FORMER national servicemen have called for a modern version of conscription to combat youth street violence.

PRIVATE Kaine Wunta is the new face of the Australian Defence Force in the remote far north.

A salary and work experience are looking good to recruits, who will take their chances despite the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, writes Anne Davies from Baltimore.

WASHINGTON: The state of the US job market has prompted Myeshia Townsend, 23, from Temple Hills, Maryland, to make a decision most of us would quail at. After a year of fruitless search for work, the interior design graduate has decided to join the US Army.

This activist has been worrying about the world's future since he was 10. Paul Gilding