09 Mar 10 | LAGOS: At least 500 people were killed on Sunday in communal clashes near Nigeria's central city of Jos, a state governor's adviser said yesterday, revising a previous toll of about 100 dead.
09 Mar 10 | KOLKATA: The Booker-prize winning novelist and activist Arundhati Roy has been invited to ''mediate'' by the leader of the Maoist guerillas fighting a violent insurgency against the Indian state.
09 Mar 10 | CONCEPCION: The officers came with loudspeakers to impoverished neighbourhoods near the epicentre of Chile's devastating earthquake, warning looters to return what they stole or face police raids.
09 Mar 10 | ISLAMABAD: Pakistani intelligence sources in Karachi say that security forces in the southern port city have arrested an American who became a top propagandist for al-Qaeda and who is wanted by the US on treason charges, but US officials say the reports cannot be confirmed.
09 Mar 10 | LONDON: The organisers of Crufts dog show in Birmingham have warned owners not to break its rules amid concerns that some are resorting to make-up, hair dye and other beauty treatments for their animals.
09 Mar 10 | WASHINGTON: The expected resignation of New York congressman Eric Massa overnight was set to cap a grim several days for the Democrats, who have suffered a series of mishaps that have undermined the party's 2006 promise to run ''the most ethical Congress in history''.
09 Mar 10 | A power struggle is going on inside Iraq's Kurds and could change the country's balance of power, writes Paul McGeough.
09 Mar 10 | BAGHDAD: Despite continued and widespread attacks across the country, Iraq's electoral commission is estimating a higher voter turnout in Sunday's poll than in 2005, when 79 per cent of registered voters participated, and the election is being widely hailed as a success.
09 Mar 10 | PRESSURE is mounting on the Prime Minister to use Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's visit to cut a deal for asylum seekers in the Indonesian port of Merak.
09 Mar 10 | WITH Canberra preparing for visits from the leaders of two of Australia's most important friends, March 2010 has a hint of October 2003 about it.
09 Mar 10 | LONG before he became leader of the world's fourth most populous nation, Indonesia's President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, was considered by many in Australia as the great hope for its near neighbour, the man who could usher in a new, prosperous era for the multi-ethnic archipelagic nation.
09 Mar 10 | THE father of the Bali death row inmate Scott Rush has expressed cautious optimism that his son's case will be raised by the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, in discussions with the man who may ultimately decide his fate.
09 Mar 10 | CONCERNS about the readiness of Australian troops involved in a bungled raid in which six people died were expressed before they were deployed to Afghanistan.
09 Mar 10 | BANGKOK: The Thai Prime Minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, has postponed an official visit to Australia and New Zealand because of rising political tensions and the prospect of mass anti-government rallies.
09 Mar 10 | AUSTRALIA'S restrictions on the deployment of its troops in Afghanistan have sparked a serious rift between military leaders in Washington and Canberra, and are likely to be a key issue during the the US President Barack Obama's visit later this month.
09 Mar 10 | AUSTRALIANS travelling to the US will be asked to pay a $US10 ($11) fee to help fund a program to boost tourism - as well as the ailing US economy.
08 Mar 10 | NEW YORK: A former US navy intelligence officer who served in Afghanistan has won the US memory championship for the second year in a row, beating his three fellow finalists in memorising two decks of cards.
08 Mar 10 | KABUL: As soon as a US Marine-led offensive swept the Taliban from Marja recently, a new civilian leader, Abdul Zahir, was rushed in, vowing to ''bring back dignity'' to the town.
08 Mar 10 | THE three al-Qaeda agents assured the Colombians that they would have no problem moving their shipment of European-bound cocaine through the Islamist badlands of the Sahara.
08 Mar 10 | The American-born spokesman for al-Qaeda, Adam Gadahn, has been arrested by Pakistani intelligence officers in the southern city of Karachi.
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