World News
03 Nov 09 | WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court will hear a case this week that raises fundamental questions about the ability of the market to set ''reasonable'' executive pay rates. Experts say its outcome could hold important clues about the judiciary's view of recent extraordinary interventions by the White House and Congress.
03 Nov 09 | NEW YORK: Church volunteers greet visitors entering the lobby. The band begins its set and a pastor offers to pray privately with anyone during the service. When the sermon is done, it's time for Communion, and the pastor guides worshippers through the ritual.
03 Nov 09 | TEHRAN: It has witnessed some of Iran's most tumultuous events - the fall of the shah, the return of Ayatollah Khomeini and its transformation that took it from a pro-Western monarchy to a revolutionary Islamic republic.
03 Nov 09 | WINDHOEK, Namibia: Rights abuses in Zimbabwe's diamond fields are set to dominate talks, which opened yesterday and were organised by the global body responsible for preventing trade in the gems fuelling armed conflicts.
03 Nov 09 | BANGKOK: Thai authorities have charged two people with spreading false information about the health of the king, after rumours last month sent the sharemarket plunging.
03 Nov 09 | NEW DELHI: A suicide bomb in a high security zone of the Pakistani garrison town of Rawalpindi killed at least 34 people yesterday, including military personnel, as the United Nations withdrew international staff from the country's north-west because of deteriorating security.
03 Nov 09 | BEIJING: China will no longer risk damaging ties with its traditional ally North Korea by pushing it to scrap its nuclear weapons program, says the International Crisis Group.
03 Nov 09 | JERUSALEM: Palestinian officials have criticised the US for what one called ''backpedalling'' on demands that Israel stop settlement construction in the occupied West Bank, saying the Obama Administration's change of approach on the issue damaged the likelihood of a peace agreement.
03 Nov 09 | WASHINGTON: The world's most powerful military machine is scrambling to fight a simple, low-tech weapon in Afghanistan that is killing and maiming allied soldiers at an alarming rate.
03 Nov 09 | WESTERN diplomats have joined forces to head off the election they insisted Afghanistan had to have.
03 Nov 09 | THE officer in charge of an Australian special forces unit in Afghanistan has been removed from his command after a high-level investigation into the death of a young lieutenant revealed problems in the elite unit's training and leadership.
03 Nov 09 | THE Indonesian Government is deeply unhappy with the notion of an ''Indonesian solution'' to the asylum seekers trying to come to Australia, calling instead for an ''Australian solution''.
03 Nov 09 | WASHINGTON: Defeat in governors' races in Virginia and New Jersey and a contest for a vacant House of Representatives seat in New York would deliver a major setback to President Barack Obama.
03 Nov 09 | A SEARCH was under way last night for at least 11 Sri Lankan asylum seekers missing in the Indian Ocean after their boat sank while heading for Australia.
02 Nov 09 | WASHINGTON: New FBI figures offer evidence of the broad scope of the US's terrorism watch list, documenting a daily flood of names nominated for inclusion to the controversial document.
02 Nov 09 | BERLIN: Three statesmen who oversaw the fall of the Berlin Wall that led to the collapse of communism in Europe gathered at the weekend to reflect on the changes they helped usher in 20 years ago.
02 Nov 09 | WASHINGTON: The wildlife biologist Lynn Rogers had logged thousands of hours studying North America's black bears.
02 Nov 09 | A new lobby group in Washington is taking money from Arabs and trying to turn US policy on Israel on its head, writes Chris McGreal.
02 Nov 09 | LONDON: Pirates holding an English couple in Somalia are split on whether to demand a ransom or prisoner exchange to free them, one of their captors said, as Britain insisted it would not pay for their release.
02 Nov 09 | COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's top military commander, General Sarath Fonseka, is to be questioned by US authorities over allegations of war crimes during the island's fight against Tamil Tiger rebels, according to Colombo's Sunday Times.