White House impostors met Obama

Impostors met Obama

The couple who crashed a White House dinner actually managed to get face-to-face with President Barack Obama.

22 dead in train derailment

An express train carrying hundreds of passengers from Moscow to St Petersburg derailed late Friday, killing at least 22 people and injuring dozens of others, emergency officials said.

Rudd picks up some luck

AAP

Kevin Rudd has a new nickname: "One of the Luckiest Men in the Entire World".

Sarkozy gatecrashes Chogm

By MARTIN KAY in Port of Spain - The Dominion Post

Pressure is mounting on Commonwealth leaders to make an international deal on climate change.

€25m sought in Italy murder case

A lawyer representing the family of a British college student who was slain in Italy is seeking €25 ($NZ53.53) million in damages from an American and two other defendants accused in the 2007 killing.

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Dick Smith helped pay Aussie ransom

Nigel Brennan Millionaire businessman Dick Smith and Australian Greens leader Bob Brown contributed money to secure the freedom of kidnapped Australian journalist Nigel Brennan.

Networks give in to web TV

Australian TV networks have thrown in the towel in their fight against the delivery of TV programming beyond the traditional broadcast TV signal.

Aussie teens charged with stealing piggy bank

Farting pig triggers gas alarm

Was Obama in danger from dinner crashers?

The Secret Service says President Barack Obama was never in danger at a state dinner after an uninvited couple got through White House security, but it wouldn't comment on whether anyone is screened for radiological or biological weapons.

Russia, US to sign arms pact

The United States and Russia will sign a deal this year to cut vast Cold War arsenals of nuclear weapons but may miss an early December deadline.

Atlantis touches down safely

Couple crash Obama's party

Geisy Arruda

'Mini-dress student' joins parade

Brazilians may be seeing a whole lot more of the student whose short pink dress got her booted out of college - she's agreed to march in the nation's famously flesh-baring Carnival parades.

Rappers jailed for YouTube threat

Two British rappers have been jailed for threatening potential witnesses to a murder in a song they posted on YouTube.

Poland clamps down on communist symbols

Poland's president has approved legislation that allows for people to be fined or even imprisoned for possessing or buying communist symbols, two decades after communist rule ended.

Suspect in Nazi trial proud of his SS service

Russia, US to sign arms pact

Church 'covered up child abuse'

The Roman Catholic church in Dublin obsessively covered up widespread sexual abuse of children by priests until the mid-90s, a report says.

UK diplomat: US 'hell bent' on Iraq invasion

The US was "hell bent" on a 2003 military invasion of Iraq and actively undermined efforts by Britain to win international authorisation for the war, a former British diplomat told an inquiry.

IAEA votes to censure Iran

The UN nuclear watchdog has voted to rebuke Iran for building a uranium enrichment plant in secret but Tehran rejected the move as "intimidation" which would poison its negotiations with world powers.

Pakistan tribal leader killed

War in Iraq 'signed in blood'

Hajj pilgrims

Rains kill 77 during hajj

Muslim pilgrims holding white umbrellas against the blazing sun clambered up a rocky desert hill for prayers during the annual hajj, a day after torrential rains killed at least 77 people.

Two dead, 50 missing as ferry sinks

At least two people died and 50 are missing after a Bangladesh ferry with several hundred passengers sank in a river in coastal area.

Questions remain after executions

The execution of two men, Zhang Yujun and Geng Jinping, in Shijiazhuang is being portrayed as official closure of the tainted milk scandal but leaves a lot of questions unanswered, reports a Chinese newspaper.

China unveils Copenhagen targets

Philippine massacre suspect held

Taj Mahal hotel

Mumbai remembers terror attacks

Mumbai has held tearful memorials and police staged a show of strength as India's financial hub marked the first anniversary of militant raids that killed 166 people.

US says Sudan's 2010 elections in doubt

Sudan may be unable to hold credible elections in coming months because the ruling party and opposition cannot agree on ground rules for the polls, the US State Department says.

Dick Smith helped pay Aussie ransom

Millionaire businessman Dick Smith and Australian Greens leader Bob Brown contributed money to secure the freedom of kidnapped Australian journalist Nigel Brennan.

Kidnapped Aussie freed

Woman duped by online love cheat

Furry felons rob South African tourists

Furry felons rob tourists

Some cheeky South African monkeys have learned how to open car doors and jump through windows in pursuit of tasty sandwiches and snacks.

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