US peace envoy back in Belfast for talks

AMERICAN envoy Richard Haass has returned to Belfast for a second attempt at quelling simmering disputes in Northern Ireland. Haass, a former U.S. diplomat, was called in by the province's power sharing government to help resolve lingering disputes...

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Zimbabwe ambassador goes into hiding

Zimbabwe's ambassador to Australia has gone into hiding after applying for a protection visa. Jacqueline Zwambila was due to return home on Tuesday but instead appealed to the Australian government claiming her life would be in danger if she returned...

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Astronauts begin urgent space repairs

ASTRONAUTS have stepped out on the first of a series of urgent repair spacewalks at the International Space Station. The two Americans on the crew floated outside on Saturday morning. They will disconnect an ammonia pump that contains a bad...

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Swedish Christmas goat engulfed in flames

VANDALS in Sweden have burned down for the 27th time a giant straw goat meant to symbolise Christmas spirit. The 13-metre high and 3.6-tonne heavy straw goat was engulfed in flames early on Saturday after unidentified assailants attacked it...

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Motorcyclist dies after toy run event

A 58-YEAR-OLD man is dead and a teenage girl is in hospital after a motorcycle crash on the Brooker Highway in Hobart. Police say the motorcycle, which had earlier been involved in a toy run event, was travelling north when it crashed about...

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Australia close to FTA with China: Bishop

AFTER eight years of negotiations, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says she is hopeful of clinching a free trade agreement with China within months. Ms Bishop was in Beijing this week for high-level talks with Chinese officials including Vice-President...

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Motorcyclist dies after toy run event

A 58-YEAR-OLD man is dead and a teenage girl is in hospital after a motorcycle crash on the Brooker Highway in Hobart. Police say the motorcycle, which had earlier been involved in a toy run event, was travelling north when it crashed about...

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Australia close to FTA with China: Bishop

AFTER eight years of negotiations, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says she is hopeful of clinching a free trade agreement with China within months. Ms Bishop was in Beijing this week for high-level talks with Chinese officials including Vice-President...

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Tibetan campaigner arrives in Dharmsala

A 42-YEAR-OLD Tibetan has arrived at the headquarters of the government-in-exile in India after cycling through Europe and Asia in a campaign protesting China's heavy-handed rule in the Himalayan region. Scores of people lined the streets of...

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French tax protests rumble on

THOUSANDS of trucks blocked highways and roads across France in ongoing protests over an environmental tax that continue to smoulder, despite the government putting the levy on ice. The Interior Ministry said around 2200 trucks were taking part...

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Militants attack polio team in Pakistan

MILITANTS have attacked police protecting an anti-polio team in Pakistan's troubled northwest, killing one policeman and injuring another. The policeman was part of polio eradication campaign in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province....

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Chess world championship starts

DEFENDING champion Viswanathan Anand has held Norwegian challenger Magnus Carlsen to a quick draw with the black pieces in the first game of their chess world championship match. Playing in Chennai on Saturday close to where Anand was born,...

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Young Aussies are most stressed out: study

AUSTRALIAN employees are suffering high levels of stress, a survey reveals. That's not surprising. Australians overall report declining wellbeing and increasing stress, according to a state-of-the-nation survey commissioned by the Australian Psychological...

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Germans commemorate Kristallnacht

GERMANS across the country have commemorated the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht - the night of broken glass - during which the Nazis staged a wave of attacks on Jews in Germany and Austria. On November 9, 1938, hundreds of synagogues were burned,...

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Jetski rider dies after Gold Coast crash

Hospital cuts to hit kids EXCLUSIVE: EMERGENCY helicopter cases will have to bypass the new Monash Children's Hospital after the State Government cut plans for a helipad. Victory fan stabbed in brawl A MELBOURNE Victory fan is believed...

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Pakistani Taliban selects new leader

THE Pakistani Taliban has selected Khan Said Sajna as the insurgent group's new leader after Hakimullah Mehsud was killed in a US drone strike, members of the organisation say. Sajna is from a group within the Pakistani Taliban that was in favour...

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Bahrain opposition leader faces prosecutor

BAHRAIN'S main opposition group says its leader has been called to the state prosecutor's office over an exhibition that showed alleged abuses against anti-government protesters. It's unclear whether Ali Salman, the head of the Shi'ite bloc...

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In midst of Syria war, Jesus statue arises

IN the midst of a conflict rife with sectarianism, a giant bronze statue of Jesus has gone up on a Syrian mountain, apparently under cover of a truce among three warring factions. Jesus stands, arms outstretched, on the Cherubim mountain, overlooking...

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Iran editor jailed for religious article

THE editor of an Iranian reformist newspaper has been jailed for publishing an article on Shia Islam deemed offensive by authorities. The ISNA news agency said Saeed Pourazizi of the Bahar newspaper was taken to Evin prison on Saturday. ISNA...

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UK director Antonia Bird dies at 54

ANTONIA Bird, one of Britain's leading female film and TV directors, has died aged 54. She was known for 1990s' films including Priest, Face and Ravenous, all starring actor Robert Carlyle. Bird's TV credits included Spooks, Cracker, EastEnders...

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Mount Etna volcano erupts

MOUNT Etna, Europe's most active volcano, has erupted, sending up a towering plume of ash visible in much of eastern Sicily. Etna's eruptions aren't infrequent, although the last major one occurred in 1992.Catania airport says the eruption on Saturday...

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Jailed Greenpeace activist clings to hope

A BRITISH environmental campaigner facing 15 years in a Russian jail for alleged piracy says she is "trying very, very hard not to lose hope". Greenpeace activist Alexandra Harris has been denied bail following a month in prison for her part in...

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Opera House gets price tag for birthday

The economic, cultural and digital value of the Sydney Opera House works out at $4.6 billion. Source: AAP IT'S a priceless national icon, but a new report has put a figure on what the Sydney Opera House means to Australia. The tourist magnet...

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US releasing $US1.6bn in Pakistan aid

THE US has quietly decided to release more than $US1.6 billion ($A1.66 billion) in military and economic aid to Pakistan that was suspended when relations between the two countries disintegrated over the covert raid that killed Osama bin Laden and...

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Calls for EU to address boat deaths

CALLS are intensifying for the European Union to prevent migrant deaths, with at least 400 people drowning in three Mediterranean Sea shipwrecks in just over a week. "I don't know how many more people need to die at sea before something gets done,"...

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Vic police commemorate Walsh St killings

THE pain of the Walsh Street killings is still raw in the minds of all Victorian police officers 25 years on, Chief Commissioner Ken Lay says. Constable Steven Tynan, 22, and Constable Damian Eyre, 20, were gunned down on October 12, 1988, after...

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Another extreme fire danger day for NSW

THE Rural Fire Service has issued a total fire ban for areas in NSW ahead of hot and gusty weather conditions. The bans will be in place on Sunday from the Illawarra to the Far North Coast as well as the North West and Central Ranges. An extreme...

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NSW father accidentally runs over child

A TODDLER is in hospital after his father accidentally ran over him with his car in the driveway of their home on NSW's north coast. Police said a 30-year-old man was moving his Holden Commodore when he reversed into his one-year-old son at...

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NZ bishop's prisoner prayer cell

THE Anglican Bishop of Wellington is to live a week in a small cabin-like "cell", praying for New Zealand's 8000-plus prisoners and their victims. Bishop Justin Duckworth's prayer vigil in the cell on the front steps of Wellington Cathedral...

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Boat sinks on Mali river, 20 dead

AT least 20 people are dead after a boat carrying hundreds of passengers capsized on the Niger River in central Mali. Dozens more are missing. Konna Mayor Sory Diakite told The Associated Press on Saturday 20 bodies had been recovered by midday....

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Obama expects borrowing limit increase

US President Barack Obama says he doesn't expect Congress to breach the deadline to increase the nation's borrowing limit. He says he's willing to negotiate changes to his signature health care law and to find ways to reduce spending, but stresses...

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US House votes to backpay govt workers

THE US House of Representatives has passed a bill to give 800,000 furloughed federal workers retroactive pay once the government reopens. The House passed the bill in a rare Saturday session. The vote was 407-0. The Senate was expected to OK...

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Greek Golden Dawn leader, MPs arrested

GREEK police have arrested the leader and other top officials of the anti-immigrant Golden Dawn party on charges of forming a criminal organisation. The arrests are an escalation of a government crackdown after a fatal stabbing allegedly committed...

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Tunisia's ruling Islamists to step down

TUNISIA'S governing Islamist party has agreed to step down following negotiations with opposition parties that begin next week. A spokesman for the main labour union said months of talks with the Islamist-led government had finally reached an...

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Greenpeace piracy probe worries parents

THE parents of a British journalist held in Russia for suspected piracy after a Greenpeace protest at an Arctic oil rig say they are extremely worried. A group of 30, including six Britons and Australian Colin Russell, were held last week when...

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Morocco crash leaves 16 royal guards dead

SIXTEEN members of Morocco's royal guards have died in a road accident as they were headed north on a bus to prepare for a visit by King Mohammed VI, medics say. The pre-dawn accident took place near Al-Hoceima in northern Morocco and wounded...

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Israel drone killed Sinai militants: group

AN Egyptian militant group says a strike that killed four of its members in the Sinai peninsula was Israeli. Ansar Beit al-Maqdis said four of its members belonging to Sinai Bedouin tribes had been killed by Israeli drones on Friday. Egypt's...

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Seven dead as bombers target Afghan cops

Matthews' favourite footy moments PREMIERSHIP player and coach Leigh Matthews looks back at some of his favourite footy moments throughout his AFL career. Lethal unsure 'to be proud or sad' LEIGH Matthews' Lions may have paved the way for...

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Sovereign wealth fund boasts 10.6% return

SOVEREIGN wealth fund China Investment Corp (CIC) has boasted a 10.6 per cent return on its global investment portfolio in 2012 according to the company's annual report. The rise is in marked contrast to the previous year when the fund suffered...

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Saudi man dies of MERS virus: ministry

A SAUDI man has died of the coronavirus MERS and another has contracted the virus, the health ministry says, bringing the kingdom's deaths from the virus to 39. The man, who had previously been diagnosed with the SARS-like virus, died in the...

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3 Swiss found dead with wreckage of plane

A WILDLIFE official says three Swiss nationals have been found dead along with the wreckage of their plane that went missing in Kenya. Paul Mbugua, the spokesman of the Kenya Wildlife Service, said on Saturday a KWS helicopter pilot involved...

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Bomber kills one in Somali hospital

A SOMALI police officer says a suicide car bomber has detonated explosives outside a Turkish hospital in Mogadishu killing at least one person and himself and wounding three others. Mohammed Abdi said on Saturday the bomber drove a mini-van...

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Pope calls for dialogue to resolve Brazil

Why Buddy will stay SHANE CRAWFORD: FOR most of the season I've been fairly fatalistic about Hawthorn's chances of keeping Lance Franklin. Mini devil needs a name SHE may grow up to be a predator but right now she is one cheeky little...

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Military judge deliberates in Manning case

A US military judge has begun deciding the fate of Army soldier Bradley Manning, who could face life in prison for giving thousands of pieces of classified military and diplomatic information to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks in one of the largest...

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$40,000 gold prize to those who enrol

ACTIVIST group GetUp! will give away $40,000 in gold in a bid to encourage people to enrol to vote in the upcoming federal election. GetUp! National Director Sam McLean said 1.4 million people eligible to vote weren't on the electoral role,...

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Pioneering journalist Helen Thomas dies

HELEN Thomas, a long-time White House correspondent and a pioneer for women in journalism, has died aged 92. A friend, Muriel Dobbin, says Thomas died at her apartment in Washington on Saturday morning. Dobbin says Thomas had been ill for a...

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Comedian Mel Smith dies in London

TRIBUTES have been paid to comedian Mel Smith after his death at the age of 60, with his sidekick Griff Rhys Jones describing him as someone who "inspired love and utter loyalty". The star of Alas Smith and Jones and Not the Nine O'Clock News...

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G20 sets growth and jobs priorities

THE G20 has agreed to make boosting growth and jobs, rather than deficit reduction, the short-term priority for the global economy as it battles to consolidate a "fragile and uneven" recovery. Finance chiefs from the G20 group of advanced and...

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Storms in China traps tourists, kill 69

AT least 100 tourists have been left trapped after a landslide cut off a road amid storms that have flooded rivers and triggered mudslides, killing at least 69 people in China. The tourists became trapped on Friday night in the northwest province...

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Two dead, 100 hurt as Soulik hits Taiwan

TYPHOON Soulik is battering Taiwan with torrential rain and powerful winds which have so far left two people dead and at least 100 injured. Roofs have been ripped from homes, debris and fallen trees litter streets and some areas are submerged...

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Russia awaits Snowden asylum request

RUSSIA is waiting on a promised request for asylum from fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden that risks straining relations with Washington. Snowden on Friday dramatically summoned activists to the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo...

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Islamists kill 42 in Nigeria school attack

GUNMEN believed to be Islamists from Nigeria's Boko Haram insurgent group killed 42 people, mostly students, in an attack on a secondary school in restive Yobe state, officials say. Eyewitnesses said some of the victims were burned alive in the...

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Retrial of Mubarak adjourned to August 17

A CAIRO court has adjourned to August 17 the retrial of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak over charges of corruption and involvement in the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that ousted him. Mubarak and his two sons, Alaa...

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Bus plunge from bridge kills 10 in Nepal

TEN people have been killed in central Nepal when a passenger bus plunged into a river. A child was among those killed when the bus skidded off a bridge into the Madhi River in Damauli, 150 kilometres west of Kathmandu. Police said 10 people...

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Karzai urges Taliban to 'fight enemies'

PRESIDENT Hamid Karzai has urged Taliban insurgents to fight Afghanistan's enemies, an apparent reference to Pakistan after an Afghan soldier died in border clashes with the Pakistani army. "Instead of killing their own people and destroying...

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Italian quake-hit town of Onna rebuilds

RECONSTRUCTION work funded by the German government has started on a 13th century church in Onna, a village in the central Italian region of Abruzzo that was destroyed by an earthquake four years ago. The 6.3-magnitude quake that hit the medieval...

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$100m Vic budget boost for Frankston line

TRAIN services are set to be more reliable on one of Melbourne's busiest rail services under a $100 million boost that will be part of this week's state budget, the government says. Premier Denis Napthine will on Sunday announce a cash injection...

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Pakistan officials visit hurt prisoner

PAKISTANI embassy officials have visited a hospital in north India where a Pakistani prisoner is in critical condition in the intensive care unit after being attacked by an Indian inmate. Convicted murderer Sanaullah Ranjay suffered multiple...

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Orthodox Christians mark 'Holy Fire' rite

THRONGS of Orthodox Christians have filled Jerusalem's ancient Church of the Holy Sepulchre and surrounding streets for the "Holy Fire" ceremony on the eve of Orthodox Easter. Believers hold that a divine fire from heaven ignites candles held...

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At least 62 bodies found: Syria watchdog

THE bodies of at least 62 murdered residents have been found in a Sunni neighbourhood of the Syrian city of Banias, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says. "The bodies of dozens of citizens killed on Friday during an assault by the army...

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