, is in...
- If you voted for Hillary, now vote for Barack
New Zealand Herald
All eyes now on an ego-bruised Bill Former President Bill Clinton forcefully endorsed Barack Obama's bid for the White House today, telling delegates to the Democratic convention that Obama...
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