16/10/2008 | Britt Lapthorne's father and brother to embark on their last, sad search for Britt.
| 'Why hasn't Britt been found?' | Britt's dad fears wall of silence
16/10/2008 | THE Neapolitan Camorra, the Naples-based Mafia, planned a massive motorway bomb to kill the bestselling writer Roberto Saviano, the author of a big expose on their activities, as he travelled with his armed Carabinieri bodyguards.
16/10/2008 | INDIA has a booming economy and growing political clout but 200 million of its people still go to bed hungry each night.
15/10/2008 | Britt Lapthorne's father and brother will remain in Dubrovnik to embark on their last search for Britt.
15/10/2008 | The leader of Israel's Kadima Party, Tzipi Livni, secures a written agreement of the Labor Party leader, Ehud Barak, to form a coalition.
15/10/2008 | PARIS: Guillaume Depardieu, the actor son of Gerard, who lived a life of angry rebellion in the shadow of his celebrated father, has died at the age of 37.
15/10/2008 | THE US's weekend move to drop North Korea from its list of sponsors of terrorism - sparking outrage from Japan, South Korea and some quarters of Washington - was the result of the negotiator Christopher Hill outmanoeuvring hardliners in a Bush Administration attempting to clean up its foreign policy legacy.
15/10/2008 | HIS book on voluntary euthanasia is banned in Australia and his trip to Britain has caused an outcry. But at a hall in west London on Monday, a group of over-50s turned up to listen intently as Philip Nitschke explained in minute detail how, if they chose, they could take their own lives.
15/10/2008 | THE judge who signed Britt Lapthorne's autopsy report has confirmed that the damaged state of her body did not allow toxicology tests but said there was no evidence of pre-death trauma.
14/10/2008 | Croatian autopsy finds no evidence of violence but failed to provide any new information on how the 21-year-old Australian died.
14/10/2008 | JOHN McCAIN is considering plans for a new round of tax cuts ahead of the third and final debate this week in an attempt to prove he has a strong prescription to treat the ailing US economy.
14/10/2008 | THE execution by firing squad of the Bali bombers - Mukhlas, Imam Samudra and Amrozi - is set to go ahead within a fortnight. Indonesia's Attorney-General says he will reveal the details by Friday next week.
14/10/2008 | Chinese leaders have vowed to "firmly push forward with rural reform" as they struggle to arrest growing rural-urban inequality and resolve local land disputes.
14/10/2008 | JOERG HAIDER, the polemic populist at the heart of Austrian far-right politics, was driving his powerful black sedan at more than twice the speed limit before the crash that killed him.
13/10/2008 | The parents of Britt Lapthorne have lived a nightmare of Dantean proportions, hurtling from feverish hope into the chasm of despair.
13/10/2008 | CHEERED on by tens of thousands of raucous supporters and declaring that the Aceh peace accord was a precious gift from Allah, Aceh's popular independence leader Hasan di Tiro returned to his homeland at the weekend after almost 30 years.
13/10/2008 | While she may not be a big hit with voters, Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has made a big splash on the net, becoming the butt of many online parodies and the star o...
12/10/2008 | DEMOCRAT Barack Obama has soared 11 points ahead of Republican rival John McCain, taking a double-digit lead in a Newsweek poll amid deep concerns about the economy.
12/10/2008 | IT WAS a tragedy compounded by distance, obfuscation and devastating error. For two weeks, Britt Lapthorne's family's fears intensified as a nation's fascination grew with the compelling story of one of its young lost in a distant land.
12/10/2008 | AUSTRALIA will stand tall with world leaders today and forge a package of domestic measures to stave off further economic panic before the sharemarkets open tomorrow.