World News
10 Nov 09 | Somali pirates have attacked on oil tanker farther out at sea than any previous assault, suggesting that pirate capabilities are growing as they increase activity off East Africa.
10 Nov 09 | Soldiers and townspeople dug through rock and debris on Monday in hopes of finding dozens of people missing in a mudslide that swept down on a town, part of a wave of floods and landslides that killed at least 124 people in El Salvador.
10 Nov 09 | US authorities are investigating whether the Cleveland man who owned the home where several bodies were found is connected to any killings in places he lived while in the military, including Japan.
10 Nov 09 | Chancellor Angela Merkel and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev crossed a former fortified border on Monday to cheers of "Gorby! Gorby!" as a throng of grateful Germans recalled the night 20 years ago that the Berlin Wall gave way to their desire for freedom and unity.
09 Nov 09 | BERLIN: The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has urged Europeans and Americans to see the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall as a call to joint action against new global threats.
09 Nov 09 | FOR the relatively novel threat of swine flu, South Koreans seem to have mustered some level of alarm. A noticeable number of the citizens of Seoul are wearing surgical face masks on trains, planes and in lifts.
09 Nov 09 | BANGALORE: THE Dalai Lama arrived in the Indian border town of Tawang, where he first crossed into exile 50 years ago, straining relations with China over the visit.
09 Nov 09 | WASHINGTON: Relatives of eight victims of an Air France flight that crashed en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris have filed lawsuits seeking damages in two US states.
09 Nov 09 | LONDON: Britain is set to hand an expanded role to the nuclear industry and suggest more sites for new reactors as it unveils controversial guidelines for fast-tracking big energy projects through the planning process.
09 Nov 09 | MOSCOW: Russia's Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, says he feels nostalgia for the former East Germany, recalling with fondness his five years as a KGB agent in Dresden.
09 Nov 09 | WASHINGTON: The US President, Barack Obama, says Iraq has achieved a breakthrough with an election law that will help keep the US on schedule to withdraw troops next year.
09 Nov 09 | BOGOTA: Colombia will seek help from the United Nations after neighbouring Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez told his military to prepare ''for war''.
09 Nov 09 | The stony looks on the faces of the soldiers at Fort Hood, and on those of men and women in the surrounding communities, tell it all - they are struggling to deal with a mix of emotions from grief, to betrayal, anger and confusion stemming from this massacre at the hands of a US serviceman born in America.
09 Nov 09 | FEDERAL investigators are examining possible links between the Fort Hood shooter, Major Nidal Hasan, and an American-born imam who US authorities say has become a supporter and leading promoter of al-Qaeda since leaving a northern Virginia mosque.
09 Nov 09 | JERUSALEM: The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was under attack last night over his handling of Israel's relationship with its most important ally, the United States.
08 Nov 09 | ST ANDREWS: The G20 talked big but delivered little on climate finance, campaigners said, as the clock ticks down to the summit in Copenhagen next month.
08 Nov 09 | KABUL: The Afghan Government has lashed out at foreign critics, accusing a top United Nations official and others of interfering in internal affairs.
08 Nov 09 | KABUL: Seven Afghan security personnel have been killed in a bungled NATO air strike in the country's remote north-west, the Defence Ministry said, signalling further trouble for a fraying Western military effort.
08 Nov 09 | SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt: The Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao, pledged $US10 billion ($11 billion) in loans as a two-day Forum on China-Africa Co-operation opened in Egypt yesterday.
08 Nov 09 | NEW DELHI: THERE is a country where leaky boats full of Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers are turning up without triggering a political crisis.