Sunday Nov 22 11:00 AEDT
4 mins agoA bear has attacked a man who entered its enclosure at a new park in Switzerland, and a policeman opened fire on the animal to defend the intruder.
Sunday Nov 22 10:17 AEDT
47 mins agoThousands of pro- and anti-government protesters have taken to the streets of Nicaragua's capital over President Daniel Ortega's bid to remain in power.
Sunday Nov 22 08:02 AEDT
3 hours 2 mins agoAn explosion at a coal mine in northeast China has killed at least 42 workers, state news agency Xinhua says, citing emergency services.
Sunday Nov 22 07:55 AEDT
3 hours 9 mins agoBritish PM Gordon Brown has visited the scene of massive floods that killed one person and stranded hundreds in the heaviest rainfall on record in England.
Sunday Nov 22 07:27 AEDT
By Ali Akbar Dareini | 3 hours 37 mins agoIran will begin large-scale air defence war games on Sunday aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from possible attack.
By David Stringer | 3 hours 37 mins agoComputer hackers have broken into a server at a climate change research centre in Britain and posted hundreds of private emails and documents online.
3 hours 38 mins agoA thousand people were evacuated and traffic was stopped after the Galeras volcano erupted in southern Colombia without causing casualties.
Sunday Nov 22 07:03 AEDT
4 hours 1 mins agoIreland is battling floods described as a "once in 800 years event", with the government rushing to provide shelter and drinking water.
Sunday Nov 22 05:51 AEDT
5 hours 13 mins agoIraqi MPs will meet again to try to break the deadlock on a stalled electoral law which has left the country's planned January general election in doubt.
By Victor L Simpson | 5 hours 13 mins agoThe Archbishop of Canterbury has held his first talks with Pope Benedict XVI since the Roman Catholic Church's invitation to disaffected Anglicans.
5 hours 14 mins agoA rocket attack near the luxury Serena Hotel in Kabul has wounded four people, including at least one member of the Afghan security forces.
Saturday Nov 21 22:01 AEDT
By Ariel David | 21 Nov 2009Italian police have arrested a Pakistani father and son accused of helping fund last year's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, authorities said.
Saturday Nov 21 21:59 AEDT
21 Nov 2009The death toll in an explosion at a coal mine in northeast China early on Saturday rose to 42 workers with 66 still missing, state news agency Xinhua said.
Saturday Nov 21 21:32 AEDT
By Hammoud Mounassar | 21 Nov 2009Al-Qaeda gunmen have seized a Japanese engineer from his kidnappers in Yemen, a tribal source who has been seeking to negotiate his release said on Saturday.
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