World News
13 Oct 09 | The Bulgarian man who found Boyzone singer Stephen Gately's "white" and "cold" body says he has been unable to sleep since the discovery.
13 Oct 09 | Impatient and discouraged by what they regard as a certain detachment by US President Barack Obama on their issues, gay rights supporters took to the streets of Washington DC in the largest gay rights demonstration here in nearly a decade.
13 Oct 09 | A gunman wounded during a brazen terrorist attack on Pakistan's military headquarters was also a ringleader in the assault on the Sri Lankan cricket team earlier this year and may have been involved in an assassination attempt on former president Pervez Musharraf, police say.
13 Oct 09 | Pathologists are due to begin a post mortem on the body of toddler Aisling Symes as support poured in from around New Zealand for her grieving parents.
13 Oct 09 | Pathologists are due to begin a post mortem on the body of toddler Aisling Symes as support poured in from around New Zealand for her grieving parents.
13 Oct 09 | The so-called "Russian Obama" has failed in his bid to become Russia's first elected official of African descent, but says he is satisfied with his third place finish.
13 Oct 09 | US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has pledged investment and political support for Northern Ireland, as its leaders battle to resolve a political standoff threatening the peace process.
13 Oct 09 | An Australian man has been sentenced to more than five years in prison in Bulgaria for molesting minors and setting up a child porn network.
13 Oct 09 | Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been ordered to pay back more than 12,000 pounds ($21,000) in parliamentary expenses following a review into a claims scandal that rocked British politics, his office said on Monday.
13 Oct 09 | French magistrates have charged a nuclear scientist suspected of Al-Qaeda links with "membership of a terrorist group", judicial officials say.
13 Oct 09 | KABUL: An Afghan member of a UN-backed panel set up to investigate allegations of fraud in the presidential election has resigned, blaming ''the interference of foreigners''.
13 Oct 09 | THE Defence Force has conceded it made an error when it said two Afghan policemen shot by Australian soldiers at a checkpoint were not wearing uniforms.
13 Oct 09 | YAMAL PENINSULA: About 9700 years after woolly mammoths became extinct, mysteriously dying out at the end of the last ice age, more mammoth remains are emerging from Russia's thawing permafrost.
13 Oct 09 | PARIS: Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the French first lady, has emerged as a key defender of the minister embroiled in a scandal over his self-confessed exploits with ''boys'' as a ''sex tourist'' in Thailand.
13 Oct 09 | LONDON: British MPs have began to challenge openly the authority of the independent auditor charged with investigating expenses abuses at Westminster amid claims that the public servant's inquiry had strayed beyond its remit.
13 Oct 09 | SEDONA, Arizona: The deaths of two people in a sweat lodge and the hospitalisation of a further 19 last week has cast a pall over Sedona, a town renowned as a New Age metaphysical centre.
13 Oct 09 | WASHINGTON: TENS of thousands of activists marched in Washington to show President Barack Obama and Congress that they are impatient with what they consider piecemeal progress on gay rights. They are ready to fight at the federal level for across-the-board equality, including for the right to marry and serve in the military.
13 Oct 09 | TEHRAN: Is Iran threatening, playing nice or bargaining?
13 Oct 09 | CAIRO: The former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami has posted a strong declaration on his website that the protest movement in Iran will not die despite violent crackdowns by the military and police.
13 Oct 09 | NEW DELHI: A gunman wounded during a brazen terrorist attack on Pakistan's military headquarters was also a ringleader in the assault on the Sri Lankan cricket team in March and may have been involved in an assassination attempt on the former president Pervez Musharraf, police say.