1:00 AM AEDT | EVERY day nearly 60,000 beggars hit the streets of Delhi to vie for the city's generosity.
1:00 AM AEDT | Should some subjects - such as the Holocaust - be off-limits to writers and filmmakers? The German author Bernhard Schlink looks at the rules for fiction when dealing with the past.
1:00 AM AEDT | ONE of the first things to know if attending one of the eight official inaugural balls to be held in Washington on the night of January 20 is that there is unlikely to be any dancing - except by the f...
1:00 AM AEDT | NO ILLNESS is funny - except Tourette's syndrome at a Baptist revival - but Clostridium difficile infection deserves special sympathy, especially considering the cure.
1:00 AM AEDT | Mid last year, the Obama campaign computers were attacked by a virus. The campaign figured it was a routine attack using common methods. It was sophisticated foreign cyber-espionage.
Obama HQ prom...
1:00 AM AEDT | THE entrepreneur who promised Australian men longer lasting sex has fallen foul of British advertising authorities by installing almost 200 of the signature brash billboards across greater London.
1:00 AM AEDT | ON THE beach road halfway between Gaza City and the Egyptian border, a rusting white sign announces a forgotten international development project.
1:00 AM AEDT | THE Israeli commentator Aluf Benn has a name for the moment at which a "good" war goes bad. He calls it the "euphoria point".
Answering his own question on what turns a bold mil...
1:00 AM AEDT | Few have the nerve to barge in like Dan Kurtzer. If he wanted something off his chest, he'd march into the highest office in the land. In the mid-1980s, as a US diplomat in Tel Aviv, Kurtzer did n...
1:00 AM AEDT | VLADIMIR PUTIN vehemently denied his country was to blame for the gas crisis and said Ukraine's "criminal leadership" was responsible for "turning off" Europe's gas supplies.
9/01/2009 | Nine Afghan civilians reportedly injured - some possibly killed - in a clash between Australian and Western troops and the Taliban.
9/01/2009 | FLANKED by his father, former president George H. Bush, and former president Bill Clinton, with Jimmy Carter a little to one side, the younger Bush seemed to bounce on his toes, like a sportsman awaiting a curved ball. Beside him, Barack Obama seemed almost languid.
9/01/2009 | INDIA'S $83 billion IT and outsourcing industry has been dealt a severe blow - and the country's sharemarket rocked - by revelations that one of its biggest companies had been fudging the books for years.
9/01/2009 | WASHINGTON: The Democratic leadership has cleared the way for Roland Burris to replace Barack Obama in the Senate a week after threatening to block him because he had been appointed by a scandal-hit governor.
9/01/2009 | IT WAS a combined love of statistics and politics, and a bit of serendipity, that propelled Madura Wijewardena, 35, a Sydney lawyer, onto the year-long campaign trail for the US president-elect, Barack Obama.
9/01/2009 | SIXTEEN watches, including diamond-encrusted timepieces from Tiffany and Cartier. Four diamond brooches. Two sets of cuff links. An emerald ring.
9/01/2009 | JOE the plumber, the Ohio man who became the Republican Party's pin-up boy during the US election campaign, has a new gig: he is heading to Israel as a reporter for a conservative website, pjtv.com.
9/01/2009 | AMBULANCES have been able to drive to some of the most heavily shelled areas in Gaza for the first time to collect the injured and dead, as Israel paused its military offensive for three hours to allo...
9/01/2009 | An Indian dossier of proof points the finger at its neighbour, writes Matt Wade in New Delhi.
9/01/2009 | ISRAELI fears of a war on two fronts intensified yesterday after Palestinian militants in southern Lebanon backed by the radical Islamic Hezbollah movement launched a missile attack on Israel that wounded two people.
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