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The discovery of a new particle that could be the Higgs boson, key to understanding the fundamental structure of matter, offers a window into the unknown that may revolutionize understanding of the universe, according to American physicists. &...

Australian doctors are warning people to protect themselves against the potentially deadly flu virus which has already killed seven people and sent dozens to hospital. The predominant strain this year is H3N2 which is associated with increased mor...

Tensions between the two parties are growing because of a concerted campaign by Labor to differentiate itself from the Greens with a growing number of senior ALP figures criticising them for being a protest party.  

Venezuela will see official opposition media against each other in the coming months. This week began the campaign for the presidential elections on October 7.

Temperatures in some parts of the city dropped to -8C, while Chile has some 12,000 homeless people, about half of them in the capital, Santiago. People sleeping on the streets are being encouraged to seek shelter.

119 years ago a group of Australians left everything they had at home to follow their dreams.  

The apparent public execution of a woman by a man said to be a member of the Taliban has attracted widespread condemnation in Afghanistan and around the world.   A video obtained by Reuters news agency shows the man shooting dead ...

Water polo is officially the oldest Olympic team sport, contested at every modern Olympic Games since Paris 1900. The gold medal winning performance by the Australian women (the stingers) at their home Olympics in 2000 is the overwhelming highlig...

A parliamentary committee has been told the Australian Electoral Act is so poorly drafted it leaves campaign funding and expenditure disclosures open to fraudulent reporting.

In Guatemala, two million documents related to human rights abuses, are not publicly available any more after the government closed the office that declassified them.

The Peruvian national government and the regional authorities of Cajamarca agreed to begin a new stage of talks to end the conflict of Conga mining project.    

This week an Australian woman was required by Mexican police after being linked with the explosions last Tuesday night in Tlalpan and Coyoacán in Mexico.

Melinda Taylor, the Australian lawyer of the International Criminal Court, spoke for the first time after being released by the Libyan regime. Taylor is responsible for the legal defense of the son of Muammar Gaddafi, Saif Al Islam.

With critics lamenting the state of the political debate on the issue, questions are being raised about whether migrant and refugee communities should be doing more to make their voices heard.  

New retail spending figures have painted a picture of modest growth across the Australian economy but with inflation allied to uncertainty over how the carbon tax might affect business, shop owners aren't out of trouble just yet.