World News
27 Aug 10 | Wikileaks founder Julian Assange no longer faces sex abuse charges in Sweden after a prosecutor decided to investigate only one of two complaints against him.
27 Aug 10 | A Northern California couple who left their newborn daughter in a US casino parking garage while they went gambling are heading to jail.
27 Aug 10 | Twenty people were wounded, including two whose legs had to be amputated, in an explosion early on Thursday morning in a bar in the Mexican Pacific resort of Puerto Vallarta, local police said.
27 Aug 10 | Two Greek fighter jets collided in mid-air on Thursday, the defence ministry said, with one of the pilots apparently managing to eject safely.
27 Aug 10 | A Chilean judge has frozen $US1.8 million ($2 million) in revenue from a mine where 33 workers are trapped and ordered the cash set aside for future compensation to the men, a court official said.
27 Aug 10 | It bears all the hallmarks of a Cold War thriller - an athletic recluse living in a chic London flat, a mystery job working with codes and a violent death.
27 Aug 10 | THE Indonesian government is planning to seek up to $2.5 billion in compensation from the company behind last year's West Atlas oil spill off Australia's coast.
27 Aug 10 | MEXICO CITY: The 72 bodies found in north-east Mexico may be the remains of migrants from other Latin American countries heading to the United States who resisted demands for money.
27 Aug 10 | NEW YORK: City authorities have approved plans for a new skyscraper that will rise to within 11 metres of the height of the nearby Empire State Building, inserting a glassy challenger almost next door to what has been the defining element of Manhattan's skyline.
27 Aug 10 | WASHINGTON: WikiLeaks has released a CIA memo analysing the risks of terrorists operating from the United States.
27 Aug 10 | HAVANA: A program that provided state-subsidised cigarettes to Cuban seniors is headed for the ashtray.
27 Aug 10 | COPIAPO, Chile: Thirty-three trapped miners finally have been told they could be stuck in their collapsed mine for months before being rescued.
27 Aug 10 | WASHINGTON: An experimental therapy that targets the protein that feeds certain types of advanced melanomas has successfully shrunk tumours in up to 80 per cent of test patients, a study said.
27 Aug 10 | PARIS: Nicolas Sarkozy has sounded the starting gun for one of the most crucial periods of his presidency as he tries to put a scandal-plagued summer behind him and prepare for a politically explosive autumn deemed vital for his re-election.
27 Aug 10 | A US warning that the Pakistani Taliban are planning attacks on foreigners helping with flood relief has not deterred international aid organisations which say they are carrying on with their work despite the security alert.
27 Aug 10 | SCOTT RUSH, the young Australian on death row in a Bali prison for drug smuggling, has pleaded with Indonesian authorities to spare him the horror of execution, telling a panel of judges he frequently thought about meeting his demise in a hail of bullets.
27 Aug 10 | THE Director of Military Prosecutions wants to take the unprecedented step of charging several Defence Force commandos with the deaths of five children during a raid in Afghanistan last year.
27 Aug 10 | Speculation is becoming more feverish over the reason for the gruesome death of Gareth Williams, writes Paola Totaro in London.
| Body in bag in posh London flat ...
| Spy's body found in sports bag ...
27 Aug 10 | An HIV-positive pop star who infected a former sex partner with the virus walked free on Thursday after a German court handed her a two-year suspended sentence.
26 Aug 10 | Death row inmate Scott Rush today made an emotional appeal to a Denpasar court to be spared execution, telling a panel of judges he often thinks how long it would take to die if he went before a firing squad.
Favourites
Del.icio.us
Facebook
Digg
StumbleUpon
MySpace
Reddit
Newsvine
LinkedIn
Kwoff
Twitter