7:25 AM AEDT | The refusal of the US president-elect to comment on the Gaza conflict disappoints Arab leaders, Palestinian Foreign Affairs Minister says.
1:00 AM AEDT | NEW YORK: The most striking things about Gaza are the emptiness of the streets and how vulnerable the civilians are in their homes, a United Nations official said yesterday.
1:00 AM AEDT | THE former prime minister John Howard is the first Australian political leader to be honoured with a Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honour bestowed by the President of the United States.
1:00 AM AEDT | IT IS a dream that has been shared by lovers across the centuries - eloping to exotic lands. But few would have been as bold and spontaneous as six-year-old Mika and his seven-year-old sweetheart, Anna-Lena, who, after mulling over their options in secret, packed their suitcases on New Year's Eve and set off from Germany to tie the knot under the heat of the African sun.
1:00 AM AEDT | HAMAS has been tunnelling in Gaza for months, as soldiers from Israel's Golani Brigade discovered when they entered a house to find that no less than three tunnels led away from it.
6/01/2009 | Israeli forces inch closer to central Gaza City as Hamas fighters try to lure them into a dangerous urban conflict.
6/01/2009 | ISRAEL'S director of military intelligence, Major General Amos Yadlin, warned yesterday of the possibility that the Lebanese paramilitary force, Hezbollah, could open a second front against Israel and that it might fire rockets on Israel within the next few days.
6/01/2009 | MORE than 100 Australian Jews, including two award-winning novelists and a former federal cabinet minister, have signed a statement condemning Israel's siege of Gaza, heightening tensions within the local Jewish community over the violence.
6/01/2009 | ISRAELI forces inched closer to central Gaza City yesterday as Hamas fighters tried to lure them into a dangerous urban conflict where they would be more exposed to ambush raids.
6/01/2009 | IN THE days before his death, late in 2004, Yasser Arafat looked back in time and assessed his people's forlorn history.
6/01/2009 | TO BE in the path of a Qassam rocket can be unnerving to say the least.
6/01/2009 | AN AUSTRALIAN soldier has been killed in Afghanistan by a rocket fired by the Taliban at a southern base.
6/01/2009 | THE president-elect, Barack Obama, has moved to cut short any further ethical controversies surrounding his yet-to-be-sworn-in administration by accepting the withdrawal of his commerce secretary nominee, Bill Richardson.
6/01/2009 | THE French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, was due to arrive in Jerusalem last night with a high-ranking European Union delegation as the EU's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, admitted there had been a "failure of diplomacy" in response to the Gaza crisis so far.
5/01/2009 | The objective at the heart of Operation Cast Lead calls for Israel's air-and-ground assault on Gaza to be given a new name.
5/01/2009 | MORE than 3000 protesters convened outside Sydney Town Hall and marched through the city yesterday, deliberately passing the Egyptian consulate. A similar number marched in Melbourne, both in support ...
5/01/2009 | JAPANESE whalers are pressing for authorities to refuse port entry to Sea Shepherd anti-whaling activists when they return from the Antarctic to refuel.
5/01/2009 | THE Pacific Islands should set up a regional human rights body to help reverse decades of poor governance and improve safeguards for women and children, a leading Pacific rights group has recommended.
5/01/2009 | FACIAL expressions of emotion are innate, not learned, research that compared faces of sighted and blind athletes as they weathered defeat shows.
5/01/2009 | THE noise of gunfire and the dull thuds and sharp cracks of shells being fired and exploding could be heard on the Gaza-Israel border yesterday as Israeli forces fought members of the militant Palestinian group Hamas.
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