World News
17 Nov 09 | A DOCTOR who examined prisoners killed and injured during Iran's post-election violence has died in mysterious circumstances, prompting speculation he was been murdered to prevent him speaking out.
16 Nov 09 | ROME: The inhabitants of a small Italian town where 8000 residents share the same surname have won a legal battle to use their nicknames, including ''Fat'', ''Mad'' and ''Peasant'', on official documents.
16 Nov 09 | IRAN has moved to block the last remaining outlet of expression for the country's political opposition with the launch of a special force to police the internet.
16 Nov 09 | FACED with rising rates of depression, post traumatic stress disorder, drug abuse and suicide among its war-weary soldiers, the Pentagon has turned to the founder of positive psychology, Martin Seligman, to train its troops in how to lead happier lives.
16 Nov 09 | TANJUNG PINANG, Indonesia: The 22 Sri Lankan asylum seekers who left the Australian customs vessel Oceanic Viking and are being held in Indonesian detention are being kept separate from other detainees out of fear they will be targeted because they are receiving special treatment.
16 Nov 09 | TENS of thousands of Amazonians are suing Chevron, the American oil company, for poisoning their waterways in what is billed as one of the biggest environmental cases in history.
16 Nov 09 | KABUL: A NATO taskforce is being set up to investigate prominent Afghans suspected of involvement in what one US official has described as a ''criminal Mafia state''.
16 Nov 09 | DUBAI: France's President Nicolas Sarkozy begins his third visit this year to the Gulf today as he seeks to capitalise on disillusionment with America and Britain.
16 Nov 09 | CARACAS: American imperialism remains an issue, but Hugo Chavez has identified a new threat to Venezuela's socialist revolution: obesity.
16 Nov 09 | WASHINGTON: The Obama Administration deployed its most senior spokesmen and women to defend plans to try five terrorism suspects in the federal criminal court in New York, including the alleged mastermind of September 11, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, instead of a military tribunal amid fears that an unsuccessful prosecution could see them walk free on American soil.
16 Nov 09 | BEIJING: Barack Obama championed the cause of open dialogue yesterday in what he had hoped to be the main public event of his first visit to China, but most of mainstream Chinese society may never know.
16 Nov 09 | JERUSALEM: Israel has warned the Palestinians that all previous agreements, including the Oslo accords, will be abolished if they unilaterally declare a sovereign state.
16 Nov 09 | LONDON: A British soldier who faces up to 10 years in jail for speaking out against the war in Afghanistan will go before a military judge this week to discover if he will remain in an army jail while he awaits trial.
15 Nov 09 | NEW YORK: In her best-selling crime novels, Patricia Cornwell's heroine Kay Scarpetta uses her skills in forensic pathology to solve some grisly murders.
15 Nov 09 | WASHINGTON: The Obama Administration is considering relocating some Guantanamo detainees to a mostly vacant prison in the President's home state of Illinois.
15 Nov 09 | LONDON: The British military has become embroiled in yet more controversy over its conduct in the Iraq war. The Ministry of Defence has confirmed it is investigating 33 new allegations by Iraqi civilians of rape and abuse against soldiers.
15 Nov 09 | WASHINGTON: The CIA has funnelled hundreds of millions of dollars to Pakistan's intelligence service since the September 11 attacks, accounting for as much as one-third of the agency's budget, US officials say.
15 Nov 09 | PRISTINA: Kosovo launched a huge security operation before yesterday's first polls since its independence declaration last year, drafting in thousands of extra police, a spokesman said.
15 Nov 09 | ROME: The Italian escort who claims to have spent a night with Silvio Berlusconi is to star in a film about her alleged exploits.
15 Nov 09 | LONDON: TWO German men who murdered an actor in 1990 are suing Wikipedia, claiming its description of their crimes impinges on their privacy.