Japan wins spot in mega trade pact

JAPAN has won its bid to enter talks on a massive Pacific trade pact that includes Australia. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would account for more than 40 per cent of the global economy. Japan had to win over Canada to be included in the...

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120 dead, thousands injured in China quake

Hundreds of people are dead or injured after a 6.6 magnitude earthquake in China's Sichuan province. Source: AAP MORE than 120 people were killed and 3,000 injured when a strong earthquake hit a mountainous part of southwestern China destroying...

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China quake toll up to 113

The number of people killed in the Chinese earthquake has risen to 113, with at least 2,600 injured. Source: AAP THE earthquake that has struck the steep hills of China's southwestern Sichuan province has left at least 113 people dead and more...

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Female suicide bomber kills 4 in Pakistan

A female suicide bomber has blown herself up outside a hospital in Pakistan, killing four people. Source: AAP A FEMALE suicide bomber has blown herself up outside a hospital in a lawless tribal area of northwest Pakistan, killing at least...

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Man arrested over India girl's brutal rape

The kidnapping and brutal rape of a five-year-old Indian girl has triggered protests across India. Source: AAP A FIVE-YEAR-OLD Indian girl who was abducted, raped and tortured in New Delhi was alert and stable, doctors said, as fresh protests...

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Taliban attack kills 13 Afghan police

Taliban insurgents killed 13 local policemen in an attack on a checkpoint in southeast Afghanistan. Source: AAP TALIBAN insurgents killed 13 local policemen while they were sleeping, in an attack on their checkpoint in southeast Afghanistan,...

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Alleged Sydney Town Hall stabber caught

A MAN and a woman have been charged over the stabbing and robbery of a woman at Sydney's Town Hall Station late last year. A 27-year-old woman was in the station's toilets when she was threatened and ordered to hand over money by another woman...

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Boston lockdown as manhunt goes on

The entire city of Boston is on lockdown as police search for the surviving marathon bomber suspect. Source: AAP ONE of the Boston marathon bombing suspects was killed in a shootout early on Friday as police raced on a house-to-house search...

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Attacks kill 9 worshippers in Iraq

MORTAR fire and bombs targeting worshippers killed nine people and wounded 29 others on Friday in two attacks north of Baghdad shortly after noon prayers. The new violence came a day after a suicide bombing attack on a Baghdad cafe that killed...

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NSW escapee captured - two still at large

POLICE have captured one of the three prisoners who escaped from a NSW jail earlier this month. Officers were tipped off that Reegan Freeburn, 24, was at a house in South Grafton. He was arrested and refused bail to appear in Grafton Local...

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BMW head defends E-Mobility strategy

BMW boss Norbert Reithofer has defended his company's costly entry into the electric car market. Source: AAP BMW boss Norbert Reithofer has defended his company's costly entry into the electric car market, despite signs that German motorists...

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Bid to halt mass meat recall fails

A DUTCH court has rejected a meat wholesaler's bid to quash an order recalling 50,000 tonnes of beef potentially contaminated with horsemeat. "The court rejects the request for a preliminary injunction," on Dutch food authority NVWA's recall of...

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Afghan security deteriorating: Red Cross

THE International Committee of the Red Cross warns that security is deteriorating across Afghanistan as militants flood the battlefield and conduct attacks in what could be the most defining spring fighting season of the nearly 12-year-old war. ...

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Arrests following Greek mass shooting

TWO men have been arrested in Greece after foremen for strawberry growers allegedly shot and wounded 27 migrant labourers who were demanding to be paid, police said. The migrants, mainly from Bangladesh, were hospitalised in the western port of...

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Sun editor charged with conspiracy

THE executive editor of The Sun newspaper has been charged in an ongoing British police investigation of phone hacking and corruption. Prosecutors said on Thursday Fergus Shanahan has been charged with "conspiring to commit misconduct in public...

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Putin foe Navalny goes on trial in Russia

The trial of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on embezzlement charges has been adjounred. Source: AAP RUSSIAN opposition leader Alexei Navalny has gone on trial on charges he says were ordered by President Vladimir Putin to eliminate...

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Trial begins over faulty breast implants

Four executives and the founder of PIP are in court over the sale of faulty breast implants. Source: AAP FRANCE has launched one of its biggest-ever trials as five managers from company PIP faced charges of selling faulty breast implants that...

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Rocket attack kills 12 in central Syria

A GOVERNMENT rocket attack has killed at least 12 people in a village in central Syria, while rebels battled regime forces over two key military bases in the northeast where government troops broke an opposition siege last week, activists said. ...

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Britain bids farewell to Margaret Thatcher

Britain will pay its final respects to Baroness Thatcher at Wednesday's funeral. Source: AAP THOUSANDS of well-wishers have applauded Margaret Thatcher's coffin as it passed through the streets of London before a funeral filled with pomp and...

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Vic protesters rally at community cabinet

MELBOURNE April 17 AAP - More than 100 protesters rallying against live animal exports have sought to leave their stamp on an otherwise subdued federal community cabinet meeting in the marginal Melbourne Labor seat of Deakin. The noisy protest,...

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Investigators hunt clues in Boston blasts

Two people were killed and dozens injured in explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Source: AAP A MASSIVE investigation is underway after two bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon, killing at least three and wounding more than...

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Whistleblower seeks help from NSW premier

A policeman who exposed alleged child sexual abuse by priests wants the NSW premier to step in. Source: AAP A SENIOR policeman who says he won't be protected under whistleblower laws after he exposed alleged child abuse by Catholic priests...

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Asylum granted to dictator's son-in-law

THE Seychelles have granted a year's asylum to the son-in-law of Tunisia's deposed dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, officials say. Sakhr El Materi, who was convicted in absentia of corruption by a Tunisian court, appealed for asylum in the Indian...

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EU court stops extradition of UK Islamist

THE European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the extradition from Britain of a mentally ill man who is wanted by US authorities for conspiring to establish an Islamist militant training camp in Oregon. A seven-judge panel which examined...

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At least 16 killed in Ghana mine collapse

A MINE collapse in Ghana's central gold-producing region has killed 16 people who were working illegally and had been told to leave by the operator, police say. "They retrieved 16 bodies," area police commander William Otu said of Monday's disaster...

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Protected anteaters found on Chinese boat

Hundreds of anteaters have been found on a Chinese boat that ran aground in the Philippines. Source: AAP THE Philippine coast guard says it has found hundreds of frozen scaly anteaters, or pangolins, in the cargo hold of a Chinese boat that...

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Policies unaffected by hunger strikes: PM

PM Julia Gillard says asylum seekers on hunger strike won't succeed in pressuring the government. Source: AAP PRIME Minister Julia Gillard says asylum seekers going on hunger strike won't succeed in pressuring the government to change its...

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Pope backs report critical of US nuns

POPE Francis has backed a doctrinal report drawn up under his predecessor Benedict XVI that accuses the largest group of nuns in the United States of holding "radical feminist" views, the Vatican says. The new Pope has "reaffirmed the findings...

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Kuwaiti MP jailed for 'insulting' emir

A KUWAITI court has sentenced key opposition leader Mussallam al-Barrak to five years in prison for insulting the emir, in a ruling likely to breathe new life into a flagging protest movement. Barrak, a nationalist former MP, was charged with...

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Suspended term in Turkish blasphemy case

AN Istanbul court has slapped world-renowned pianist Fazil Say with a 10-month suspended jail term for blasphemy, the latest in a series of cases to raise eyebrows about Turkey's dismal record on freedom of speech. The court handed down the sentence...

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First South Sudan oil reaches Sudan

SUDAN'S oil ministry says the first crude from South Sudan has reached its territory, bringing both impoverished countries closer to billions of dollars in revenue after a dispute over fees. "The first batch of oil already arrived on Sudanese...

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Unknown fault 'caused latest Japan quake'

A previously unknown active fault may have caused the magnitude-6.3 earthquake in western Japan. Source: AAP A PREVIOUSLY unknown active fault may have caused the magnitude-6.3 earthquake in western Japan this weekend, a government committee...

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Brits opposed to paying for funeral: poll

Sixty per cent of Britons are against the government paying millions to Margaret Thatcher's funeral. Source: AAP SIXTY per cent of Britons are opposed to taxpayers contributing millions of pounds to Margaret Thatcher's funeral, a new poll...

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Murder-accused Pistorius seen partying

SOUTH African Paralympian sprint star Oscar Pistorius was spotted partying last weekend at a trendy Johannesburg hangout, his first outing with friends since his arrest for the Valentine's Day killing of his girlfriend, media reports say. According...

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Thatcher's supporters plan UK museum

ADMIRERS of late British prime minister Margaret Thatcher are planning to create a new library and museum in London to celebrate her legacy and shape the future of conservative politics. Backers revealed late on Saturday that they aim to raise...

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