THE Red Cross says it will have built more than 55,000 houses for people hit by the devastating 2004 South Asian tsunami by the end of 2009, when most major construction work should wind down
THE price of New York crude oil has soared above $US50 per barrel for the first time in two weeks as the market was driven by expectations that OPEC will cut crude output this week, traders say
A RUSSIA court has handed jail terms of up to 20 years to seven young members of a racist group who carried out 20 racially-motivated murders and then posted the evidence on the internet
SOCIAL networking site Facebook has closed down a Serbian group that celebrated the massacre of 8000 Muslims in Srebrenica after online appeals from about 14,000 people in Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia
A WOMAN in a deep sleep sent emails to friends asking them over for wine and caviar in what doctors believe is the first reported case of `zzz-mailing` - using the internet while asleep
TOP envoys from Afghanistan, neighbouring nations and the world`s great powers agreed overnight at a Paris meeting boycotted by Iran to work more closely to try to restore stability in the war-torn state
FRENCH bank BNP Paribas said on Sunday it could lose up to €350 million ($695.13 million) in the scandal surrounding New York investment manager Bernard Madoff
MORE than 14,000 people dressed as Santa Claus paraded in Portugal`s city of Porto to try to set a new world record for the largest gathering of Santas and raise money for charity
