Israel frees Palestinians as talks gesture

US Secretary of State John Kerry says Israeli and Palestinian negotiators will resume peace talks. Source: AAP ISRAEL says it will release some Palestinian prisoners as a "gesture", as the two sides agreed to meet to pave the way for their...

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Shop alone ban for women in Pakistan area

TRIBAL elders and Islamic clerics in northwest Pakistan have barred women from shopping in bazaars without a male relative. The decision was taken on Friday in the Karak district of conservative Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which borders the...

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Tutu pays tribute to Mandela after visit

Nelson Mandela was visited by fellow peace laureate, archbishop Desmond Tutu (pic). Source: AAP A DAY after turning 95, Nelson Mandela was visited by fellow peace laureate, archbishop Desmond Tutu, who praised him for continuing to inspire...

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Berlusconi allies guilty over prostitutes

A Milan court has found three of Silvio Berlusconi's associates guilty of procuring prostitutes. Source: AAP A MILAN court has found three of Silvio Berlusconi's associates guilty of procuring prostitutes - including the then underage Ruby...

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Court convicts five over Costa Concordia

AN Italian judge has accepted plea bargain agreements for four Costa Concordia crew members and a manager from owners Costa Crociere, in the first legal punishments for last year's shipwreck. Deputy commander Ciro Ambrosio, third officer Silvia...

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Poachers kill two Kenyan wildlife rangers

Two Kenyan wildlife rangers have been killed in a gun battle with suspected elephant poachers. Source: AAP TWO Kenyan wildlife rangers have been killed in a gun battle with suspected elephant poachers, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said...

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Elderly woman critical after home fire

AN elderly woman is critical after suffering a cardiac arrest during a Sydney house fire. Fire crews were called to the cottage home in Burwood, in the city's inner-west, about 6pm (AEST) on Friday. They located the woman, aged in her 80s,...

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Rudd surprises with hardline boat plan

PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd may have neutralised Labor's biggest policy weakness by declaring Australia will never again receive asylum seekers coming by boat. The hardline plan to force all boat arrivals to Papua New Guinea for processing and...

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Hong Kong shares close flat

HONG Kong shares have ended flat, with profit-taking offsetting a positive lead from Wall Street, where the Dow and S&P ended at record highs. The benchmark Hang Seng Index edged up 17.20 points to 21,362.42 on turnover of $HK47.96 billion...

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Kerry in West Bank dash for more talks

Palestinian politicians have rejected John Kerry's proposal for peace talks with Israel. Source: AAP US Secretary of State John Kerry is dashing to the West Bank to meet Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas as he battles to salvage his Middle...

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Asian shares mixed after Bernanke comments

ASIAN markets have closed mixed in a muted reaction after US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke said the bank had no plan to wind down its stimulus until the economy is back on track. The comments, which came as a closely watched report said growth...

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Malaysian sex bloggers on sedition charge

A MALAYSIAN couple known for a sexually explicit blog have been charged with sedition after they caused outrage by posting a Ramadan greeting on Facebook which showed them eating pork. Alvin Tan, 25, and Vivian Lee, 24, pleaded not guilty to publishing...

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Quitting refugee convention oppn option

A COALITION government would keep open all options for dealing with asylum seeker boat arrivals including withdrawing Australia from the United Nations refugee convention. But opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison said that would take...

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Navalny: ambitious crusader against Putin

RUSSIA'S charismatic protest leader Alexei Navalny, sentenced to five years in a prison colony, has galvanised the opposition with lacerating attacks on President Vladimir Putin and the Russian elite. Navalny is a new breed of Russian protest...

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Troops shoot dead six Kashmir protesters

INDIAN paramilitary forces have shot dead six people protesting against an alleged incident involving troops in a religious seminary in Kashmir, police say. Troops fired on protesters who had gathered outside a Border Security Force (BSF) station...

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Microsoft cuts internal divisions

MICROSOFT announced a big internal re-organisation last week, drastically slimming down the number of sub-divisions and teams within it. CEO Steve Ballmer said it was a "far-reaching realignment of the company" and gave it a name: One Microsoft....

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Two new celebrity Tweeters get it right

"WELCOME to my Twitter account," wrote Prince Andrew, the Duke of York last week, making his debut on the social networking site. A couple of days later, Manchester United football club joined in the tweeting too, with the message "New era, same...

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China's toll from Typhoon Soulik mounts

AT least 295 people have been confirmed dead or missing after rainstorms and Typhoon Soulik hit China, causing floods, landslides and buildings to collapse, the government says. Torrential rains have battered the southwestern province of Sichuan...

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Hong Kong shares end 0.12% higher

HONG Kong and Shanghai stocks rose on Monday after Chinese economic growth data for the April-June quarter came in as forecast. Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng Index added 0.12 per cent, or 26.03 points, to 21,303.31 on turnover of HK$45.98...

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France vows to punish Mali hostage killers

A body found in northern Mali may be that of Philippe Verdon (R) kidnapped by al-Qaeda in 2011. Source: AAP FRENCH President Francois Hollande says there is a "very strong" chance that a body found in northern Mali is that of a French hostage...

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