Police from around the world say they have broken up the largest internet paedophile ring yet discovered. Rob Wainwright, head of Europol, the European Police Agency, said the abuse network had 70,000 members and links to 30 countries.

The operation has identified 670 suspects and 230 abused children.

For the last 10 years sexual orientation has been included in a list of discriminatory grounds for executions – gay rights activists say the vote to remove that listing is "dangerous and disturbing."

The idea that Australia was born as a nation on Gallipoli's shores is now deeply cemented in our history books and national psyche.

Roland Schoeman said on Saturday that he was "flabbergasted" and "utterly disappointed" that a section of the Australian media had attempted to paint him as a racist by "twisting" a statement he had made about the crowd in the Dr SP Mukherjee Aquatic Complex at the Commonwealth Games.

Schoeman was exonerated by Sascoc management yesterday of any "malice or racist reference" after calling a spectator who had shouted out during the start of the 50m freestyle semi-final on Friday night a "monkey". The spectator's shout had distracted him and Englishman Simon Burnett, with both falling into the pool, risking a false start and possible disqualification.

September 21, 2010 on SBS Insight (Australia): "The French Senate has voted to ban the burqa in public places. Similar laws are being considered in Belgium, Spain and Italy.

Commonwealth Fund Reports U.S. Health Care Last Among 7 Nations Studied

A WOMAN has told how she saw a man lying bleeding in a police cell after he was arrested for allegedly being drunk. The homicide squad is investigating after the man died in hospital the morning after his arrest.