28/08/2008 | The Republican Party has dispatched nearly all its cast of would-be vice-presidents to Denver a bid to steal the Democrats' limelight.
28/08/2008 | "She was absolutely beautiful tonight. Moving. Impeccable," Nancy Mills, a Hillary Clinton delegate from Pennsylvania said after the senator's speech.
28/08/2008 | Australia's 750-strong troop commitment to East Timor could be over by the end of next year, as security in the nation steadily improves, the East Timorese Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmao, said yesterday.
28/08/2008 | As the tiny Georgian territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia celebrated Russia's decision to recognise their independence yesterday, the Kremlin's threat it is ready for another Cold War saw its relations with western Europe hit a new low.
28/08/2008 | An Australian freelance journalist kidnapped in Somalia could be held captive until a ransom of up to $US1 million ($1.16 million) is paid, an international security officer in the country said.
28/08/2008 | DENVER: The up-and-coming faces of the Democratic Party, particularly those from battleground states, had prime real estate at the convention yesterday.
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28/08/2008 | DENVER: Authorities have dismissed alleged threats against the US presidential candidate, Barack Obama, as the ugly racist rantings of drug-addled methamphetamine users rather than a genuine danger to...
28/08/2008 | Hillary nailed it. In what was the most anticipated moment of the Democratic National Convention short of Barack Obama's acceptance speech, the failed aspirant to the presidency warned her supporters that too much was at stake to indulge in a protest vote on her behalf.
28/08/2008 | Sixty children were killed in air strikes by US-led coalition warplanes in western Afghanistan last week, a UN investigation has found.
27/08/2008 | Xanana Gusmao's many roles include teacher, guerilla leader, political prisoner and symbolic president of a traumatised nation.
27/08/2008 | A presentation by Barack Obama's wife and a tribute from the gravely ill Edward Kennedy open the Democratic Party's convention.
27/08/2008 | EVACUATION procedures for wounded soldiers in Afghanistan are appropriate and were not to blame for the death last month of Signalman Sean McCarthy, an internal Defence Force review has found.
27/08/2008 | JAPANESE scientists are claiming vindication for their controversial lethal research whaling with a discovery that Antarctic minke whales are fast growing thinner.
27/08/2008 | THE random arrest of a suspected drunk driver has led US federal officials to investigate a possible assassination plot against the Democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama.
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26/08/2008 | Hollywood has always been a generous benefactor of Democratic politics but the real stars are being kept a little at arm's length this year.
26/08/2008 | INDIAN police have detained three prominent Muslim separatist leaders in Kashmir as a wave of protests in favour of self-determination challenges India's grip on the troubled Himalayan region.
26/08/2008 | ISRAEL will allow a group of Palestinian students to sail from Gaza to Cyprus on Wednesday aboard two boats which managed to dock in the tiny Palestinian territory over the weekend.
26/08/2008 | A HUGE police presence has taken to the streets of Denver, Colorado, in preparation for the start of the Democratic National Convention today as anti-war protesters pledged to disrupt proceedings as they did in Chicago in 1968.
25/08/2008 | The spotlight may be focused on Barack Obama but he won't be the biggest star shining.
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25/08/2008 | When Joe Biden was a kid he had a stutter, cruelly earning him the name Bi-Bi-Biden.
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