The iconic photograph above is of Charlton Heston clutching a Revolutionary War musket and declaring: As we set out this year to defeat the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to say those words again for everyone within the sound...

“I know perfectly well that the hurricane season has hit our entire country - some 200,000 people in Gonaives haven’t eaten in three days.”

A Rio de Janeiro drug gang used alligators to terrify residents of the slum they ran, and possibly even to make the bodies of murdered rivals “disappear,” police said.

FANS of heavy metal music are usually portrayed as long-haired students playing air guitar in their grubby rooms. Classical music lovers, by contrast, are stereotyped as serious, grey-haired and overwhelmingly middle-class.

SARAH Palin was midway through her electrifying speech to the Republican convention on Wednesday night when she abruptly wandered off script.

There is a new super strain of the superbug, which began in Queensland and has spread throughout Australia - and not just in hospitals. And the difference this time is that it affects young, healthy people.

The trial of Gordon Wood, who is accused of murdering model Caroline Byrne, has heard her body was found in an unusual position at The Gap in eastern Sydney.

AN Australian soldier badly wounded in a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan remains seriously ill and will be transferred to medical facilities in Germany later today, the defence chief says.

PREGNANT women have been advised to avoid using perfumes or scented body creams after research suggested the products can cause unborn boys to suffer infertility or cancer in later life.

A BABY boy born with two heads has been put under police protection because of the curiosity his birth has caused among locals. Around 150,000 people gathered ...