1:00 AM AEDT | ZIMBABWE has declared a national emergency and appealed for international aid to tackle a cholera outbreak that has claimed 565 lives.
1:00 AM AEDT | WASHINGTON: An investigation by the US Congress on weapons of mass destruction has predicted that terrorists will mount an attack using biological or nuclear weapons within five years.
1:00 AM AEDT | CHINA'S industrial economy appears to have skidded to a new low last month, with power production suffering the sharpest drop since the beginning of reforms 30 years ago.
1:00 AM AEDT | THE main Indian airports were on high alert last night after intelligence warnings that India may be the target of a fresh airborne terrorist attack following the assault on Mumbai last week.
1:00 AM AEDT | INDONESIAN police say they have smashed a people-smuggling ring and arrested the kingpin of the syndicate responsible for sending rickety vessels laden with asylum-seekers on the perilous journey to Australia.
1:00 AM AEDT | Iraqi terrorists know no limits, writes Martin Chulov in Baghdad.
1:00 AM AEDT | MILLIONS of Thais were disappointed last night when King Bhumibol Aduladej failed to read an address to the nation on the eve of his birthday.
4/12/2008 | ANTI-GOVERNMENT protesters ended an eight-day siege of Bangkok's two airports yesterday but warned of more crippling protests if ruling MPs form a new government.
4/12/2008 | REYKJAVIK: Polar bears that drift ashore on Iceland should be shot and not offered a safe haven, a commission has recommended.
4/12/2008 | THE Pakistan President, Asif Ali Zardari, has risked worsening his nation's stand-off with India by indicating it will not comply with demands to hand over 20 terrorism suspects following the Mumbai attacks.
3/12/2008 | There is something about Hillary Clinton. When she enters a room she fills the space, even when she shares it with the president-elect.
3/12/2008 | THAILAND'S main ruling party has been dismissed and the Prime Minister, Somchai Wongsawat, banned from politics for five years for electoral fraud in a dramatic turn in the country's increasingly bloody political crisis.
3/12/2008 | Walking through Paddy's Markets many years ago, I heard a sound like a gunshot and hit the dirt. An embarrassed boyfriend angrily pulled me up. I had just returned from the mayhem that was Belfast...
3/12/2008 | INDONESIAN prosecutors yesterday asked for a prison sentence of 15 years for the intelligence operative and former Kopassus commander Muchdi Purwopranjano, who they allege organised the assassination by arsenic poisoning of a prominent human rights activist.
3/12/2008 | RESHMA and Sunil Parekh were among the first to die when gunmen forced their way into the Tiffin restaurant at Oberoi Hotel in Mumbai, but it was 44 hours before their family in Sydney had confirmation of the terrible news.
3/12/2008 | THE honeymooners arrived home five days late but their ordeal was less drastic than that of other Australians, who endured extortion and bruising and paid bribes to escape Thailand.
3/12/2008 | THERE was a good crowd at Leopold Cafe on Monday night despite bullet holes in the walls and damage to the floor left by a grenade.
3/12/2008 | THE journalist Peter Lloyd has lost his job at the ABC after pleading guilty yesterday to three drugs charges, including the possession of "ice". He will spend the next 10 months in a communal cell in Singapore's Changi prison, sleeping on a straw mat on a concrete floor.
3/12/2008 | JENNIFER CLARKE'S honeymoon ended in an "unbelievable nightmare" - she and her husband stranded in the seedy Thai city of Pattaya with 70 other Australians.
2/12/2008 | ABC foreign correspondent Peter Lloyd has been sentenced to 10 months in a Singapore prison after being caught in possession of a small amount of methamphetamine or ``ice'' in the island state famous for its hardline stance against drugs.
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