15 Nov 09 | A SERVICE using mobile phones to teach English in Bangladesh has been overwhelmed by users since its launch on Thursday.
15 Nov 09 | WASHINGTON: Sarah Palin is embarking on what is likely to be the most commercially successful book tour by a politician since Barack Obama launched The Audacity of Hope three years ago. Mr Obama's book tour spawned a presidential campaign. Will Mrs Palin's eventually do the same?
15 Nov 09 | MEXICO CITY: Mexicans were none too pleased to read that their country's most-wanted cocaine kingpin had been ranked by Forbes magazine as one of the most powerful people in the world.
15 Nov 09 | BEIJING: President Barack Obama, scheduled to arrive in China last night, is under pressure to press the Chinese Government to halt a new campaign of "persecution" against the country's flourishing network of unregistered churches.
15 Nov 09 | TANJUNG PINANG, Indonesia: Indonesian authorities opened fire on a boat full of Afghan refugees, wounding two people, after demanding a bribe the Afghans could not afford to pay, one of the refugees says.
15 Nov 09 | SINGAPORE: Kevin Rudd made little progress with the Indonesians over the handling of asylum seekers during the APEC summit in Singapore and was unable to secure a formal meeting with the President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
15 Nov 09 | SINGAPORE: Kevin Rudd says it is legitimate to question the future of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation forum as he pushes his idea for a new regional body that would have a wider agenda than APEC and include all key players such as India.
15 Nov 09 | SINGAPORE: Any last chance of the Copenhagen climate change conference producing a binding target for the world to cut greenhouse gases has evaporated following a lack of collective resolve by the members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit.
15 Nov 09 | JAKARTA: Indonesia is planning to deport Sri Lankan asylum seekers at Merak, including ''Alex'', the English-speaking spokesman for the group that has spent more than a month at the Javanese port refusing to leave their vessel.
14 Nov 09 | JOHN TRAVOLTA wept openly in his first television interview since the death of his only son, Jett.
14 Nov 09 | AN INVESTIGATION has been launched after claims British soldiers tortured Iraqi civilians, Britain's Ministry of Defence has revealed.
14 Nov 09 | BILLING himself as America's first "Pacific president", Barack Obama said the United States did not seek to "contain" China and promised a full US role in charting Asia's future.
14 Nov 09 | A NEW chapter in space exploration has been opened up after NASA confirmed that a mission to "bomb" the moon had found "significant quantities" of frozen water.
14 Nov 09 | PRIME MINISTER Kevin Rudd will press Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for a better set of protocols surrounding people smuggling to avoid a repeat of the Oceanic Viking debacle when the pair meet this weekend.
14 Nov 09 | THE army psychiatrist accused of a shooting rampage at the Fort Hood military base in Texas is permanently paralysed, according to his lawyer.
14 Nov 09 | TRYING the five men accused of the September 11 attacks poses a unique challenge to US legal officials forced to sift through torture-tainted evidence to present before a jury of New Yorkers still scarred by the strikes.
13 Nov 09 | NEW YORK: Mexican business leaders have appealed to the United Nations to deploy peacekeepers just metres from the US border to help stem the rampant violence of the country's drug cartels.
13 Nov 09 | LONDON: A leading academic institute has urged governments to review global oil supplies for themselves because of the ''politicisation'' of the International Energy Agency's figures.
13 Nov 09 | WASHINGTON: Federal prosecutors moved to seize several US assets allegedly controlled by entities linked to the Government of Iran, including a mosque and Islamic school in Maryland, land in Virginia and a Manhattan skyscraper.
13 Nov 09 | MOSCOW: Russia is a country adrift, President Dmitry Medvedev told a vast audience that gathered beneath the gold chandeliers of the Kremlin to hear his state of the nation address.