World News
1:00 AM AEDT | A VATICAN researcher claims a nearly invisible text on the Shroud of Turin proves the authenticity of the artifact revered as the burial cloth of Jesus.
1:00 AM AEDT | A UNIVERSITY'S requirement that overweight undergraduates take fitness classes before they receive their degrees has upset students and drawn criticism from health and legal experts.
1:00 AM AEDT | THE world's biggest atom-smasher, shut down after its inauguration in September 2008 amid technical faults, was restarted yesterday.
1:00 AM AEDT | SRI LANKA plans to let war-displaced civilians move freely in and out of internment camps ahead of completing their planned resettlement in two months.
1:00 AM AEDT | FANS and friends expressed shock yesterday at the death of a South Korean model who was found hanged in her central Paris apartment.
1:00 AM AEDT | A BRITISH couple being held hostage by Somali pirates say they fear they will be killed or handed to a terrorist group if a ransom is not paid soon.
1:00 AM AEDT | KIDNEY stones, malaria, Lyme disease, depression and respiratory illness may increase with global warming, researchers at Harvard Medical School say.
1:00 AM AEDT | COCKERMOUTH, England: The floods that have engulfed northern England's picturesque Lake District after the heaviest rainfall recorded in Britain killed a police officer and trapped hundreds in their swamped homes.
21 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his wife while having a nightmare that she was an intruder walked free from court after the case against him was withdrawn.
21 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.
21 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.
21 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.
21 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.
21 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.
21 Nov 09 | No one knows why birth defects are increasing but doctors fear they are a result of war, writes Martin Chulov in Falluja.
21 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.
21 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.
21 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.
21 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.
21 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.