| Bullets fired into house, injuring woman WOMAN suffers head wounds after shots were fired into the bedroom of home overnight. heraldsun.com.au |
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 |
Top Obama national security aide resigns President Barack Obama's national security advisor James Jones is retiring and will be replaced by hard-charging deputy Tom Donilon, in a new shake-up of key White House staff portfolios. abc.net.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 |