09 Feb 10 | BEIRUT: In a possible move to deflect attention from Iran's political woes, the President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has ordered the nation's atomic energy agency to begin enriching uranium from 3.5 per cent to 20 per cent purity to serve as fuel for a Tehran medical reactor.
09 Feb 10 | RAMAT HaSHARON: Israel will launch a revolutionary electric car grid with dozens of recharge stations and thousands of cars on the road by next year, the project's developers say.
09 Feb 10 | JAKARTA: The two biggest coalition partners of the Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, have delivered highly critical assessments of the bailout of a collapsed bank, signalling the President's political support is fracturing.
09 Feb 10 | KUALA LUMPUR: The trial of the Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was temporarily halted yesterday after he called for the removal of the judge.
09 Feb 10 | ATHENS: From the empty shops, to the half-full theatres, restaurants, concert halls and hotels, the signs are everywhere: economic crisis has come to Greece and it is biting hard.
09 Feb 10 | A United Nations committee has ruled that the Japanese Government repeatedly breached human rights guarantees in pursuit of two Greenpeace whistleblowers who exposed an illegal trade in whale meat. The finding is seen as an embarrassment for Japan before the trial of the ''Tokyo Two'' activists next Monday.
09 Feb 10 | BLUE whales have changed their songs. It is the same old tune, but the pitch of the blues is mysteriously lower - especially off the coast of California where, researchers say, the whales' voices have dropped by more than half an octave since the 1960s.
09 Feb 10 | KIEV: The opposition leader, Viktor Yanukovich, declared victory in Ukraine's presidential election after voters punished the West-leaning leaders of the Orange Revolution, but his rival has refused to concede defeat.
09 Feb 10 | BEIJING: Police in central China have shut down a hacker training operation that openly recruited thousands of members online and provided them with cyberattack lessons and malicious software.
09 Feb 10 | MIDDLETOWN, Connecticut: Rescuers continued to hunt for survivors or more dead yesterday in the rubble of a US power plant after a huge gas explosion tore it apart and killed at least five workers.
09 Feb 10 | PORT-AU-PRINCE: In autumn 2008, a pastor travelled through the barren countryside of Haiti asking parents to give him their children. He promised an education and a better life at an orphanage he said was bankrolled by Americans.
09 Feb 10 | WASHINGTON: Sarah Palin's posturing at the weekend appears to have fired a starter's gun in the race for the Republican nomination for the 2012 presidential contest.
09 Feb 10 | JERUSALEM: An Australian appeared in the Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem yesterday following her arrest in the morning by Israeli authorities during a raid in the central West Bank.
08 Feb 10 | JERUSALEM: An Australian woman is one of two foreign activists arrested by Israel's military in a pre-dawn raid in the occupied West Bank yesterday.
08 Feb 10 | LONDON: A Nobel Peace laureate, Shirin Ebadi, has called on her fellow Iranians to defy the country's security forces and take to the streets this week on the anniversary of the 1979 revolution.
08 Feb 10 | NEW DELHI: The Indian government has strongly backed the embattled head of the United Nations' climate change panel, Rajendra Pachauri, and broadly endorsed the panel's findings.
08 Feb 10 | CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti: The unfinished wooden boat rocks gently in the backwater of Cap-Haitien Bay, lulling 17-year-old Douna Marcellus and two dozen others to sleep as tight balls of mosquitoes hover overhead. Cicadas serenade them from the reeds on one bank and, on the other, black pigs root through rubbish.
08 Feb 10 | KABUL: Tens of thousands of Afghan civilians are leaving an area of Helmand province where British and US forces are preparing to launch a big military operation.
08 Feb 10 | LONDON: The United Nations panel on climate change is facing fresh criticism for new factual errors and poor sources of evidence in its influential report to government leaders.
08 Feb 10 | JOHANNESBURG: As the controversy surrounding his latest sex scandal refuses to die, South Africa's polygamous President, Jacob Zuma, has issued a statement saying he regrets the ''pain'' caused by the revelation that he has fathered a love child.
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