SALMON, Idaho - In the classic Hollywood western, a cowboy portrayed by John Wayne gallops across the sagebrush steppe and rocky ridges of the American West with only his horse for a companion.

Freemasons New Zealand has provided scholarships totaling $3 million to nearly 850 students at Auckland, AUT, Waikato, Massey, Victoria, Canterbury, Lincoln and Otago universities, over 31 years, making The Freemasons Charity one of the country's largest, privately funded university scholarship programmes.

Scotland is boldly taking on the drinks industry and retailers to tackle its health and social problems. Will the rest of Britain follow?

"Goodbye. We won't miss you," Cherie Blair told the press, on the day of her husband's handover of power to Just Gordon. Touchingly, it appears that she has missed us, so very much that she's spent every spare minute of her new, less scrutinised life, scribbling away at her memoirs, inviting with their surprise-surprise publication another round of the comment and the speculation she had ...

Any organisation is made up of people and it is the people within the setup who determine the characteristics of an organisation...

DISCRIMINATION against women is embedded in the culture of the Arab world, delegates at a conference on women's leadership role heard yesterday.

By EMMA O'NEILL emma.oneill@northernstar.com.au YOU can't get a beer or play the pokies after midnight in Kyogle. Some residents believe this helps the town maintain its 'village' atmosphere and curb alcohol-related violence.

When my father came from Germany as a 19-year old the very first thing he did was to enroll in a class taught at a local public school to learn English. My aunt told me that he became proficient in English in only six weeks. He wanted to be an American and to do so he had to learn the language.

LEYTE?OS wowed guests and locals as it hosted the opening of last year's National Heritage Month.

CHICAGO, May 13, 2008--The 2008 National Conference for the Minority Lawyer set for June 26-27 in San Jose, Calif., will offer skills training, legal substance and rare opportunities for minority lawyers in business, litigation and government to tackle sensitive issues in a group professional setting.