By Randolph E Schmid | 20 Nov 2009A six-metre long crocodile with three sets of fangs - like wild boar tusks - roamed parts of northern Africa millions of years ago, researchers report.
20 Nov 2009A suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed 16 people, including two children and a policeman in western Afghanistan, officials said.
20 Nov 2009EU leaders picked Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy as the European Union's first president, the EU presidency announced on Thursday.
By Belinda Tasker | 20 Nov 2009Hundreds of people have been rescued by emergency service workers after rising floodwaters caused chaos in England's northwest.
By Jean H Lee | 20 Nov 2009A top South Korean model who was a fixture at fashion week in Paris and London has been found dead in her apartment in Paris, an official says.
By Andrew Whalen | 20 Nov 2009Police say a gang in the Peruvian jungle has been killing people and melting fat from the corpses to sell on the black market for use in cosmetics.
20 Nov 2009A Russian shipping company says its icebreaker carrying more than 100 tourists, scientists and journalists on an Antarctic cruise has freed itself from ice.
20 Nov 2009Suspected Maoist rebels have derailed a passenger train in eastern India, killing two people and injuring more than 40, a report says.
20 Nov 2009The death toll from a suicide bombing in western Afghanistan has increased to 13, an Afghan police official says.
20 Nov 2009A gunman has killed at least four people and wounded eight mostly Korean tourists in the Northern Mariana Islands in the western Pacific, officials say.
By ninemsn staff | 20 Nov 2009A top South Korean model has been found dead in her Paris apartment by French police.
By Ilya Gridneff | 20 Nov 2009Australia has no chance of scoring a UN Security Council seat thanks to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's diplomatic bungling, a former Australian diplomat says.
By Oliver Teves | 20 Nov 2009Philippine troops have killed a senior commander of al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf militants wanted for kidnappings and bombings, the military says.
By Gina Doggett | 20 Nov 2009The pope is to meet his Anglican counterpart, just two weeks after a Vatican overture to disgruntled Anglicans to convert to Catholicism.
By ninemsn staff | 20 Nov 2009A respected rabbi with a taste for cocaine and hookers was so tired after a three-day orgy that a pimp cancelled the prostitutes scheduled to visit him, a British court has heard.
20 Nov 2009Honduras' de facto leader Roberto Micheletti said on Thursday he planned to step down for seven days for the country's November 29 national elections.
20 Nov 2009California tax officials say an interior designer's false disability claim was uncovered when he was spotted on a home improvement television show.
By Dan De Luce | 20 Nov 2009US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has announced a thorough investigation into the Fort Hood shootings to ensure such a rampage never happens again.
20 Nov 2009Philip Morris has been ordered to pay $US300 million ($A326.3 million) in damages to a former smoker in Florida, the largest such award to date.
20 Nov 2009A US jury has ruled police didn't use excessive force when they arrested a clown who left a device that turned out to be a balloon inflator in a coffee shop.
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