USA Update

With Ellenbrook station welcoming its long-awaited first passengers this week, it raises an interesting question: have we been bold enough in our vision for Perth’s newest transit hub?

It is becoming harder – if not impossible – for many people to save for a deposit to purchase a home, and then service the subsequent home loan.

Israel's government has approved a plan to expand Israeli settlements on the Golan Heights it occupies, citing "the new front facing Syria".

Goalkeeper Patrick Drewes has endured nausea and headaches after being struck by a cigarette lighter thrown from the crowd in Bochum's Bundesliga game at Union.

Two Russian oil tankers have been damaged following a storm in the Kerch Strait, spilling oil and sparking an emergency rescue operation, Russian officials say.

December 15, 2009, is the worst yet most important day of my life. I lost my Grandma that day. She was everything to me. The person who I felt understood me the most — gone when I was 19. There’s a hole there that can never be filled. I’ve probably buried myself in more video games than […]

An ice storm struck Iowa and eastern Nebraska over the weekend, shutting down a major interstate highway as cars and trucks slid off of the road. At least one person was killed in a crash because of the icy roads in Nebraska. The National Weather Service in Des Moines issued a dense fog advisory Saturday […]

Robert Fernandez, one of the last known American survivors of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, died on Wednesday in Lodi, Calif., just days after the 83rd anniversary of the attack. He was 100. His nephew Joe Guthrie confirmed the death. “I promised him 10 years ago that he could die in my home, and that’s […]

Good morning. It’s list-making season. I’m cataloging gifts I want to give family and friends, tabulating all the work that needs to be done on the skiff before the fish return in the spring, putting basement chores on the docket, indexing every book I’ve read this year. I’m looking forward, looking back, taking stock and […]

British film director Asif Kapadia was, for a decade, on a “watch list” that saw him stopped and interviewed every time he tried to enter the US. The Oscar-winning director of the documentary Amy told this weekend’s Guardian newspaper his experience began after he travelled back from New York in the early 2000s, and a […]