BY definition in a secular society, few things are universally recognised as sacred. Remembrance of the war dead is one of them, however, which is why every city and nearly every town has a war memorial that is held in special reverence, as are the ceremonies conducted at them. In..read more

AMERICA'S first openly gay Episcopalian bishop, Gene Robinson, has been asked to give the invocation at a welcoming concert at the Lincoln Memorial amid controversy in the gay community over President-elect Barack Obama's pick for the blessing at the inauguration ceremony.

THE Scott Memorial Hospital in Scone was struck by lightning as rain and wild wind hit the Hunter Valley yesterday.

A SPECIAL Christmas Memorial Service will be held at Hansen and Cole Funerals chapel, Kembla Grange, at 6pm on December 5.

NEWCASTLE: 11am, Civic Park war memorial, Newcastle RSL sub-branch.