Crikey! - ‘Steve Irwin’ ship to confront Japanese whalers

"A ship belonging to the anti-whaling Sea Shepherd group has been renamed in memory of wildlife conservationist Steve Irwin.  The ship, previously called the Robert Hunter, is about to sail from Melbourne to the Antarctic, where it will try to stop Japanese whalers from...

Memphis: Gunning for Trouble at Two Schools, One Student Shot

Amazingly, a student gets accidentally shot in class during a gun sales transaction goes bad. How do students bring guns into classrooms? How does a 15-year-old not only own a gun, but be able to sell it?Across town, a school resource officer was injured when an armed ...

Attack on Bhutto convoy kills 120

"More than 120 people have been killed after two bombs exploded among crowds in Karachi celebrating the return of the former Pakistani PM Benazir Bhutto. Ms Bhutto, who was travelling through crowded streets from the city's airport to a rally marking her homecoming after...

Maddie cops quiz pet cremator

"A DUTCH criminal who cremates dead animals in the Algarve told today how detectives had quizzed him about the Madeleine McCann case. Detectives repeatedly asked Eef Hoos, 61, who spent almost eight years in jail for planting bombs in the Netherlands, whether he had ever met...

Anti-APEC Protesters To Target President Bush

"One group of militant APEC protesters is secretly plotting an outbreak of violence for US President George W. Bush's arrival in Sydney tomorrow, distributing a rioter's training manual on how to wear gas masks, confront police and even evade fares."