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Obama honours Mandela on 95th birthday
US President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are sending their wishes and prayers to former South African leader Nelson Mandela on his 95th birthday.
Mayor favours new airport
Airline passengers flying into Heathrow face 16 more years of stacking and stress at the world's busiest airport
Putin plumbs new depths at Baltic Sea
Russian President Vladimir Putin has dived to the bottom of the Baltic Sea on board a submersible to explore a shipwreck, the latest in a long line of publicity stunts.
PM ticks off party in Italy's 'shameful' row
Italy's Prime Minister issued an ultimatum yesterday to the powerful Northern League, saying that racist remarks had shamed the country.
New parties spring up to fight poll
In the bearpit of Australian politics, it helps to have the Terminator on your side.
US aims for more tourists with NZ base
The United States hopes to capitalise on the surge of New Zealanders heading to that country by setting up a dedicated marketing organisation in Auckland.
Rudd ramps up policy pressure as poll support grows
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has firmly taken control of Australia's political agenda.
Abbott rival rules out tilt
Malcolm Turnbull says he knows many people would prefer he lead Australia's Liberal Party rather than Tony Abbott, but that they should vote for the party anyway.
MP hit in Irish riot
A missile knocked a leading Northern Irish politician unconscious as sectarian tensions escalated into rioting in Belfast at the climax of the Protestant marching season.
First lady more than third wife
Shakespeare, in one of Nelson Mandela's favourite lines, now strangely apposite, says that "the valiant never taste of death but once".
Arrest orders for Brotherhood leadership dim prospects of political reconciliation
Egypt's military authorities ordered the arrest of the Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader yesterday for inciting an outbreak of violence that left at least 51 of the movement's supporters dead.
Revitalised Labor eyes early election
The Australian Labor Party has cleared its decks for the coming election, setting aside other business and raising speculation Prime Minister Kevin Rudd could call an early vote.
Rudd hails 'Aboriginal Magna Carta'
Fifty years ago, the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land presented two petitions framed by ochre bark paintings to the federal Parliament.
Boat people pawns in vote battle
The spectre of the 2001 Tampa crisis - in which the SAS was sent to take over a Norwegian container ship off Christmas Island - has been thrust into the Australian election campaign.
Rudd widens lead in new poll
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has widened his lead over Tony Abbott as the country's preferred leader, according to a new poll.
Paris accused of US-style spying
France's Government spies on its own citizens in the same way as the United States, it was claimed yesterday.
Crackdown on Brotherhood
Fresh from toppling the country's first democratically elected leader, Egypt's military risked further outrage from the Muslim Brotherhood by arresting the group's Supreme Guide as he was staying in a resort by the Mediterranean coast.
Mother of seven takes on Merkel
She is a rising star in European politics - the one woman who could, it is claimed, succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor.