22/08/2008 | RUSSIA plans to establish a long-term presence inside Georgia and one of its breakaway republics by adding 18 checkpoints, including at least eight within undisputed Georgian territory outside the pro-Russian enclave of South Ossetia, a Russian military official has revealed.
22/08/2008 | HUNDREDS of muscular men in black, gangs of street thugs and flag-waving militia singing Indonesia's anthem besieged South Jakarta Court yesterday, decrying murder charges against the former chief of Indonesia's special forces and deputy head of the National Intelligence Agency.
22/08/2008 | THE death of the second leader of the People's Republic China, Hua Guofeng, has passed with barely a ripple in Beijing.
21/08/2008 | Moscow is holding its ground despite sharp criticism, writes Paul McGeough.
| Russia to take its time on ... | Russian troops dig in
21/08/2008 | TYING Pacific aid to progress indicators and guest worker schemes will not solve a security crisis on Australia's doorstep, argue the authors of a new report, The Bipolar Pacific. .
21/08/2008 | THE Chinese Government has gone to new extremes to prevent anyone from protesting in its three official Olympic protest parks, with two elderly residents each ordered to serve a year's "re-education through labour".
21/08/2008 | AUSTRALIA dispensed with the usual subjects of rugby, sheep, underarm bowling and the Kiwis' risible Olympic medal count yesterday and found a new way to offend New Zealand.
20/08/2008 | Georgia and Russia have exchanged prisoners but Moscow says not to expect a rapid troop withdrawal.
19/08/2008 | Controversy over the allegedly under-aged Chinese gymnast He Kexin takes a new and unexpected twist.
19/08/2008 | EVIDENCE has emerged raising doubts that East Timor's President, Jose Ramos-Horta, was shot and almost killed by a member of the late rebel leader Alfredo Reinado's gang.
19/08/2008 | PAKISTAN'S President Pervez Musharraf, a key Western ally in the fight against terrorism, has chosen to resign rather than face impeachment by his political foes in the governing coalition.
19/08/2008 | A plan to retain Russian "peacekeepers" in the embattled Caucasus republic of Georgia has sparked new tensions.
18/08/2008 | Taiwan's former president, Chen Shui-bian, has been barred from leaving the country as an investigation into allegations of money laundering expanded.
18/08/2008 | KHALIL HANUN'S 35-year legal fight to prevent a Jewish settler group from taking possession of his home in disputed East Jerusalem will enter a critical phase this week when an Israeli court decides whether to keep him in jail for disobeying orders to vacate the property.
18/08/2008 | An Australian journalist in San Francisco, Margot Denney, writes that life in the Californian education system falls short of the American dream.
18/08/2008 | Today, 50 years after the US military's nuclear tests on the Marshall Islands ended, islanders are still fighting to make their environment safe. A US radioactive dump is cracking up, but Washington is refusing to spend any more money on a clean-up. Ivan Broadhead reports.
17/08/2008 | Dozens of strangers helped lift a 4.5-tonne bus off a pregnant woman in New York - a heroic effort that saved the life of her child but was too late for her.
17/08/2008 | Bigfoot lived in northern Georgia and his cousins are still there. At least that's what a pair of hunters and a Californian Bigfoot expert cum promoter continue to claim.
17/08/2008 | RUSSIAN troops dug in close to the Georgian capital yesterday, showing no sign of preparing to withdraw, as pressure mounted on Moscow to stick to a French-brokered ceasefire.
17/08/2008 | Wider crematorium furnaces will have to be built across Britain to cater for "stouter clients" as the obesity epidemic continues.