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5:46AM (ACST): NATO chopper crashes in Afghanistan

HELICOPTER from the NATO-led coalition crashes in mountainous area of eastern Afghanistan, killing one foreign service member. Read more
2:16AM (ACST): Man dies in hospital after standoff

A MAN has died in hospital after shooting himself during a siege of a house in Perth. Read more
1:55AM (ACST): Fears toll could top 100, as mourners shot

AT least 13 mourners shot dead as Syrians swarmed the streets to bury scores of demonstrators killed in massive protests. Read more
12:51AM (ACST): Woman dies after being dropped in sea

A 73-year-old British woman who was accidentally dropped into the Norwegian Sea as rescue workers took her off a cruise ship late last month has died at a hospital in England. Read more

Yesterday

11:05PM (ACST): Pair clock up $5000 taxi fare across US

TWO friends who hired a New York City cab driver to drive them across the US for $US5000 ($A4690) have arrived in Los Angeles. Read more
10:52PM (ACST): Youth attempts robbery at knifepoint

A SYDNEY teenager attempted to rob a supermarket at knifepoint but was chased out by an employee. Read more
10:35PM (ACST): First Predator drone strike on Libya

THE Pentagon confirmed Saturday the first drone strike on Libya amid a day of heavy fighting between rebels in the western city of Misrata and forces loyal to Col Muammar Gaddafi. Read more
9:34PM (ACST): Mr Bean makes the cut for royal wedding

THE full list of confirmed guests and the seating plan for the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton has been released by the British monarchy. Read more
9:24PM (ACST): Floods ravage Easterfest

FLASH flooding has inundated the Christian music festival Easterfest at Toowoomba - a town west of Brisbane that was ravaged in the January floods. Read more
9:06PM (ACST): Snipers shoot mourners at funeral

AT least five people have been killed in Syrian funeral processions, including three shot dead by snipers as they marched to bury their dead in a local cemetery, witnesses said. Read more
8:49PM (ACST): Murder suspect stayed at luxury hotel

A MASSIVE manhunt is continuing for a 50-year-old businessman suspected of murdering his wife and four children in France. Read more
8:36PM (ACST): Thousands flock to giant stinking flower

THOUSANDS of plant lovers have flocked to the northern Swiss city of Basel to see a giant, stinky flower bloom for the first time in 17 years. Read more
8:14PM (ACST): Flood warning: Toowoomba, Lockyer Valley

THE weather bureau has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for the Lockyer Valley and Toowoomba tonight. Read more
7:52PM (ACST): Man taken to hospital after standoff

A MAN has been taken to hospital with critical injuries after shooting himself during the siege of a house in Perth, police say. Read more
7:44PM (ACST): Indonesian bomb suspect is a journalist

A TV news cameraman arrested over Indonesian bomb plots had been recruited to film and broadcast the group's terrorist acts, including a foiled Good Friday church attack, police said today. Read more
6:46PM (ACST): Family suffers serious burns in boat fire

A FAMILY of five, including two children, is being treated in hospital after suffering serious burns in a boat accident on Lake Somerset in Queensland. Read more
5:59PM (ACST): Fiery gyrocopter crash kills pilot

A FIERY gyrocopter crash has left a man dead in northwestern New South Wales. Read more
5:43PM (ACST): Police in standoff with gunman in house

HEAVILY armed police have surrounded a Northbridge house where a tense stand-off with a gunman is continuing. Read more
5:24PM (ACST): Villawood protesters ask to come off roof

THREE protesters who have remained on the roof at Sydney's Villawood Detention Centre following a fiery riot have asked to come down, a refugee advocate says. Read more
5:03PM (ACST): Fatal firecracker blast heard 10km away

AT least four people have been killed and 38 others injured after a truckload of firecrackers exploded in northern Taiwan. Read more
4:55PM (ACST): 13-year-old involved in horrific bashing

FIVE youths, one aged 13, have bashed a man repeatedly to the head with rocks and bricks during a fight on the NSW north coast. Read more
4:33PM (ACST): Powerful quake strikes off the Solomons

A POWERFUL earthquake has struck in waters off the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific. Read more
4:22PM (ACST): Sadness and anger over Kiesha's death

AUSTRALIANS are paying their respects to Kiesha Abrahams with a vigil near her western Sydney home and on the internet after skeletal remains were found in bushland. Read more
4:09PM (ACST): Petrol tanker explodes on busy highway

A CRASH between a four-wheel drive vehicle and fuel tanker has triggered an explosion on a busy Perth highway. Read more
3:35PM (ACST): Lindsay Lohan out of jail after posting bail

LINDSAY Lohan is back in the headlines for all the wrong reasons after a day of drama that began with a Los Angeles judge downgrading a jewellery store theft charge, and ended with the actress facing a jail sentence of 120 days. Read more
2:41PM (ACST): Quake damage leaves Gillard speechless

AN emotional Prime Minister Julia Gillard has toured the Japanese community of Minami Sanriku, a once tranquil fishing town that was obliterated by the recent tsunami. Read more
12:40PM (ACST): Cat burglar on the loose in Melbourne

POLICE are hunting a cat burglar who has stolen jewellery and other property worth millions of dollars from homes in Melbourne's inner-east. Read more
11:49AM (ACST): Gillard arrives in devastated Sendai

PRIME Minister Julia Gillard has arrived in Japan's tsunami-ravaged Sendai to view the devastation. Read more
10:48AM (ACST): Angelina Jolie 'bags Louis Vuitton deal'

ANGELINA Jolie was reportedly almost $10 million richer today after landing a worldwide endorsement deal with Louis Vuitton, E! Online reported. Read more
10:32AM (ACST): Elton picks Lady Gaga to be son's godmother

ELTON John and David Furnish have chosen another flamboyant pop star, Lady Gaga, to be their baby boy's godmother, the two told Barbara Walters in an interview airing today on 20/20. Read more
10:29AM (ACST): Renner to replace Damon in Bourne series

ONE major Hollywood franchise is looking to be Bourne again. Read more
10:25AM (ACST): Gillard arrives in devastated Sendai

PRIME Minister Julia Gillard has arrived in Japan's tsunami-ravaged Sendai to view the devastation. Read more
10:18AM (ACST): Kate as popular as Diana in UK - poll

KATE Middleton is just as popular as the late Princess Diana among the British, according to a survey released today. Read more
9:55AM (ACST): Lohan sentenced to 120 days' jail

A LOS Angeles judge today sentenced actress Lindsay Lohan to 120 days in jail for violating her probation with her arrest in a necklace theft case. Read more
9:44AM (ACST): Obama condemns 'outrageous' Syria violence

US President Barack Obama has condemned Syria's "outrageous" use of violence, accusing the regime of seeking Iran's help in a brutal month-long crackdown which has left more than 70 people dead. Read more
9:40AM (ACST): Man critical after potato gun discharges

A MAN is in a critical condition after being shot in the head with a potato gun in a forest in central western NSW. Read more
9:06AM (ACST): Sentences for child sex inadequate - Lucas

QUEENSLAND'S attorney-general will appeal the sentences imposed on two men for child sex offences. Read more
8:45AM (ACST): Man's death in Queensland 'suspicious'

QUEENSLAND police are treating the death of a man near Bundaberg as suspicious. Read more
8:37AM (ACST): Tiger Airways returns to normal schedule

TIGER spokeswoman Vanessa Regan said all flights had been running on time since yesterday afternoon. Read more
7:56AM (ACST): Woman blindfolded, held at knifepoint

A YOUNG woman, who was pulled inside a car against her will while walking in Sydney's southwest, was blindfolded and held at knifepoint for several hours, police say. Read more
7:40AM (ACST): CERN atom smasher sets new record

THE world's biggest atom smasher has set a new world record for beam intensity, a key measure of performance and power, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) says. Read more
7:16AM (ACST): Appeals court revives Blackwater case

A US appeals court has resurrected the case against four Blackwater Worldwide guards involved in a 2007 shooting in a Baghdad public square that killed 17 Iraqis. Read more
7:08AM (ACST): Lohan's theft charge reduced

A LOS Angeles judge today reduced Lindsay Lohan's felony theft charge to a misdemeanor after the troubled actress allegedly walked out of a jewellery boutique without paying for a $US2500 ($2300) gold necklace in January. Read more
7:04AM (ACST): US teen found guilty of killing four-year-old

A CALIFORNIA teenager accused of molesting and drowning a four-year-old neighbour boy and hiding his body in a clothes dryer was convicted of first-degree murder today. Read more
7:00AM (ACST): Easter holiday road toll climbs to seven

THE Easter holiday long weekend road toll has risen to seven with the death of a 41-year-old man at Wemen south of Mildura in Victoria, taking that state's toll to two. Read more
6:49AM (ACST): Yemen's Saleh cool on Gulf exit plan

YEMEN'S embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh overnight gave a cool response to a Gulf plan for him to quit, even as massive crowds returned to the streets to demand his immediate ouster. Read more
6:39AM (ACST): Gillard to tour tsunami devastation

PRIME Minister Julia Gillard will witness the destruction wrought by last month's Japanese tsunami when she visits one of the hardest hit communities today. Read more
6:34AM (ACST): Pfizer says patient died in drug study

PFIZER Inc has confirmed that one patient who was taking its drug candidate tofacitinib, a pill designed to treat rheumatoid arthritis, died during a recent clinical trial and says the death was connected to the drug. Read more
6:28AM (ACST): Iraq 'must decide soon on US troops'

THE US military's top officer says Baghdad must decide in the "coming weeks" if it needs American forces to stay in Iraq beyond a planned departure at the end of this year. Read more
6:21AM (ACST): Rudd to mark Anzac Day in France

AUSTRALIA'S Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd will mark Anzac Day on a World War I battlefield in France. Read more
6:18AM (ACST): US missiles 'kill 25 people in Pakistan'

US missiles killed 25 people in an al-Qaeda and Taliban sanctuary close to the Afghan border overnight, Pakistani officials said, signalling American intent to press ahead with such attacks despite renewed protests by Islamabad. Read more
6:12AM (ACST): More than 70 killed in Syrian demos

MORE than 70 people were killed overnight by security forces who fired on anti-regime demonstrators across Syria, according to a new toll reported by activists and human rights groups. Read more
6:09AM (ACST): 'Large scale' war crimes by Gaddafi forces

MUAMMAR Gaddafi's forces have committed "crimes against humanity and war crimes on a large scale", according to a human rights lawyer gathering evidence in Libya to present to the International Criminal Court. Read more
1:35AM (ACST): Protest against Egypt Christian governor

TENS of thousands of protesters mass in Egyptian city and cut off a major railway to demand the exit of a Christian governor. Read more
12:47AM (ACST): Man charged over heroin

A MAN has been charged after being caught with heroin on the NSW north coast. Read more
12:09AM (ACST): Driver caught four times over limit

A MAN has been caught driving in Sydney's east with a blood-alcohol level more than four times the legal limit. Read more

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