04 Sep 10 | Divers who found what is believed to be the world's oldest drinkable champagne say they have also discovered two-centuries-old bottles of beer at the site of a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea.
04 Sep 10 | Philippine police decided against shooting a sacked colleague who hijacked a tourist bus because they wanted to ''save'' him along with his Hong Kong hostages, an inquiry into the fiasco was told yesterday.
04 Sep 10 | People power is subverting the Republican establishment, writes Simon Mann in Washington.
04 Sep 10 | ROME: A Europe-wide backlash against Gypsies gathered pace as Rome began demolishing shanty settlements.
04 Sep 10 | WASHINGTON: BP has warned US Congress that if legislation is passed barring the company from getting new offshore drilling permits, it may not have the money to pay for all the damages caused by its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
04 Sep 10 | The yearning for silence amid London's incessant bustle has led to increasingly frequent weekend forays into the English countryside, a world redolent with images from stories read in bed as little children. Weeping willows, rolling meadows and ancient stone walls, brooks that really do babble and chatter, and wee groves made for Famous Five-style picnics complete with strawberries and lashings of cream.
04 Sep 10 | WASHINGTON: The leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority have agreed to a timetable for talks that would seek to narrow their differences and commit to overcoming the weight of history.
04 Sep 10 | But the tabloid is facing serious allegations of its own, writes Paola Totaro in London.
04 Sep 10 | THERE is nothing a like a visit to the southern West Bank city of Hebron to dispel any hopes of a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
04 Sep 10 | LONG-TERM use of drugs prescribed for osteoporosis may be doubling the users' risk of developing cancer of the oesophagus, a study warns.
04 Sep 10 | CHINA plans to extend its reach into Antarctica - by building a new ice-breaker ship, purchasing a plane and helicopters and upgrading its base into a year-round facility - in line with its rapidly expanding global profile.
04 Sep 10 | KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has formed a taskforce to scour the internet for blog postings deemed harmful to national unity, in the latest action against new media.
04 Sep 10 | LISBON: A child sex abuse trial that has lasted almost six years entered its last day after producing chilling testimony from dozens of alleged victims, shaking public trust in Portugal's institutions.
04 Sep 10 | The response of Chinese leaders is to tighten hardline policies further, writes John Garnaut.
03 Sep 10 | One of the trapped Chilean miners is going to have some explaining to do after his wife ran into his mistress at the mine's entrance.
03 Sep 10 | Israeli and Palestinian leaders launched their first direct negotiations in 20 months, agreeing to meet every two weeks in a bid to reach a lasting peace settlement within a year.
03 Sep 10 | A shark attack in a remote area of the Solomon Islands has left an Australian man with severe cuts to his face and neck.
03 Sep 10 | An oil platform explosion on Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico forced the crew to jump into the sea and threatened further damage to waters still recovering from the BP disaster. It was the second such disaster in the Gulf, but this time there was no leak and no one was killed.
03 Sep 10 | American Nancy Kissel, who won a retrial in the killing of her high-flying investment banker husband, will ask a Hong Kong court to dismiss the charges and set her free, her lawyer said on Thursday.
03 Sep 10 | A Detroit-area woman who was removed from a US jury for commenting about the ongoing case on Facebook has a longer writing task ahead: a five-page essay about the constitutional right to a fair trial.
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