World News
21 Nov 09 | SEOUL: He is a man caught between two countries, a political protester who has stubbornly steeled himself inside the sterile purgatory of Tokyo's Narita International Airport.
21 Nov 09 | LIMA: A gang in the remote Peruvian jungle has been killing people for their fat, draining it from their corpses and offering it on the blackmarket for use in cosmetics, police say.
21 Nov 09 | Villagers may be scapegoats for Indonesia's military activities, writes Jonathan Pearlman.
21 Nov 09 | The world expected Barack Obama to win from Hu Jintao concessions the Chinese President wasn't in a position to deliver, writes John Garnaut.
21 Nov 09 | On the front line of climate change, the people of the Pacific Islands are desperately looking for higher ground. Adam Morton reports from Kiribati.
21 Nov 09 | Human rights are as vital to beating poverty as is economic advancement, says the leader of Amnesty. Debra Jopson caught up with her.
21 Nov 09 | ONCE the biggest name in Hollywood, Tom Cruise has joined Will Ferrell, Ewan McGregor and Eddie Murphy on the list of Hollywood's most ''overpaid'' stars.
21 Nov 09 | Changing Scientology's tax-exempt status could involve a legal stoush, writes Malcolm Knox.
21 Nov 09 | LONDON: Before she had turned 10, Anna had started worrying that there was something physically wrong with her.
21 Nov 09 | CAIRO: One of the Arab world's biggest pop stars has provoked outrage after releasing a song that refers to black Egyptians as monkeys.
21 Nov 09 | NEW DELHI: Each morning about 800,000 Delhi women leave their own small homes to dust, clean, cook and wash in bigger ones.
21 Nov 09 | JAKARTA: It is an allegation that has spread like wildfire through Jakarta's elites and is now being openly canvassed in the press.
21 Nov 09 | BRUSSELS: Herman Van Rompuy won the bad-tempered contest for the presidency of the European Council by making friends and influencing people.
21 Nov 09 | LONDON: They feared it might take days but in the end it was a snap, unanimous, decision when Europe's 27 leaders dumped charisma for consensus and elected the low-key Belgian Prime Minister, Herman Van Rompuy, as the first president of the European Union.
21 Nov 09 | JERUSALEM: Palestinian aspirations to establish a capital in East Jerusalem are unwavering, despite this week's announcement by Israel that it is expanding Jewish neighbourhoods in the eastern half of the city.
21 Nov 09 | NEW YORK: The US Government faces compensation claims worth billions of dollars from victims of Hurricane Katrina after a federal judge found that negligence on the part of the army's corps of engineers was directly responsible for some of the most extreme flooding.
21 Nov 09 | GOOGLE'S new operating system, which is designed to bypass computer hard drives and work via the internet, got its first public preview on Thursday.
21 Nov 09 | MORE than a year after an explosion shut it down, the world's biggest and most expensive scientific experiment is set to restart today.
20 Nov 09 | A SECRET attempt to lose weight through liposuction will keep Pakistani paceman Shoaib Akhtar out of the tour to Australia this summer.
20 Nov 09 | Oprah Winfrey's production company says Winfrey will announce on Friday that her talk show will end in 2011 after its 25th season on the air.
Chicago-based Harpo Productions Inc said on Thursday night that the talk show host will give more details live on the The Oprah Winfrey Show to be broadcast on Friday.