The Swiss Federal Commission for HIV/AIDS raised eyebrows earlier this year when it effectively said that HIV-infected people could safely not use condoms. But now a computer analysis of rates of HIV transmission from individuals with different levels...

This is a great collection of video and photography in a flash multimedia montage. Profiles, journalistic views on covering the story in Iraq, an interactive timeline, maps and more resources related to the Iraq war. All these images are the...

Sean Hay, who was looking forward to becoming a father for the second time, was knifed repeatedly by a gang of three men who fled the scene, leaving him dying in front of his family.

Zimbabwe’s inflation rate is currently said to be running at somewhere between 2.2 million and 3 million per cent. The country has just printed a 100 billion dollar note with which (at the time of writing) one can hope to buy two loaves of...

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released a social trends report that shows there was little improvement in housing conditions in remote Indigenous communities between 2001 and 2006.

I once met a woman with an unearthly beautiful smile. She did not understand this poem when I gave it to her. Perhaps you will. Poetry is so personal, so intimate, that expecting other people to see or feel the rationale and emotive momentum of...

Australian television reporter Peter Lloyd, charged with drug trafficking in Singapore, has been moved from a local hospital to a prison medical facility, staff at the institutions said.

Some sketches of people living their lives late at night and under the self-inflicted weary eye of some indefinable inner alienation. Hollow people in a hollow world. I wrote this a few years ago a little while after a friend had died. An...

Scotsman journalist Emma Cowing almost lost her life in the searing heat of Afghanistan. Her ordeal exposed an unwritten danger facing our troops. Here she tells her story

Mexican troops seized a small submarine smuggling drugs in the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, the military said. The green-colored submarine, carrying what was believed to be cocaine, was about 32 feet long and appeared to be a makeshift or modified...