8/08/2008 | KEVIN RUDD yesterday raised the Olympic and then the Australian flag in the athletes village in Beijing, as expectations grew about how the Prime Minister would address the human rights issue after the US President, George Bush, delivered a reprimand to China on the issue.
8/08/2008 | THERE was a Prime Minister, an ex-prime minister and a princess all in the ballroom of the Sofitel Beijing. And all three were treated like groupies, swarmed by hundreds of members of the Australian O...
8/08/2008 | ASSOCIATED costs such as cancelled air fares and accommodation will not be refundable to victims of the Beijing Olympics ticketing scam through their credit-card providers because the purchases cannot...
8/08/2008 | When Gaza's powerful tribes came up against the Hamas government, something had to give, writes Paul McGeough.
8/08/2008 | THE Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, has announced the release of 150 Palestinian prisoners as a personal gesture to the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas.
8/08/2008 | THE Greek-Australian who received the heart of Doujon Zammit, the 20-year-old Australian killed in Mykonos last week, is the Athens television reporter Kostas Gribilas.
7/08/2008 | One of 13 French politicians accused of taking part in the 1994 genocide slams Kigali for an "unacceptable" attempt to rewrite history.
7/08/2008 | Activists use the Olympic stage to highlight their opposition to Chinese Government policies.
7/08/2008 | AUSTRALIA'S two International Olympic Committee members, Kevan Gosper and Phil Coles, engaged in a loud slanging match at a cocktail party held by the Hong Kong Jockey Club at its Beijing clubhous...
7/08/2008 | POLICE in Los Angeles have declared the accused kidnapper Clark Rockefeller a "person of interest" in the disappearance of a newlywed couple from a wealthy suburb in 1985, adding a gruesome new dimension to the mystery over Rockefeller's true identity.
6/08/2008 | Man accused of stabbing, beheading and cannibalising passengeer on a bus in Canada pleads for someone to "please kill me".
6/08/2008 | CHANNEL NINE learned last night that its reporters will be allowed to continue working in Beijing after the station was caught illegally filming inside an Olympic venue.
Nine had formally apologis...
6/08/2008 | SEVEN risks breaking Olympic broadcast guidelines with an ad campaign due to be aired the night of the opening ceremony.
GetUp! and the Australia Tibet Council have booked time for a commercial ur...
6/08/2008 | The mastermind behind the Beijing Olympics ticketing scam is believed to be a Briton with a long history of operating fraudulent ticketing schemes.
6/08/2008 | THE Olympics medical chief struck out last night at "systematic, planned doping" involving seven of Russia's top female track and field athletes and warned the nation's officials would...
6/08/2008 | ISRAEL has denied any involvement in the assassination of a leading Syrian general close to the President, Bashar al-Assad.
6/08/2008 | REFLECTING the sensitivity of high petrol prices, the Democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama, has unveiled a new energy package that includes $US1000 ($1085) for households to help meet high energy costs and a plan to take 70 million barrels from the strategic oil reserve.
6/08/2008 | Lessons of the Grim Reaper decade have been overlooked in a broad campaign to prevent HIV, writes Ruth Pollard in Mexico City.
5/08/2008 | Zimbabwe's president returns home following intense pressure from China not to attend the Olympic Games opening.
5/08/2008 | EVER heard of Birch Evan Bayh III? The popular Indiana senator, better known by as Evan Bayh, has rocketed into contention as a possible vice-president to Democratic nominee Barack Obama.
His elev...