Sheik fights critics from sickbed - Sydney Morning Herald

" Email Print Normal font Large font Apology … Sheik Hilaly in his bed yesterday. Photo: Courtesy Channel Nine Latest related coverage A history of fiery rhetoric Paul Sheehan: Sheik's views show up the wider problem with Muslim men Video: Call for sheik to go A LEADING...

German troops in skull photo shame - The Age

" Email Print Normal font Large font Bild's front page skull picture story. Photo: AFP PHOTOGRAPHS of German soldiers posing with a human skull in Afghanistan have triggered outrage in Germany and cast a shadow over plans to raise its military profile worldwide. The Bild...

Sheik's sexist comments create storm - The Age

" Email Print Normal font Large font Prime Minister John Howard has condemned remarks by Australia's most senior Islamic cleric likening immodestly dressed women to meat that attracted cats. "They are appalling and reprehensible comments," Mr Howard told reporters on a...

Photographer freed after kidnapping - The Age

" Email Print Normal font Large font Palestinian gunmen kidnapped a Spanish photographer working for the Associated Press news agency in Gaza, keeping him captive nearly 13 hours before pressure from Palestinian officials secured his release. Emilio Morenatti, 37, was...

Kim confirms no plan for second test - Sydney Morning Herald

" Email Print Normal font Large font The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, has told Chinese officials that Pyongyang is not planning to test a second nuclear bomb, and would only return to talks under conditions, China's Foreign Ministry said yesterday. A spokesman also said...

US official retracts Iraq 'stupidity' remark - The Age

" Email Print Normal font Large font A SENIOR United States diplomat has apologised for saying US policy in Iraq displayed "arrogance" and "stupidity" as the Bush Administration denied it was preparing to offer Iraq a timetable for taking control of national security. US...

Iceland set to begin whale kill - The Age

" Email Print Normal font Large font ICELAND'S decision to approve new commercial hunting for minke and fin whales has confirmed a resurgence in whaling. Icelandic whaling company Hvalur said it planned to start hunting immediately despite the onset of the North Atlantic...

Thai PM picks mostly civilians for cabinet - Sydney Morning Herald

" Email Print Normal font Large font THAILAND'S army-appointed Prime Minister, Surayud Chulanont, has named a cabinet long on experience and short on generals in an attempt to repair the country's tarnished international image after last month's military coup. The cabinet,...

Kremlin remains silent on murder of top journalist - Sydney Morning Herald

" Email Print Normal font Large font Chief suspect … surveillance footage made public by police. Photo: Reuters A RUSSIAN newspaper has offered a reward of 25 million roubles ($1.25 million) for information on the murder of its award-winning investigative reporter, as...

Relations with China depend on Abe's tightrope walking - Sydney Morning H...

" Email Print Normal font Large font OF ALL the humiliations China endured early last century - when millenniums of civilisation and achievement were humbled to the caricature of an opium-smoking, pigtailed Chinaman - none matches the Japanese invasion. Japan's wartime...

HMAS Geraldton decommissioned (Sydney Morning Herald)

" Email Print Normal font Large font After 23 years of active service, HMAS Geraldton has lowered her white ensign for the last time. The Royal Australian Navy's Fremantle Class Patrol Boat (FCPB) was decommissioned in a traditional ceremony in her home port of Darwin on...

Ambrose stepping up bid for NASCAR drive (The Age)

" Email Print Normal font Large font Former dual V8 supercar champion Marcos Ambrose will take a major step up next year in his bid for a drive in the prestigious NASCAR saloon car racing series in the US. Ambrose has been confirmed as a fulltime NASCAR Busch driver in 2007,...

Ambrose stepping up bid for NASCAR drive (Sydney Morning Herald)

" Email Print Normal font Large font Former dual V8 supercar champion Marcos Ambrose will take a major step up next year in his bid for a drive in the prestigious NASCAR saloon car racing series in the US. Ambrose has been confirmed as a fulltime NASCAR Busch driver in 2007,...

'Lost' has puzzling season premiere (AP)

" NEW YORK - "Lost" settled a few questions — sort of — while posing many more on the premiere of its third season Wednesday. While the ABC mystical adventure series focused on three members (Jack, Kate and Sawyer) of the stranded community, the rest of the group...