World News
13 Apr 09 | THE seductive magic of cover drives and leg spin have won cricket fans around the world and now organisers behind a new initiative close to the Gaza border hope the sport can transcend the boundaries on what is perhaps the world's stickiest wicket.
13 Apr 09 | AFTER days of tense negotiations, the US Navy rescue of an American sea captain came in a matter of seconds on Easter Sunday when a few sniper bullets killed three Somali pirates who authorities feared were about to kill him.
12 Apr 09 | THE embattled Thai Prime Minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, announced a state of emergency in Bangkok and surrounding regions yesterday as anti-Government demonstrators tried to storm the Interior Ministry and police began arresting the protest leaders who shut down the weekend ASEAN summit.
12 Apr 09 | WASHINGTON: Somali elders have begun a fresh attempt to resolve the stand-off between the United States Navy and pirates holding an American captain hostage in a lifeboat.
12 Apr 09 | THE Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has put British overseas tax havens under renewed pressure to end their culture of secrecy within six months or face sanctions.
12 Apr 09 | A CULTURAL shift appears to be under way in the US in favour of same-sex marriages, with two landmark legal decisions this month and eight states set to vote on bills later this year.
12 Apr 09 | A NATIONAL scandal has erupted in Italy just hours after the mass funeral of 205 of the 293 victims of Abruzzo's deadly earthquake, amid allegations that rubble and debris have revealed the use of second-rate materials, including a deadly mix of beach sand in the manufacture of concrete.
12 Apr 09 | TANKS and armoured vehicles rumbled across Bangkok yesterday after the Prime Minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, cracked down on protesters leading the most serious challenge yet to his four-month rule.
12 Apr 09 | PAKISTAN could collapse within months, one of the more influential counter-insurgency voices in Washington says.
12 Apr 09 | THE chief of Fiji's armed forces tightened his grip on the country yesterday, posting censors in newsrooms and roadblocks on the capital's streets as critics accused him of establishing a military dictatorship.
12 Apr 09 | FIJI was plunged deeper into chaos yesterday after military chief Commodore Frank Bainimarama was reappointed Prime Minister just 24 hours after its President scrapped the constitution and assumed executive power.
12 Apr 09 | TORNADOES in the United States have killed at least five people, injured dozens and left hundreds homeless.
10 Apr 09 | FIJI'S President has assumed control and fired the judges who a day earlier had declared the military government illegal, deepening the troubled South Pacific country's political turmoil.
10 Apr 09 | THE Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell, made use of one of the holiest days in the Christian calender yesterday to support the Pope's controversial claim that condoms worsen the spread of HIV and AIDS.
10 Apr 09 | THE world's biggest election is about to begin, but there are fears terrorism could spoil India's festival of democracy.
10 Apr 09 | Renewing acquaintances with a convicted traitor, one finds the salmon is not the only thing fishy about Israel's subjugation of Mordechai Vanunu.
10 Apr 09 | AS THE FBI and US Navy continued delicate negotiations with Somali pirates holding an American captain in a lifeboat drifting in the Indian Ocean, a second pirate boat has reportedly sped to the scene.
10 Apr 09 | WHEN Kim Jong-il last went abroad, in January 2006, he met each of China's top nine leaders. The North Korean strongman's secret eight-day tour was in an "unofficial" capacity and yet he received red carpet treatment, the likes of which no other foreign leader has received in modern times.
10 Apr 09 | A STRONG showing in national elections presents the President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, with an opportunity to cast off his ultra-cautious approach to politics and policy-making and mark out a reformist agenda.
10 Apr 09 | AUSTRALIA is set to send more armed forces to Afghanistan - most likely about 120 - to help protect voters from attack by insurgents when they go to the polls in August.