18 Mar 10 | TWELVE Australians are not yet accounted for in the region of Fiji battered by Cyclone Tomas.
18 Mar 10 | RIGA: About 1000 people took part in a flower-laying ceremony to commemorate Latvians who fought in two Waffen SS divisions on the side of Nazi Germany in World War II, while hundreds of police kept angry ethnic Russian protesters at bay.
18 Mar 10 | CHINESE authorities have defended detaining for six months lead poisoning victims who were seeking medical care, saying the punishment was necessary for ''public education''.
18 Mar 10 | THE Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, is facing the first serious tests of his leadership as trusted political colleagues spark a schism in his ruling party and begin jockeying for the succession.
18 Mar 10 | BEIJING: Google appears to have missed a Monday deadline to re-register as an ''internet content provider'' in China, which observers say is a sign that it is preparing to shut down its search engine there.
18 Mar 10 | CAIRO: The future of one of the world's largest Islamic websites is in doubt after hundreds of staff went on strike, occupying their office, accusing new managers of trying to hijack the site in order to promote a hardline, conservative agenda.
18 Mar 10 | BAGHDAD: The Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, said the electoral commission was manipulating results and demanded a recount in Baghdad, home to the nation's largest group of voters.
18 Mar 10 | WASHINGTON: The crisis in Israel-US relations, described by Michael Oren, the Israeli ambassador to Washington, as the worst in 35 years, could be just the opportunity the Obama administration needs to achieve a breakthrough in the Middle East.
18 Mar 10 | SO NEAR and yet so far. Nouri Al-Maliki leads a coalition that can still emerge with the single biggest bloc of seats in Iraq's parliament, but it is way too early to congratulate him on securing a second term as prime minister.
18 Mar 10 | WASHINGTON: News emerged yesterday of another building project of more than 300 homes planned for East Jerusalem, even as Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, sought to step back from a growing public feud with Israel over its settlement policies.
18 Mar 10 | WASHINGTON: Any criminals dumb enough to brag about their exploits on social networking sites have now been warned - the next Facebook ''friend'' who contacts you may be an FBI agent.
18 Mar 10 | PARIS: A French policeman died on Tuesday in a shoot-out with Basque-speaking gunmen linked by Spanish media to the separatist group ETA.
18 Mar 10 | BERLIN: A man has turned himself in to police in connection with a raid on a high-stakes poker tournament that netted the thieves more than $300,000, German police said.
16 Mar 10 | THOUSANDS fled their homes as two massive cyclones tore through the South Pacific, flattening houses and villages.
16 Mar 10 | LONDON: Two Britons accused of kissing in public in Dubai face up to a month in jail after a mother complained that her child had seen them.
16 Mar 10 | ASSAILANTS gunned down three people returning from a party at a US consulate employee's home in the Mexican city of Juarez, including a pregnant US government employee and her husband, in two attacks a few minutes apart.
16 Mar 10 | DUBLIN: Ireland's most senior Catholic cleric has rejected calls to quit after being accused of trying to cover up allegations of sex abuse by a notorious pedophile priest in the 1970s.
16 Mar 10 | MOSCOW: People made emergency calls reporting heart attacks. Others rushed in a panic to buy bread and petrol. All this after a television station in Georgia broadcast a mock newscast on Saturday, pretending to report on a Russian invasion of the country.
16 Mar 10 | SHANGHAI: The ''invasion'' of English words into the Chinese language must be stopped, the country's senior translator says.
16 Mar 10 | THOUSANDS fled their homes as two massive cyclones tore through the South Pacific, flattening houses and villages.
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