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Australian novelist Christos Tsiolkas reflects on how alongside Australia's prosperity and increased affluence lie a range of simmering social issues.
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50 years ago, Ruby Bridges made history as the first African-American to attend an all-white elementary school in the American South.
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John Hantz is soft spoken, meticulously polite and ferociously ambitious. For his latest plan, he has to be. This multi millionaire, financial tycoon wants to turn destitute Detroit into the world's largest urban farm.
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The nomination of Elena Kagan to replace the retiring John Paul Stevens on the US Supreme Court means, if she is confirmed, all of the justices will have been at either Harvard or Yale law schools. But why should two educational bodies provide all of the
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Ken Loach is in fighting form in Cannes, as he premieres his revenge drama Route Irish
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Some 90% of gay men in the Asia-Pacific region lose access to HIV/Aids help because of discriminatory laws, a UN-backed report says.
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New rules to allow planes to fly at higher ash densities for a limited time will be introduced at midday on Tuesday, the CAA says.
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The fantastical story of JM Barrie's first celebrity cricket team
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Linda Pressly journeys from Lima to the Peruvian Amazon to ask if a controversial economic theory can improve the lives of slum-dwellers and indigenous Amazonian Indians alike.
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Hugh Schofield reports on a sex scandal that has been casting a shadow over several of France's top footballers.
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A Taipei-Shanghai flight makes an emergency landing after a passenger jokingly claims he has a bomb on board, officials say.
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A court convicts 26 men accused of working for Hezbollah of planning terrorist attacks on ships and tourist sites.
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A report blames pilot error for the 2007 crash of a Kenya Airways flight in Cameroon which killed all 114 passengers.
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Linda Pressly journeys from Lima to the Peruvian Amazon to ask if a controversial economic theory can improve the lives of slum-dwellers and indigenous Amazonian Indians alike.
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Bangladeshi film industry representatives say they have forced the government to retain a ban on cinemas showing Indian films.
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The oil rig that caught fire and sank off the Louisiana coast does not appear to be leaking oil, the US Coast Guard says.
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Celebrations take place in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, to mark 200 years since the start of the process that led to independence from Spain.
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Uruguay should have told Argentina about plans for a pulp mill on their shared river but the plant can continue working, the world court rules.
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US President Barack Obama says it should be possible to send astronauts to orbit the planet Mars by the mid-2030s.
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Most flights in the UK will remain grounded until early Saturday as ash from a volcano in Iceland continues to drift across Europe.
