The front runner in this weekend’s Australian general election put climate charge firmly at the top of his agenda today.

Serbia’s foreign minister is proposing an eight-point agenda for new talks on Kosovo that would be unlimited in time and without independence for the Serbian province as the pre-determined outcome.

The memory of race rioting cast a shadow over Australia Day celebrations today as hundreds of extra police patrolled beaches to prevent possible fresh flare-ups.

Angelina Jolie faced hordes of photographers as she spoke for orphan refugees in Washington DC yesterday.

The US government is getting ready to test a bird flu vaccine and stockpiling both vaccine and antiviral drugs as the threat grows that a deadly strain of avian influenza will begin spreading from Asia.

A crowd of 300 linked arms and marched through downtown Atlanta and the neighbourhoods where Martin Luther King Jr grew up to mark the 40th anniversary of the murdered civil rights leader’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

Russia is leaving the door slightly open to compromise as the Bush administration insists on a new UN resolution to threaten Iraq with war if it does not disarm.

America's First Lady says the US has become a kinder place since the September 11 terrorist attacks.