Cold War arms deal stalls
US plans for a missile defence system are the main obstacle to reaching a new deal on reducing Cold War arsenals of nuclear weapons, says Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.Bushfire tears through WA
Up to 40 homes could have been destroyed by a bushfire burning out of control north of Perth.
Obama admits 'systemic failure'
Barack Obama has admitted "systemic failure" in connection with the failed attack on a passenger plane on Christmas Day.
Spain raises terror alert
Spain's has raised its anti-terror alert level to two to reflect the risk of possible attacks ahead of Madrid taking over the European Union Presidency on January 1.
Hmong refugees returned to Laos
Thai troops have completed the repatriation of more than 4000 ethnic Hmong to Laos, amid criticism by the United States and other nations fearing that the returnees could face persecution by the Laotian government.
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An Aussie news agency takes a long look at what it says are our quirks and foibles in 2009.
Southland duo cheat death
A former Southland couple had a nightmare end to their Christmas celebrations.
Man shot dead by Australian police
Man killed in front of kids
'Vigorous drumming' sparks anthrax fears
A US woman diagnosed with a rare gastrointestinal anthrax case may have swallowed spores propelled into the air by vigorous drumming, a state health expert said.
Girl, 11, sets fire to mother's bed
An 11-year-old Florida girl and her 15-year-old boyfriend are accused of plotting to kill the girl's mother by setting her bedroom on fire while the woman was asleep.
Animal cruelty-accused claims set-up
Bomber's singed underwear revealed
Needle toddler 'out of danger'
Brazilian doctors have decided not to immediately more needles from the 42 found in a toddler's body, because his life is no longer in danger.
Facebook fugitive taunts police
An escaped British prisoner is taunting police and attracting a growing Internet fan base from his Facebook profile.
Church abuse links sought
Victims of clergy sex abuse and a group that tracks paedophile priests are asking church leaders and the Irish government to publicly detail known connections between abuse scandals in the US and Ireland.
Thawing in Russia-Georgia relations
Makeshift bomb explodes in Athens
China executes British smuggler
China has brushed aside international pleas and executed by lethal injection a British drug smuggler who relatives say was mentally unstable and unwittingly lured into crime.
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Iran holds protesters' bodies
Iranian authorities are holding the bodies of five slain anti-government protesters, including the nephew of the opposition leader, in an attempt to prevent activists using their funerals as a platform for more demonstrations.
Jewish homes planned for West Bank
Israel announced plans on Monday to build nearly 700 new homes for Jews in areas of the occupied West Bank it considers part of Jerusalem, a city it has excluded from a limited moratorium on settlement construction.
Gaddafi's son lands in Queenstown
Deaths in Iran street protests
Iran warns UK of 'slap in the mouth'
A representative of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says opposition leaders are "enemies of God" who should be executed under the country's sharia law.
Call for calm in wake of bombing
Pakistan's interior minister appealed for calm on Tuesday in the country's commercial capital Karachi, where shopowners surveyed gutted premises a day after a suicide bomber killed 43 people and triggered a city-centre riot.
China executes British smuggler
China has brushed aside international pleas and executed by lethal injection a British drug smuggler who relatives say was mentally unstable and unwittingly lured into crime.
Bomber kills 30
Bomb kills eight in Pakistan
N Korea confirms US detainee
North Korea says it has detained a US citizen, apparently confirming a report an activist crossed into the state to raise awareness about human rights abuses.
38 dead in Nigeria fighting
Fighting between Islamic militants and security forces in northern Nigeria has left at least 38 people dead, as sect members armed with spears, knives, assault rifles and arrows ransacked a neighbourhood and set homes ablaze.
Zimbabwe's Nestle plant shut
Nestle SA, the world's biggest food and drink company, says it has temporarily closed its production site in the Zimbabwe capital because employee security is no longer guaranteed.
S Africa slams Copenhagen result
Aid appeal after Malawi quake
South African poet dies
South African poet and former political prisoner Dennis Brutus, who fought apartheid in words and deeds and remained an activist well after the fall of his country's racist system, has died. He was 85.
Whangamata beauty takes top prize
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Attempted breakout by Auckland prisoners foiled
Girl, 11, sets fire to mother's bed
'Autistic' hacker faces 25 years
Steep bill for first 2011 Rugby World Cup tickets
Sea voyage a 'binding experience'
Tiger Woods scandal to be TV movie
Couple slam humiliating mortgagee sale process
Publican slams Hamilton booze culture
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