1:00 AM AEDT | 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.
1:00 AM AEDT | REYKJAVIK: Polar bears that drift ashore on Iceland should be shot and not offered a safe haven, a commission has recommended.
1:00 AM AEDT | 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.
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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.
2/12/2008 | Embattled MPs in Thailand's ruling three-party coalition Government are vowing to remain united if the country's Constitutional Court dissolves the Government for electoral fraud after a hearing today.
2/12/2008 | President-elect Barack Obama says he will welcome strong opinions and differing viewpoints from his national security team, saying he appointed his "team of rivals" because they shared his broad vision, but would not necessarily agree on tactics or strategies to deal with world issues.
2/12/2008 | AUSTRALIAN travellers caught up in anti-Government protests in Bangkok last week are expected to start arriving in Sydney tonight via Singapore.
2/12/2008 | THE most senior surviving Chinese leader to have been purged in the wake the Tiananmen massacre will today call for the Communist Party to return to "open and democratic decision making" as personified by two other purged leaders, Zhao Ziyang and Hu Yaobang.
2/12/2008 | Mumbai is awash with contradictoy rumours about last week's terrorist attack. One mystery is how the terrorists communicated with each other. It has been widely reported the gang kept in touch wit...
2/12/2008 | SEVEN busloads of stranded Australians, some of them distressed, left Bangkok for a 14-hour road journey to the southern resort island of Phuket yesterday where a Qantas plane was waiting to fly them ...
2/12/2008 | ABC foreign correspondent Peter Lloyd will discover his fate today after being caught earlier this year in possession of a small amount of methamphetamine or "ice" in Singapore, the island state famous for its hardline stance against drugs.
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