| Karzai sets up Taliban peace talks council Afghan president Hamid Karzai announced that he had set up a council to pursue peace talks with the Taliban, who have been waging an insurgency in Afghanistan for almost nine years. abc.net.au |
Home brands just as good for you HOUSEHOLDS are paying up to twice the price for brand-name groceries that have little difference to supermarket labels. heraldsun.com.au |
Feds could intervene on Brighton bypass The Federal Infrastructure Minister is not ruling out intervening in a controversial road bypass project near Hobart. abc.net.au |
Emotional Chile rescue a media phenomenon The nail-biting and ultimately joyful rescue of 33 men from deep in a Chilean mine gripped the world's imagination like few events of the past decade with wall-to-wall media coverage drawing comparisons to the September 11 attacks and the 2008 US presidential election. abc.net.au |
First Australians celebrate first Australian saint Mary MacKillop touched the lives of many in Australia, but 101 years after her death she is developing an entire new group of followers in Rome. abc.net.au |