Afghanistan: troops to stay on
AUSTRALIAN troops will remain in Afghanistan until at least 2010 -
doubling the original two-year commitment - in a decision that has
not been formally announced or debated.
Wife says canoe man hid at home for 3 years
THE wife of back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin has said he was living in their family home for three years after he was declared dead.
Net shooting threat: Australian man held
AN AUSTRALIAN has been arrested in Melbourne for allegedly posting a threat on the internet warning that a shooting would occur at a shopping centre in the US.
Images of a troubled teen on a killing spree
IN THE first chilling surveillance images released of an American
teenage gunman's shopping mall rampage, which ended with nine
people dead, the shaggy-haired assailant can be seen raising an
assault rifle to fire in front of a department store mannequin.
New trial for Australian snowballer
A US judge has declared a mistrial in the case of an Australian student charged with assault for hitting a co-worker with a snowball.
Third musician murdered in Mexico
A TRUMPET player was found dead with his hands and feet bound in southern Mexico - the country's third murder of a musician in less than a week.
Hell ... and back again
"I don't want my son to live the same life I have led. I don't want
my family to suffer. We are all in the same world. Some people are
suffering and some people are enjoying and I don't know the reason
why."
Amnesty calls for China to free anti-Olympic activists
A London-based international human rights watchdog has called for China to free activists in custody for staging anti-Olympic protests over land grabs and forced evictions.
Island states urge far tougher UN climate goals
Saying that rising seas might wipe countries off the map, small island states urged rich nations at U.N. climate talks on Saturday to axe emissions of greenhouse gases far beyond their existing plans.
Pakistan emergency rule set to end
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf will lift emergency rule and
restore the suspended constitution on December 15, a day earlier
than planned, Attorney General Malik Mohammad Qayyum said on
Saturday.
Suicide bomb kills eight in Iraq
A suicide car bomb exploded in a residential neighbourhood in northern Iraq on Saturday, a Reuters witness said. Police said at least eight people were killed and 40 wounded.
Cyclone flattens Fiji villages
A tropical cyclone with destructive winds of more than 200 kph (125 mph) battered an outlying island of the South Pacific nation of Fiji on Saturday, flattening two small villages and causing widespread destruction.
