In a small detached bungalow on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City a teenage girl gently cries. Her name is Que. She is 17 and pregnant, but she cannot keep her baby. "I really want to," she quietly sobbed, "but my family is too poor...

As I heard the news of the demise of the Right-wing Coalition in the Polish Elections I wondered if the fall of yet another of Bush's allies was a bad omen for John Howard, whose Australian coalition faces the voters on November 24.

US President George W. Bush was a "dunderhead" for thinking that sending troops to Iraq was making the world a safer place, an outspoken Australian politician said yesterday.

Demonstrators protesting the visit of U.S. President George W. Bush clashed with a pro-Bush group in Sydney, a day before a rally is expected to attract 7,000 people. The protesters have a range of causes from the war in Iraq to human and labor rights.

Internationally-recognised human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson QC says Australia's courts are becoming irrelevant because of the lack of a bill of rights. Mr Robertson says Australia's failure to adopt a bill of rights may explain why the nation has...

..there are cops in disguise -- usually as "anarchists" -- trying to start shit so that the uniformed cops can smash skulls and shoot their water cannons and rubber bullets and tear-gas cannisters at the real protesters who were just peacefully protesting..

It can get to be 127 degrees Fahrenheit in the Australian town of Coober Pedy -- and that's in the shade. The town's name comes from two aboriginal words meaning "white man in a hole." Coober Pedy bills itself as the "opal mining capital of the world,"

She was wearing a Mayan dress, the traditional attire of indigenous people in central America, and the hotel's response was also traditional: throw her out. Staff at Cancun's five-star Hotel Coral Beach assumed this was another street vendor or beggar...

"This is a catastrophe that cannot be described in words," Nineveh province governor Duraid Kashmoula said. In scenes reminiscent of an earthquake zone, bodies lay in the street, covered in blankets, amid the shattered ruins of clay-built houses.

A 12-year-old Indian girl was beaten and then hanged by her mother for demanding she be sent to school. The girl was beaten unconscious with a rolling pin by her mother in a village in Jodhpur district in the western desert state of Rajasthan this month.