FAMILIES of the 228 people who died when an Air France jet airliner crashed off Brazil's northeast coast in June held a private memorial service on Saturday at an ocean overlook in Rio de Janeiro.
CZECH Interim Prime Minister Jan Fischer has rejected an offer to step down and take a job as the Czech representative in the EU executive, the European Commission.
THE grandfather of a US Army psychiatrist accused of shooting dead 13 people and wounding 30 others at a base in Texas said he found it impossible to believe his grandson had committed the act.
A $320 MILLION government bailout of James Hardie's fund for asbestos victims will be repaid and does not excuse the struggling company from its obligations to the fund, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says.
US President Barack Obama is to address America's jobs crisis in a speech at 1630 GMT (03.30 AEDT) after the US unemployment rate jumped past the symbolic 10 percent barrier, the White House says.
US President Barack Obama led his nation in mourning on Saturday as shocked Americans struggled to understand why a Muslim army doctor killed 13 in a massacre at a US military base.
DISGRACED by a criminal conviction in a trial centred on arms sales to Angola when it was at war, the son of former French President Francois Mitterrand still sees a future for himself doing business in Africa.
KEVIN Rudd is running an "extraordinarily vain" government that is handing over Australia's immigration program to people smugglers, Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull says.
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