Albania buries exiled king's remains

ALBANIA'S top leaders and thousands of people have paid their last respect to the country's only post-independence monarch, King Ahmet Zog I, half a century after he died and was buried in exile. The nation's television stations on Saturday...

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New Syrian envoy to France named

FRENCH President Francois Hollande and the new Syrian opposition leader have announced plans to install an ambassador to represent Syria in France. The surprise move came after talks at France's presidential palace between Hollande and Moaz...

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Mali's north tense after Tuareg offensive

AL-QAEDA-LINKED fighters have gathered reinforcements in the tense Gao region of northeastern Mali and are waiting to see if the Tuareg rebels that launched a failed offensive a day earlier would regroup for a fresh assault. The desert area of...

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49 children killed in Egypt bus tragedy

AT least 49 nursery school children have been killed when a train smashed into their bus in central Egypt after a railway signal operator fell asleep, officials say, prompting protests and resignations. Transport Minister Rashad al-Metini stepped...

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ASEAN urges China 'hotline' over sea row

SOUTHEAST Asian nations will propose opening a "hotline" with China aimed at defusing tensions over the South China Sea, ASEAN's chief says. Surin Pitsuwan, secretary-general of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, said after...

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Sirens go off in Tel Aviv, 1 dead in Gaza

AIR raid sirens have gone off in Tel Aviv for a third day running, sending people scuttling for cover as TV images showed the Iron Dome anti-missile system firing on an incoming rocket. AFP correspondents at the scene on Saturday said people...

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Obama heads for Asia with stop in Myanmar

PRESIDENT Barack Obama heads to Asia for a tour of three countries on his first foreign trip since winning re-election that will see him make a once unthinkable stop in Myanmar (Burma). The first trip by a US president spent entirely in Southeast...

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Girl missing, feared taken by croc in NT

IT is feared that a young girl has been taken by a crocodile, after she went missing while swimming in a waterhole in the Northern Territory. The girl, believed to be aged between seven and 11, was swimming with a group of people in a local...

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Petraeus testifies for Congress on Libya

FORMER CIA Director David Petraeus has been sneaked into the Capitol, away from photographers and television cameras, to face lawmakers' questions for the first time about the deadly attack on the US Consulate in Libya - just a week after he resigned...

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Allegations church kept priest sex files

THE psychosexual profiles of priests accused of sexual abuse have reportedly been kept by the Australian Catholic church. The profiles were allegedly created as part of a church rehabilitation program - Encompass Australasia - which ran from...

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Ukraine's Tymoshenko in 'increased pain'

JAILED Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko is in "increased pain" following her two-week hunger strike, but is too weak to receive full-scale treatment, her doctor says. The former prime minister took her first sips of fruit juice late...

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Bomb kills 17 Afghans on way to wedding

A ROADSIDE bomb planted by Taliban insurgents has killed 17 civilians - mostly women and children - on their way to a wedding party in western Afghanistan, officials say. The victims were travelling in a minibus from one village to another for...

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Air raid sirens wail in Jerusalem

AIR raid sirens are wailing across Jerusalem as press reports speak of three blasts in the city, just hours after a rocket fired by militants in Gaza landed in the sea off Tel Aviv. There was no immediate comment from Israeli police or the army,...

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Indians protest over Irish abortion row

ABOUT a hundred opposition protesters have held a demonstration outside the Irish embassy over the death of an Indian woman who died after being refused an abortion in the Catholic country. The crowd, carrying posters of the dead 31-year-old dentist,...

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Israel to take 'whatever action necessary'

ISRAEL will take "whatever action is necessary" to defend its citizens from Palestinian rocket attacks, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says. His remarks at a televised press conference in Tel Aviv on Thursday came after Israel carried out...

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Christchurch's Victoria Square to reopen

A WALK through Christchurch's Victoria Square will be possible for the first time since the February 2011 earthquake when the red zone is reduced on Friday. The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority says pedestrians will be able to access...

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US jobless claims soar after Superstorm

US weekly jobless claims jumped by 78,000 in one week in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, which both interrupted reporting and forced people out of work in the northeast, Labor Department data shows. New claims for unemployment insurance, a signal...

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Only nine nations own Twitter handles

ONLY nine out of 193 UN member states own Twitter accounts bearing their country name, and only three of those accounts have been officially verified by the micro-blogging site, according to a new report. In "Twiplomacy", a study looking at country...

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McDonald's axes US boss after sales dip

MCDONALD'S is replacing its head of US operations after the world's biggest burger chain reported its first monthly sales decline in nearly a decade. The company, based in Oak Brook, Illinois, says its global chief restaurant officer, Jeff Stratton,...

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Parents slam Irish abortion laws

THE parents of an Indian woman who suffered a miscarriage and died after being refused an abortion in an Irish hospital have slammed the country's abortion laws. Savita Halappanavar was 17 weeks pregnant when she miscarried and died last month....

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US shares open higher, Walmart sheds 4%

US stocks have edged higher after a sharp fall the previous day, with Walmart's disappointing revenues in its third quarter report sending its shares down more than four per cent. In the first five minutes of Thursday trade, the Dow Jones Industrial...

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CSG study raises questions: green groups

A NEW study into methane levels around coal seam gas mining in Queensland shows the industry in a "whole new light", suggesting it's not as clean as it claims, environmental campaigners say. In an attempt to measure the effects of CSG mining on...

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US retail sales dip in October

A DROP in car sales pushed US retail sales lower in October after a strong gain in September, government data shows. Retail sales fell 0.3 per cent, the Commerce Department reported on Wednesday, slightly more than analysts expected. It upwardly...

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Clashes erupt in European protests

RIOT police and anti-austerity protesters have clashed in Spain and Italy as anger boils over on a Europe-wide day of strikes and mass demonstrations. General strikes in Spain and Portugal paralysed swathes of industry and hit road, rail and air...

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Cisco results boost US stocks at open

ANALYST-BEATING quarterly results from Cisco Systems have given US stocks a solid opening boost, following two listless sessions. Five minutes into Wednesday trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 34.81 points (0.27 per cent) at 12,790.99....

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Hamas commander killed in air strike

SENIOR Hamas military commander Ahmed al-Jaabari was killed in an Israeli air strike on a car in Gaza City overnight. "The martyr is Ahmed al-Jaabari and his bodyguard was injured," Ayman Sahabani, a doctor at Shifa hospital in Gaza City, told...

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Iraq blasts kill 19

A SPATE of apparently coordinated attacks across Iraq on the eve of a festival marking the Islamic New Year have killed 19 people and wounded more than 150 others. The 13 bombings and shootings struck in Baghdad and nine other cities, the security...

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US producer prices dip in October

US producer prices fell in October after four straight months of rises, officials say. The US Labor Department said on Wednesday the producer price index fell 0.2 per cent from September, led by a drop in energy prices of 0.5 per cent. Food...

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Up to three feared missing in western NSW

A SEARCH for up to three people feared missing in a national park in western NSW is set to resume at first light, with police warning they may be very difficult to find. Police said a woman called Triple Zero about 12pm (AEDT) on Tuesday, saying...

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Italy's inflation slows in October

ITALY'S inflation slowed in October to a rate of 2.6 per cent from 3.2 per cent in September, official data from Italy's statistics agency shows, confirming previous estimates. The slowdown was due partly to seasonal effects for various goods and...

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NYC's Christmas tree survived Sandy

THE Christmas tree that will dominate New York's Rockefeller Center survived the winds of Superstorm Sandy that left a path of destruction in a New Jersey town and even its donor without electricity for weeks. Joe Balku, 76, learned that the...

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Myanmar quake toll 26: Red Cross

THE Red Cross says the death toll has risen to 26 from an earthquake that damaged homes and ancient Buddhist pagodas in northern Myanmar. The Red Cross said in a statement on Tuesday another 231 people were hurt in Sunday's magnitude-6.8 quake...

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Clinton applauds Asia white paper

UNITED States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has applauded the federal government's strategic white paper on Asian policy and welcomed Australian-Indian naval vessel exercises in the future. Mrs Clinton is in Perth for the annual Australia-United...

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US stocks slide on Greece, US worries

US stocks have sunk in opening trade amid worries about Greece's debt crisis and a US "fiscal cliff" of spending cuts and tax hikes at year-end expected to drag the economy into recession. In the first five minutes of Tuesday trade, the Dow...

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French aristocrat swindler gets 8 years

AN alleged modern-day Rasputin has been convicted of brainwashing three generations of an aristocratic French family for nearly a decade, swindling them of their fortune and their turreted manor. Thierry Tilly, who was sentenced to eight years...

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Final IBAC bills in Vic parliament

A GOVERNMENT-APPOINTED Victorian inspector will be able to sit in on witness examinations and be privy to material uncovered in investigations by the ombudsman and the state's new anti-corruption commission. The final pieces of legislation in...

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Sica allegedly had sex with nine-year-old

A NINE-year-old girl started documenting her almost four-year intimate sexual relationship with convicted triple murderer Massimo "Max" Sica in a series of coded diary entries, a court has been told. Brisbane District Court judge Michael Shanahan...

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Gaddafi's ex-PM faces Libyan judges

MUAMMAR Gaddafi's last prime minister has become the highest ranking former regime official to go before Libyan judges, in a brief but sullen court appearance. Dressed in a traditional white robe and brown vest, Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi sat in...

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Israel army in direct hit on Syria source

ISRAELI troops have fired tank shells into Syria in retaliation for a mortar round that struck near an army post in the Golan Heights, scoring "direct hits" on the source of the fire, the army says. "A short while ago, a mortar shell hit an...

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Toyota tests cars that communicate

TOYOTA Motor Cop. is testing car safety systems that allow vehicles to communicate with each other and with the roads they are on in a just completed facility in Japan the size of three baseball stadiums. The cars at the Intelligent Transport...

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Two charged over NSW child sex assaults

A CATHOLIC brother and a former Catholic teacher have been charged in NSW over alleged assaults on children dating back to the 1980s. Sex Crimes Squad detectives investigating allegations of abuse on an eight-year-old girl in 1985 and two 13-year-old...

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US stocks rise on China trade data

US stocks have opened with modest gains after last week's slump, lifted by encouraging China trade data that signalled renewed momentum in the economy and solid earnings from a key US homebuilder. In the first five minutes of trade on Monday,...

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Boat reported missing off NSW coast

A SEARCH is to resume at first light on Monday for a boat feared to have sunk off Wollongong. Police were called to Wollongong Harbour at 6pm (AEDT) on Sunday after witnesses reported seeing a small boat that appeared to be sinking and two people...

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Inquiry to see list of pedophile priests

A VICTIMS group on Monday will present to the Victorian government inquiry into sex abuse by priests a list of 18 convicted pedophile priests who were moved from parish to parish or further away, where they continued offending. Helen Last of...

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BBC trust head calls for radical overhaul

THE head of the BBC's governing body says the broadcaster needs a radical overhaul following the resignation of its chief executive in the wake of a scandal over a botched report on child sex-abuse allegations. Chris Patten vowed on Sunday to...

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Order implicated in abuse scandal

A PSYCHOLOGIST who met dozens of child abuse victims claims three quarters of the Brothers from the St John of God order were suspected to be involved in the scandal. Michelle Mulvihill has also told Fairfax that Catholic Archbishop of Sydney...

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EgyptAir stewardesses begin wearing hijab

EGYPTAIR stewardesses who campaigned to wear the Muslim headscarf have begun donning the hijab for the first time since the national carrier was founded in 1932, a company official says. The first flight attendants dressed in the hijab, which...

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French gunman's brother blames parents

THE radicalisation of the French gunman who killed seven people on an eight-day shooting spree this year began at home, his brother recounts in a new book and documentary, according to media reports. Mohamed Merah killed three Jewish children,...

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NATO soldier dies in Afghan insider attack

A NATO-LED soldier fighting insurgents in Afghanistan has been shot dead by a man in an Afghan army uniform in southern Afghanistan, the latest in a series of "insider" attacks, the alliance says. "I can confirm that an individual wearing Afghan...

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