World News
12 Aug 09 | LONDON: A British security guard arrested in Iraq over the shooting death of two of his colleagues, including an Australian, has said a drunken brawl led to the incident, a British newspaper says.
12 Aug 09 | LOS ANGELES: A massive cyber attack that security experts said was aimed at silencing a single blogger in the country of Georgia has instead made him a global celebrity.
12 Aug 09 | BANGKOK: A Thai court yesterday rejected a request by the United States for the extradition of Viktor Bout, an alleged Russian arms dealer dubbed the Merchant of Death.
12 Aug 09 | A MUDSLIDE that engulfed a mountain village in southern Taiwan was feared to have buried 100 people alive, officials said yesterday as the confirmed death toll from Typhoon Morakot reached 41.
12 Aug 09 | INDONESIAN authorities are expected to reveal this morning that the man gunned down in a counter-terrorism raid over the weekend was Ibrahim, a florist who worked at the Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriott hotels.
12 Aug 09 | RADIO AUSTRALIA will again begin broadcasting to Burma in what the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, called a ''gesture of solidarity'' with the pro democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, in the wake of her conviction yesterday.
12 Aug 09 | DETERMINED to keep the Burmese democracy icon in detention until after multi-party elections scheduled for next year, the military junta has sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to house arrest for 18 months.
12 Aug 09 | Sunland Group says two developers misled it about their friendship and the rights to a block of land, write Rick Feneley and Royce Millar.
12 Aug 09 | THE number of Australians flocking to the Kokoda Track has doubled each year over the past decade.
12 Aug 09 | The Herald's Hamish McDonald took the same flight from Port Moresby last month. He recalls the excitement and apprehension among trekkers.
12 Aug 09 | AN EXTENSIVE search was to resume at daybreak today for an aircraft missing in mountainous country along the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea with 13 people, including nine Australian tourists, aboard.
11 Aug 09 | A charter plane with eight Australians heading to the Kokoda Track is missing, having failed to reach its destination in Papua New Guinea.
The Twin Otter, twin-engine, plane left the capital Port Moresby this morning at 9.30am (local time) but had failed to return this afternoon.
11 Aug 09 | KINSHASA: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday showed a rare flash of public anger on a trip to Africa as a student asked for her husband's views, putting him in his place by saying she is the United States' top diplomat.
'My husband is not the secretary of state, I am', Hillary tells student.
11 Aug 09 | Olivia Newton-John's missing ex-lover Pat McDermott is believed to have come out of hiding and urged investigators to leave him alone.
Britain's News of the World newspaper has reported how McDermott, who was presumed to have drowned on a fishing trip off the coast of Los Angeles in 2005, had a friend fax a letter on his behalf begging investigators to stop their search for him.
11 Aug 09 | A tsunami alert has been cancelled two hours after a massive earthquake off mainland South-east Asia in the Indian Ocean this morning, the US Government’s Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre says.
11 Aug 09 | At least 34 people died and scores more were reported missing on Monday after typhoons battered East Asia, as parts of the region experienced their worst weather in half a century.
11 Aug 09 | A FAMILIAR question is back on the lips of Washington's movers and shakers - what is next for Bill Clinton?
11 Aug 09 | THE North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, appeared to be ''in full control of his government'' when an American mission met with him last week to free two imprisoned US journalists, said the White House National Security Adviser, Jim Jones.
11 Aug 09 | WASHINGTON: The US military commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, says the Taliban have gained the upper hand in the country, forcing the US to change its strategy by increasing the number of troops in heavily populated areas.
11 Aug 09 | THE withdrawal of the English badminton team from the world championships in the Indian city of Hyderabad because of security fears has raised fresh concerns about how athletes and administrators will react when the Commonwealth Games are held in New Delhi next year.