18 Nov 09 | LOS ANGELES: An Australian faces five years in a US prison after admitting his role in a kickback scheme in Afghanistan.
18 Nov 09 | LONDON: Britain's aspirations to become a spacefaring nation inched a little closer as thousands of microscopic worms boarded the Atlantis space shuttle at Cape Canaveral and blasted off for a mission to the international space station.
18 Nov 09 | LONDON: British soldiers should buy off potential Taliban recruits in Afghanistan with cash, a new army field manual says.
18 Nov 09 | PARIS: For Nicolas Sarkozy, a 1.65-metre head of state with a statuesque wife, a penchant for Cuban heels and an arch-enemy who refers to him as ''the dwarf'', size most certainly matters.
18 Nov 09 | ROME: When the hostess agency put out the call for attractive, well-dressed women, under the age of 35 and over 1.7 metres tall, it was inundated with responses from hundreds of Roman women.
18 Nov 09 | BEIJING: With the US President in town, the Chinese Government seems to have adopted a two-track policy towards Barack Obama memorabilia.
18 Nov 09 | BEIJING: The presidents of the world's two most powerful countries have promised to co-operate on pressing challenges, including climate change and Iran's nuclear program.
18 Nov 09 | WASHINGTON: The number of Americans who lack dependable access to adequate food shot up last year to 49 million, the largest number since the Government has been keeping track.
18 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.
17 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.
17 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.
17 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.
17 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.
17 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.
17 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''.
17 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.
17 Nov 09 | CARACAS: American imperialism remains an issue, but Hugo Chavez has identified a new threat to Venezuela's socialist revolution: obesity.
17 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.
17 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.
17 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.