27 Oct 09 | AUSTRALIA is preparing to dispatch police across Asia to fight people smugglers and expand intelligence and security ties with Indonesia under a landmark deal that could be unveiled within weeks.
27 Oct 09 | AN INDONESIAN governor has lambasted Kevin Rudd's policy of warehousing asylum seekers in his province, declining to allow the Australian Customs vessel Oceanic Viking to berth and railing against the notion Riau Islands should become a ''dumping ground'' for irregular immigrants.
27 Oct 09 | SOFIA: Gangs of drivers in the Bulgarian capital are defying death – or dying – for bets of up to 10,000 leva ($8,300) by speeding through red lights at 200km/h.
27 Oct 09 | MONTEVIDEO: The former guerilla Jose Mujica came out on top in Uruguay's presidential vote but fell short of the 50 per cent needed to avoid a November run-off against a former president, Luis Lacalle, according to exit polls.
26 Oct 09 | LONDON: More than half of British adults - 54 per cent - believe intelligent design and creationism should be taught alongside evolution in school - a proportion higher than in the US.
26 Oct 09 | NAZRAN: A prominent human rights activist in Ingushetia has been shot dead in at least the third killing of an opposition figure in the volatile North Caucasus region in just over three months.
26 Oct 09 | ISTANBUL: Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has a good grasp of who is a friend and who isn't. The fiery rhetoric of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's radical President, has made him a feared individual in the West. But not to Mr Erdogan.
26 Oct 09 | NEW YORK: Police in San Jose, California, are investigating the apparent beating by officers of a screaming, unarmed man that was filmed on a mobile phone.
26 Oct 09 | WASHINGTON: THE chances of a climate change treaty being signed in Copenhagen are fading fast after it has become clear the US legislature is running out of time to agree on targets and critical issues. Targets for the developed world, financing for the developing world and even the legal language of the agreement remain unresolved.
26 Oct 09 | DADAAB, Kenya: For centuries, Adam Abdi Ibrahim's ancestors herded cattle and goats in an unforgiving landscape in southern Somalia where few others were hearty enough to survive.
26 Oct 09 | BEIRUT: Iran's nuclear ambitions have started a ''race to confrontation'' with Israel, says the French Foreign Minister, Bernard Kouchner.
26 Oct 09 | JERUSALEM: After two weeks of calm, violence returned to Jerusalem's Old City on Sunday as police stormed the area known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif to quell Palestinian protesters.
26 Oct 09 | LONDON: A conservative group of Anglican bishops is seeking change in their own churches rather than suggesting the faithful turn to Rome.
26 Oct 09 | BAGHDAD: Iraqi security forces were on high alert yesterday, a day after suicide bombs in a truck and a car blamed on al-Qaeda killed 99 people and injured more than 700 at government offices in Baghdad.
26 Oct 09 | THE Federal Government urged Indonesian authorities yesterday to treat asylum seekers humanely as 78 Sri Lankans aboard an Australian Customs vessel prepared to disembark after more than a week at sea.
26 Oct 09 | KABUL: Protesters burnt Barack Obama in effigy in the Afghan capital on Sunday, acting on rumours that US troops had desecrated a copy of the Koran.
26 Oct 09 | WASHINGTON: The Pentagon's top military officer has conducted secret war games to evaluate the two primary military options that have been put forward by the Pentagon and are being weighed by the Obama Administration as part of a broad-based review of the faltering Afghanistan war, senior military officials said.
26 Oct 09 | ANOTHER of the Australian Defence Force's life-saving bomb detection dogs has been killed in Afghanistan.
26 Oct 09 | Two explosions ripped apart government buildings in Baghdad yesterday for the second time in two months, killing at least 132, wounding 520 and demonstrating again that insurgents are able to mount large-scale attacks in the heart of the Iraqi capital.
25 Oct 09 | GUERZAH, Egypt: At least 25 people were killed when two passenger trains crashed, and there are fears the toll may rise.