06 Nov 09 | An armed gunman has killed 12 people and wounded up to 30 others during shootings at Fort Hood, the world's largest US military base, authorities there say.
06 Nov 09 | The gunman who killed 12 people at a Texas military base is still alive and in hospital after undergoing surgery for his wounds, the base commander says.
06 Nov 09 | AL GORE, climate change campaigner and former US vice-president, wants to build "a green cathedral". By that he means he wants leaders and their communities to do what the communities in the Middle Ages did when they worked for generations to erect the great cathedrals of Europe.
06 Nov 09 | Twelve people have died and 31 have been wounded after US soldiers opened fire at the Fort Hood military base in Texas, US authorities say.
06 Nov 09 | John "Junior" Gotti's mother unleashed a profanity-laced tirade after a judge dismissed two anonymous jurors at her son's racketeering trial, saying he was being cheated of a fair trial as his father had been.
06 Nov 09 | Western Europe's tallest peak, the snow-capped Alpine giant Mont Blanc, has shrunk by 45cm in two years, experts say following an official survey.
06 Nov 09 | An Oklahoma couple driving home from church hit an animal - a really big one.
06 Nov 09 | Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said in a televised speech on Thursday that he will not seek re-election in Palestinian elections to be held in January.
06 Nov 09 | The United Nations says at least 50 peacekeepers have been punished by national authorities over the last three years for committing sexual abuses on UN missions.
06 Nov 09 | COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's top military officer has returned home after he was allowed to complete a US visit without being questioned over alleged war crimes against Tamil civilians.
06 Nov 09 | BANGKOK: The US has stepped up pressure on the Burmese junta to reform, with a senior diplomat saying the jailed democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, must be allowed to take part in next year's elections for the world to accept the result.
06 Nov 09 | PHNOM PENH: Cambodia has appointed the ousted prime minister of neighbouring Thailand, Thaksin Shinawatra, as a senior government adviser, a move likely to hasten the deterioration in relations between the two nations.
06 Nov 09 | NEW YORK: John ''Junior'' Gotti's mother unleashed a profanity-laced tirade after a judge dismissed two jurors at her son's racketeering trial, saying he was being cheated of a fair trial as his father had been.
06 Nov 09 | WASHINGTON: Australia has made it clear to the US it is not in a position to increase troop or training commitments in Afghanistan if the Obama Administration decides to add to its troop levels in response to General Stanley McChrystal's report, the Defence Minister, John Faulkner, said in Washington.
06 Nov 09 | MEXICO CITY: Three doctors and a nurse have been arrested for allegedly selling newborns after telling their mothers they had died.
06 Nov 09 | KARACHI: Pakistan's fashion week started with an opulent opening ceremony, against a backdrop of militant violence and security fears that delayed the event and kept away foreign glitterati.
06 Nov 09 | JERUSALEM: The radical Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah has vehemently denied any link to an arms cargo seized by Israeli commandos off Cyprus en route to Syria.
06 Nov 09 | KABUL: Deteriorating security for foreigners - military and civilian - in Afghanistan was underscored yesterday by a United Nations decision to evacuate almost half its staff from the country and a call from London for an investigation of Taliban infiltration of the Afghan security services after a local policeman killed five British troops.
06 Nov 09 | AUSTRALIANS might treat satirist John Clarke, actor Russell Crowe and South Australian Premier Mike Rann as their own, but New Zealand would like them back.
06 Nov 09 | JAKARTA: Indonesia's top detective quit yesterday after wiretap phone recordings implicated him in an alleged plot to falsely imprison anti-graft investigators in a scandal that has appalled the nation.