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With what began as a superficial graze, Tracey from Queensland, who does not wish to use her last name,  could have lost a leg, even her life, to a gruesome, flesh-eating bug. The legacy of the episode is a rough,...

The “Conservatives’ unconventional release shows they’re embarrassed by their failures,” Liberal finance critic John McCallum said early this morning in an email to The Globe. The former bank economist was referring to the release of the government’s fourth stimulus update...

Philippines�A lawyer dared Commission on Elections Chairman Jose Melo on Wednesday to admit that arrangements for the 2010 automated elections were in disarray and manual vote counting may be the most efficient method available to avoid cheating and other irregularities....

He shares his thoughts on some of the major issues affecting Vietnam today. IPS: You said Vietnam is "increasingly seen as a regional player" by countries, both inside and outside the region. Association of South-east Asian Nations] chairmanship next year...

Philippines�The anti-graft court Sandiganbayan will not hold its annual Christmas party this year in sympathy with victims of the typhoons that devastated the metropolis and other provinces. The Sandiganbayan�s executive clerk of court Renato Bocar said: �We followed the example...

Edd Aragon. Apparently, Tony Abbott has woman trouble. Despite the fact he has three daughters, a wife, two sisters and a mother who adore him, the popular perception of the new Opposition Leader is that women can't stand his blokeish,...

It's the Climate Change Conspiracy, or CCC, in which the Queen, the Pope and the Dalai Lama have lately joined that notorious leftie, Malcolm Turnbull. My mum, who was otherwise preternaturally kind, would tell them brutally, as she once told...

Barnaby Joyce leaves the Senate chamber after the ETS vote, left, and Liberal Judith Troeth, top right, crosses the floor to vote with Sue Boyce, bottom right, in support of the bill...As they sat there waiting for the bells to...

It's embarrassing to be Canadian now Our government, quivering with hate, has turned Canada into a corrupt petro-state most of us are ashamed of George Monbiot wrote a real porcupine of a column this week on Comment is Free, excoriating...

THE Catholic Church's chief sexual abuse investigator in Melbourne has for the second time tipped off a priest that he is the target of a covert police inquiry. The action by Peter O'Callaghan, QC, has infuriated police and drawn a...