28 Oct 09 | BOGOTA: Venezuela has denied permission for a plane to land to recover the bodies of eight slain Colombians, who were among a dozen kidnapped during a football match in Venezuela.
28 Oct 09 | MIAMI: One of Fidel Castro's younger sisters says in a memoir published this week that she collaborated with the CIA against her brother, starting shortly after the failed US invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in 1961.
28 Oct 09 | LOS ANGELES: In the four weeks since Roman Polanski's arrest in Switzerland at the request of the US, Samantha Geimer's life has not been the same.
28 Oct 09 | WASHINGTON: The White House has taken an important step towards achieving health-care reform after Democratic Senate leaders agreed to a compromise bill that will include the option of a government-owned insurer.
28 Oct 09 | WASHINGTON: America's future strategy in Afghanistan has to put more emphasis on long-term civilian reconstruction rather than on a big troop increase, John Kerry, the influential chairman of the US Senate's foreign relations committee, has warned.
28 Oct 09 | QUETTA: Pakistan yesterday released 11 Iranians detained near the countries' border amid tensions over a suicide attack in Iran that Tehran alleges has links to Pakistani intelligence officials.
28 Oct 09 | Unexplained disappearances remain common, writes Matt Wade.
28 Oct 09 | LONDON: Tony Blair's reluctance to declare his hand in the race for the European Union's top job has frustrated the British Labour Government, which fears he will lose his chance if he does not campaign.
28 Oct 09 | COLOMBO: Surveillance cameras at Colombo Airport paid for by the Australian Government have been linked to a spate of extra-judicial arrests.
28 Oct 09 | AUSTRALIA is preparing to dispatch police across Asia to fight people smugglers and expand intelligence and security ties with Indonesia under a landmark deal that could be unveiled within weeks.
28 Oct 09 | AN INDONESIAN governor has lambasted Kevin Rudd's policy of warehousing asylum seekers in his province, declining to allow the Australian Customs vessel Oceanic Viking to berth and railing against the notion Riau Islands should become a ''dumping ground'' for irregular immigrants.
28 Oct 09 | SOFIA: Gangs of drivers in the Bulgarian capital are defying death – or dying – for bets of up to 10,000 leva ($8,300) by speeding through red lights at 200km/h.
27 Oct 09 | MONTEVIDEO: The former guerilla Jose Mujica came out on top in Uruguay's presidential vote but fell short of the 50 per cent needed to avoid a November run-off against a former president, Luis Lacalle, according to exit polls.
27 Oct 09 | LONDON: More than half of British adults - 54 per cent - believe intelligent design and creationism should be taught alongside evolution in school - a proportion higher than in the US.
27 Oct 09 | NAZRAN: A prominent human rights activist in Ingushetia has been shot dead in at least the third killing of an opposition figure in the volatile North Caucasus region in just over three months.
27 Oct 09 | ISTANBUL: Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has a good grasp of who is a friend and who isn't. The fiery rhetoric of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's radical President, has made him a feared individual in the West. But not to Mr Erdogan.
27 Oct 09 | NEW YORK: Police in San Jose, California, are investigating the apparent beating by officers of a screaming, unarmed man that was filmed on a mobile phone.
27 Oct 09 | WASHINGTON: THE chances of a climate change treaty being signed in Copenhagen are fading fast after it has become clear the US legislature is running out of time to agree on targets and critical issues. Targets for the developed world, financing for the developing world and even the legal language of the agreement remain unresolved.
27 Oct 09 | DADAAB, Kenya: For centuries, Adam Abdi Ibrahim's ancestors herded cattle and goats in an unforgiving landscape in southern Somalia where few others were hearty enough to survive.
27 Oct 09 | BEIRUT: Iran's nuclear ambitions have started a ''race to confrontation'' with Israel, says the French Foreign Minister, Bernard Kouchner.