Iranians reject President's hardline stance
Iran's hardline President suffers an embarrassing rebuff at the polls, with final results handing victory to his opponents in local council elections. more
- Police to reopen unsolved murders as two still held
- Missing man lies dormant 24 days
7:18am US President grimly warns of need for new 'sacrifices' in new year and says hard choices await. more
- Dozens of corpses cuffed and tortured
- Al-Qaeda urges Palestinian holy war
Bush signals plans to beef up the military
George Bush says he plans to increase the size of the military, to fight in Iraq and to fight the war on terror. more
- Blair calls for Middle East moderates to unite against Iran
- Gaza peace deal halts factional bloodshed
Support for Abbas vital, says Blair
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas tells British PM he will push on with plans for early elections. more
- Blair dashes off on Mission Improbable
- US the loser in Iraq's growing civil war, says Powell
Australian killed in Iraq feared for his life
10:19am A Brisbane father of three killed in Iraq had worried about deadly attacks, his friend says. more
- Envoys join clamour to quit Iraq
- Talks start on N Korea's nuclear plans
Envoys join clamour to quit Iraq
Two former ambassadors urge the Government to get Australian troops out of Iraq. more
Hicks' lawyers suffer setback
12:10pm Judge delays attempt to fast-track Australian terror suspect hearing until after he's heard from government lawyers. more
- Family put on hold for Hicks Christmas call
- Court upholds Australian's deportation
- Drug raid grounds Muslim high-flyer
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'Ipswich Ripper' fears mount
12:03pm UK police fear murdered prostitutes may be victims of a serial killer. more
- Holocaust conference sparks outrage
- Downer warns against 'disastrous' US pullout
- Dual car bomb kills at least 71 in Baghdad
- Annan in farewell swipe at Bush
- Nelson warns US against Iraq withdrawal
Democracy calling
After 30 years of conflict, Aceh votes to elect a governor. more
- Abbas calls early poll in risky move
- Arab world a 'powder keg'
- Rudd demands Iraq response from PM
- Iraq 'humanitarian catastrophe' warning
- US not winning Iraq war: defence nominee
- Hanson a 'bloodsucker': Brown
- Howard's bio-terror distortion
Crash evokes 9/11 horror
8:43am New Yorkers look fearfully to the skies as a light plane ploughs into a tower block, killing a star baseballer. more
- Timor leader told to stand down
- 600,000 Iraqis killed: survey
Bashir cleared over Bali bombings
JOHN Howard today sympathised with families of Australians killed in the 2002 Bali bombings after Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir was cleared of involvement - but said there was nothing he could do.
Fog grounds London flights
LONDON'S holiday exodus was thrown into chaos today as dense fog forced airlines to cancel flights, leaving tens of thousands of passengers stranded.

Holocaust-denier to be freed
AN Austrian court has ruled that convicted British Holocaust-denier, David Irving, should now be released and serve the remainder of his sentence on probation.
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