World News
20 Nov 09 | A DEVOTED husband who strangled his wife while having a nightmare that she was an intruder walked free from court after the case against him was withdrawn.
20 Nov 09 | LIFE remains tough for these child labourers, working at a balloon workshop in Kamrangir Char, Bangladesh, 20 years after the United Nations adopted a treaty guaranteeing children's rights.
20 Nov 09 | LONDON: The High Court has flatly rejected claims by the British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, that releasing evidence of the CIA's inhuman and unlawful treatment of the British resident Binyam Mohamed would harm Britain's relations with the US by giving away intelligence secrets.
20 Nov 09 | KABUL: In dwelling on the need to combat corruption, to talk to the Taliban and to transfer control of policing Afghanistan from foreign troops to the country's own security institutions, Hamid Karzai did enough to appease the US and its allies, who regarded his inauguration speech as a key test of the newly reappointed President.
20 Nov 09 | PREPARE yourselves for the trial of the century, if not the millennium. If you thought the O. J. Simpson or Michael Jackson cases were sensational, just wait until Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed mastermind of the September 11 attacks, shuffles into a Lower Manhattan courtroom in his shackles and orange jumpsuit to stand trial for the worst terrorist atrocity in US history.
20 Nov 09 | LONDON: British lawyers for a nine-year-old boy due to be removed from Britain were yesterday urgently trying to stop his deportation.
20 Nov 09 | No one knows why birth defects are increasing but doctors fear they are a result of war, writes Martin Chulov in Falluja.
20 Nov 09 | LOS ANGELES: Only days after a US panel scaled back on breast cancer screening recommendations, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has done the same for Pap tests, which are credited with drastically reducing the rates of cervical cancer.
20 Nov 09 | WASHINGTON: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced a $US335 million ($365 million) investment in teacher effectiveness in three large US school systems and some public charter schools.
20 Nov 09 | SACRAMENTO: With California facing a budget crisis, state legislators and other elected officials face an 18 per cent pay cut next month, after a challenge by politicians backfired.
20 Nov 09 | LONDON: The MP who heads the committee responsible for policing House of Commons expenses has claimed almost £30,000 ($54,000) for a second home that his wife has banned him from staying in.
20 Nov 09 | ROME: The Archbishop of Canterbury has pleaded with Catholics to set aside their differences with Anglicans over the issue of female bishops, insisting there was more uniting the denominations than dividing them.
20 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.
20 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.
20 Nov 09 | Villagers may be scapegoats for Indonesia's military activities, writes Jonathan Pearlman.
20 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.
20 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.
20 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.
20 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.
20 Nov 09 | Changing Scientology's tax-exempt status could involve a legal stoush, writes Malcolm Knox.