24 Aug 09 | A bomb in usually peaceful northern Afghanistan killed six police, two days after a coordinated militant ambush disrupted voting.
24 Aug 09 | A MILITANT leader and 1000 fighters have surrendered to the Nigerian Government, turning in their weapons in the biggest handover since an amnesty in the oil-rich Niger Delta began two weeks ago.
24 Aug 09 | TWENTY-FIVE young East Timorese say their inside knowledge of mist-shrouded mountains will give them an advantage in one of the world's most gruelling bike challenges.
24 Aug 09 | BERLIN: The CIA hired the private US security firm Blackwater to transfer detainees from Guantanamo Bay to secret prisons in Asia for interrogation, the German weekly Der Spiegel says.
24 Aug 09 | WHEN Yale University Press publishes The Cartoons that Shook the World by the Brandeis University political scientist Jytte Klausen in November, the book will be missing a key element: the cartoons that shook the world.
24 Aug 09 | KABUL: The Afghan President's leading challenger accused him of using the Afghan state to rig this week's election and detailed allegations of cheating by government officials.
24 Aug 09 | A CLANDESTINE network that helps North Koreans escape through China has gone deeper underground because of fears over what authorities in both countries may have learnt from the capture of two US journalists, freed by Pyongyang this month, says a missionary involved in aid work in north-east China.
24 Aug 09 | AUSTRALIAN lifesavers have come to the rescue in a poverty-stricken land plagued by the world's highest rate of child drowning.
24 Aug 09 | DEVELOPERS have lodged an application to build a nightclub and restaurant complex on the site of the Sari Club in Bali where scores of Australians lost their lives in the terrorist atrocity of 2002.
24 Aug 09 | Annie Leibovitz is as famous as the people she photographs but now the genius behind the lens is close to financial ruin a victim, some say, of her own relentless artistic ambition.
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24 Aug 09 | President Barack Obama has challenged critics of his push to overhaul America's health-care system to stop the ''outrageous myths'' fanning an acrimonious, nationwide debate on the policy.
24 Aug 09 | Governments bracing for a second, possibly more lethal, wave of swine flu are grappling with the same dilemma: with not enough vaccine to go around, who will be jabbed first?
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24 Aug 09 | A report for Britain's Ministry of Defence leaked yesterday said the department's procurement program was hugely inefficient and harming Britain's ability to fight enemies like the Taliban.
24 Aug 09 | The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher today after a strong lead from United States markets and anticipation of more encouraging results from companies reporting their financi
24 Aug 09 | Going off to war has always meant risking your life, but a wave of robotic weaponry may be changing that centuries-old truth.
The ''pilots'' who fly US armed drones over Afghanistan, I
21 Aug 09 | Libyan jailed for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing granted release on compassionate grounds despite fierce US opposition.
21 Aug 09 | President Dmitry Medvedev has warned that Russia's Caucasus region is dangerously unstable and says terrorists there must be ''liquidated without emotion''.
''The battle against terrori
21 Aug 09 | A bicycle bomb exploded near a restaurant in Baghdad yesterday killing two people in a deadly reminder of Iraq's security problems as the death toll rose to at least 101 from a string of blas
21 Aug 09 | The terminally ill Libyan convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing flew home from Scotland to a joyous reception Thursday after being freed on compassionate grounds despite US anger over the decision.
Hundreds of young people waving Libyan and Scottish flags greeted the aircraft carrying Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi as it landed in Tripoli amid heavy security.
21 Aug 09 | Most Americans say the war in Afghanistan is not worth fighting and oppose sending more US troops to fight Islamist insurgents, a poll shows.
Survey results issued yesterday showed US