World News
17 Nov 09 | LONDON: A British soldier who faces up to 10 years in jail for speaking out against the war in Afghanistan will go before a military judge this week to discover if he will remain in an army jail while he awaits trial.
16 Nov 09 | NEW YORK: In her best-selling crime novels, Patricia Cornwell's heroine Kay Scarpetta uses her skills in forensic pathology to solve some grisly murders.
16 Nov 09 | WASHINGTON: The Obama Administration is considering relocating some Guantanamo detainees to a mostly vacant prison in the President's home state of Illinois.
16 Nov 09 | LONDON: The British military has become embroiled in yet more controversy over its conduct in the Iraq war. The Ministry of Defence has confirmed it is investigating 33 new allegations by Iraqi civilians of rape and abuse against soldiers.
16 Nov 09 | WASHINGTON: The CIA has funnelled hundreds of millions of dollars to Pakistan's intelligence service since the September 11 attacks, accounting for as much as one-third of the agency's budget, US officials say.
16 Nov 09 | PRISTINA: Kosovo launched a huge security operation before yesterday's first polls since its independence declaration last year, drafting in thousands of extra police, a spokesman said.
16 Nov 09 | ROME: The Italian escort who claims to have spent a night with Silvio Berlusconi is to star in a film about her alleged exploits.
16 Nov 09 | LONDON: TWO German men who murdered an actor in 1990 are suing Wikipedia, claiming its description of their crimes impinges on their privacy.
16 Nov 09 | A SERVICE using mobile phones to teach English in Bangladesh has been overwhelmed by users since its launch on Thursday.
16 Nov 09 | WASHINGTON: Sarah Palin is embarking on what is likely to be the most commercially successful book tour by a politician since Barack Obama launched The Audacity of Hope three years ago. Mr Obama's book tour spawned a presidential campaign. Will Mrs Palin's eventually do the same?
16 Nov 09 | MEXICO CITY: Mexicans were none too pleased to read that their country's most-wanted cocaine kingpin had been ranked by Forbes magazine as one of the most powerful people in the world.
16 Nov 09 | BEIJING: President Barack Obama, scheduled to arrive in China last night, is under pressure to press the Chinese Government to halt a new campaign of "persecution" against the country's flourishing network of unregistered churches.
16 Nov 09 | TANJUNG PINANG, Indonesia: Indonesian authorities opened fire on a boat full of Afghan refugees, wounding two people, after demanding a bribe the Afghans could not afford to pay, one of the refugees says.
16 Nov 09 | SINGAPORE: Kevin Rudd made little progress with the Indonesians over the handling of asylum seekers during the APEC summit in Singapore and was unable to secure a formal meeting with the President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
16 Nov 09 | SINGAPORE: Kevin Rudd says it is legitimate to question the future of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation forum as he pushes his idea for a new regional body that would have a wider agenda than APEC and include all key players such as India.
16 Nov 09 | SINGAPORE: Any last chance of the Copenhagen climate change conference producing a binding target for the world to cut greenhouse gases has evaporated following a lack of collective resolve by the members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit.
16 Nov 09 | JAKARTA: Indonesia is planning to deport Sri Lankan asylum seekers at Merak, including ''Alex'', the English-speaking spokesman for the group that has spent more than a month at the Javanese port refusing to leave their vessel.
15 Nov 09 | JOHN TRAVOLTA wept openly in his first television interview since the death of his only son, Jett.
15 Nov 09 | AN INVESTIGATION has been launched after claims British soldiers tortured Iraqi civilians, Britain's Ministry of Defence has revealed.
15 Nov 09 | BILLING himself as America's first "Pacific president", Barack Obama said the United States did not seek to "contain" China and promised a full US role in charting Asia's future.