Biden urges move on Mid East talks
US vice president Joe Biden called today for no delay in resuming Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, after Palestinians said Israel must cancel a settlement project before negotiations can begin.
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Conditions in Haiti still dire – Obama
US President Barack Obama said today conditions in quake-stricken Haiti remained dire and promised that the United States would be a reliable partner in reconstruction efforts.
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Iran attacks US over Afghanistan
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Afghanistan today for a visit, after US secretary of defence Robert Gates said he was wary of Tehran’s influence in the country.
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Turkey recalls envoy to Sweden
Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan today said he had recalled Turkey’s ambassador to Stockholm over a Swedish parliament vote branding the WW1 killing of Armenians by Ottoman forces as genocide.
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Protest over asylum-seeker deaths
A group of neighbours are expected to stage a demonstration today to remember three asylum seekers who died after they fell from a high-rise block of flats.
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Venables recall ‘not made public’
British justice secretary Jack Straw refused to reveal further details of Jon Venables recall to prison as he updated MPs on the case today
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War Hero Gets Career-Ending Reprimand
Exclusive: Soldier Decorated for Bravery in the Deadliest Battle of the Afghan War Faulted for Inadequate Preparation
International Women’s Day absurd, says model
Millions of women around the world are feted on International Women’s Day but for Waris Dirie, the Somali nomad turned supermodel, the idea is absurd.
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Rapper Lil Wayne jailed on gun charges
After whirlwind goodbyes to fans, diminutive US rapper Lil Wayne was sentenced to one year in jail today after he pleaded guilty on a gun possession charge in a 2007 incident.
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Man guilty of Letterman blackmail
A television producer pleaded guilty today to trying to extort $2 million from US talk show host David Letterman by threatening to reveals his affairs with women who worked on his late-night programme on CBS.
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Floods force Mozambique evacuations
Flooding in Mozambique killed two people and displaced hundreds of families, prompting the government to step up rescue operations and issue a red alert for some areas.
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Suicide attack kills 11 in Pakistan
A Taliban suicide bomber targeting security forces killed at least 11 people today, Pakistani police said, part of a renewed push against the state after one of the biggest security crackdowns in years.
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Gunmen attack Pakistan aid agency
Suspected Islamist militants stormed an office of a US-based Christian aid agency in Pakistan today, killing six members of staff in a hail of bullets and a bomb.
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Police shoot Bali bomb suspect
A suspected mastermind of the Bali bombings was killed in a police raid in Indonesia in the latest blow to an Islamist militant movement in the world’s most populous Muslim country.
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Regimes Winning Online Battles, Group Says
Reporters Without Borders Finds Repressive Countries Becoming More Sophisticated at Thwarting Dissidents Online
