Macedonian

Miki Trajkovski reporting from Macedonia.

As Australians mourn the deaths of five Diggers in Afghanistan, the charity Legacy Australia is urging the public to remember the families of all dead and injured servicemen and women.

It's been one of the Australian health system's most successful public health campaigns. If caught early enough, cervical cancer can in many cases be prevented or even cured-simply by doing a regular pap smear screening test.

Brane Stefanovski reporting from Macedonia.

The rogue killing of three Australian soldiers in Afghanistan (thursday) has inflamed divisions over Australia's ongoing military deployment in the country.

The newly appointed United Nations envoy to Syria says he has no concrete ideas on how to end the conflict in the country.

Brane Stefanovski reporting from Macedonia.

Vase Kocev with the weekend sports wrap.

Scientists say the blood from a baby's umbilical cord can be used to treat multiple life-threatening diseases.

Welfare organisations and church groups want a new independent commission to set the level of unemployment and student welfare benefits.

The federal government has announced that it will link Australia's proposed carbon trading scheme with that of the European Union- the world's biggest.

New migrants and refugees who settle in Australia often have to acquire new skills or qualifications to help them into employment.

The federal coalitionhas released a discussion paper outlining plans for tougher rules covering foreign investment if it wins the next election.

A Senate inquiry into Australia's banking system has been told that the banking landscape is in the process of being changed forever on the wake of the GFC in 2008-2009.

A new parliament has just been sworn in, in Somalia in the latest move to try to restore order in the east Afrikan country, which has been without a fully0functioning government since 1991.