The PNG government has sent in armed police officers to act against a splinter group blocking access to the parliament building.
The chief justice of Indonesia's Constitutional Court has criticised the Schapelle Corby clemency decision, saying drug crimes are worse than terrorism.
A US man who received a $69,300 windfall in a bank deposit error is facing up to 14 years in prison after spending the money in a month-long shopping spree.
Former US president Bill Clinton has been photographed with his arms around two porn stars at a function in Monaco.
The famously private Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, has been coaxed into giving a rare interview -- with an Australian accountant.
Voting has ended in Egypt's first free presidential election, with counting getting under way immediately.
He admits to punching above his weight and drooling in bed but a UK groom has become an internet hit with a self-depreciating wedding song he penned for his bride.
A two-day meeting of Iran and world powers has agreed to hold more talks on Tehran's nuclear program next month.
A British minister lobbied Prime Minister David Cameron to back Rupert Murdoch's bid for broadcaster BSkyB, according to a memo that's been made public.
A man is being questioned in New York after claiming involvement in a 33-year-old case that caused an era of anxiety about leaving children unsupervised.
The annual US report on human rights has hailed the Middle East uprisings for motivating people around the world to demand more rights.
The US has deported a former Bosnian Serb police commander accused of playing a leading role in the massacre of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica.
At least seven people were injured when a fire broke out on a US nuclear submarine at a dockyard in the state of Maine, but the nuclear reactor on board was not in danger, the navy said Thursday.
Two Poles were detained Thursday after a corpse rolled up in a rug fell out of a sofa-bed that they were trying to load on a local commuter train, a police officer said.
A man has told New York police he suffocated a long-missing six-year-old boy, in a possible break in a crime that helped launch a missing children's movement across the United States.
The Italian father at the centre of a bitter battle for custody of his four daughters has released photos of himself with the girls in a bid to clear his name.
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