08 Sep 10 | John Lennon's killer has again been denied parole in New York, nearly 30 years after gunning down the ex-Beatle outside the musician's New York City apartment building.
08 Sep 10 | French trade unions have claimed the biggest national demonstration in a decade after more than a million people took to the streets in protest against President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to raise the retirement age to 62.
08 Sep 10 | A Finnish court will hear a sexual molestation case against a doctor who says he sucked a patient's nipple to diagnose a medical problem in accordance with an old midwives' trick.
08 Sep 10 | A Florida evangelical church has vowed to go ahead with plans to burn the Koran on the 9/11 anniversary, despite fears it may fuel an angry backlash and endanger US and allied troops in Afghanistan.
08 Sep 10 | A WikiLeaks insider has challenged claims that co-founder Julian Assange is at threat of being booted due to his well-publicised rape charges in Sweden.
08 Sep 10 | SHANGHAI: China is to sign a $US2 billion ($2.2 billion) deal to build a railway line in Iran in the first step of a wider plan to tie the Middle East and Central Asia to Beijing.
08 Sep 10 | CHRISTCHURCH: Geologists warn that another earthquake could hit the region in coming days as a sharp series of about 20 aftershocks rattled New Zealand's second-largest city overnight. A quake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale hit the North Island yesterday morning.
08 Sep 10 | COPIAPO: Family members living at the makeshift camp near the Chilean mine where 33 men are trapped have been admonished for having too much fun.
08 Sep 10 | BEIRUT: Iran has produced more than enough nuclear fuel to power two atomic warheads if it were to further enrich its supply and disregard its treaty obligations, a report issued by the world's atomic energy watchdog says.
08 Sep 10 | ROME: Hundreds of Italian shepherds rallied with their flocks in Rome to protest against low dairy prices and the alleged production in Romania of pecorino cheese with a ''Made in Italy'' label.
08 Sep 10 | JERUSALEM: Israel will in effect extend a freeze on new Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank in an attempt to keep alive the fledgling peace talks with the Palestinians, while avoiding a clash with ultra-nationalists in the coalition cabinet.
08 Sep 10 | MADRID: The Northern Ireland politician Gerry Adams said his party had been heavily involved in pushing the Basque separatist group ETA towards calling a ceasefire at the weekend.
08 Sep 10 | SEOUL: North Korean ruling party officials are arriving in Pyongyang, signalling an imminent meeting that outsiders describe as a critical step in a hereditary transfer of power by the leader, Kim Jong-il.
08 Sep 10 | BENEDICT JOR, the 20-year-old castaway, survived on coconuts, bananas and the fish he caught for three weeks before his tiny fishing craft was spotted drifting in the Saint Andrew Strait off the PNG coast.
08 Sep 10 | THE sniff of a new revolution was in the air yesterday as thousands of French workers downed tools and took to the streets in protest against government demands that they work harder - and longer - to age 62.
07 Sep 10 | The world is facing a mass extinction event that could be greater than that of the dinosaurs, new research shows.
07 Sep 10 | Smelly feet may be the price we have to pay for saving the planet.
07 Sep 10 | The adult son of an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery says he fears she will be executed shortly after this week's end to the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
07 Sep 10 | US President Barack Obama unveiled plans on Monday to spend at least $US50 billion ($55 billion) to expand and renew US roads, railways and airports, in a fresh bid to fire up sluggish economic growth.
07 Sep 10 | London's Metropolitan Police will examine new evidence of phone-hacking by journalists at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World newspaper detailed in a report in the New York Times.
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