armed robbers pulled off one of the world`s biggest jewellery heists at a famed Paris store, making off with diamonds and valuables worth 80 million euros ($A159.4 million), investigators say
REPAIRING the giant particle collider built to simulate the "Big Bang" could cost up to 35 million Swiss francs ($45 million), the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) says
CRUDE oil prices slumped close to $US40 a barrel in trading on Friday as the United States lost a stunning half a million jobs in November, raising prospects of a steep drop in energy demand
AUSTRIA is looking into whether militants who besieged Mumbai last week used an Austrian telephone number to communicate during the attacks, the Interior Ministry said on Friday
THE former home of the Trapp family, made famous by the 1965 film The Sound of Music, will not reopen as a hotel after all following opposition from residents and politicians, the owners said
NINETY-THREE countries have signed a landmark treaty banning cluster bombs, seen as one of the biggest international humanitarian agreements clinched in the past decade, host country Norway said overnight
MADONNA in provocative pose is to embody the latest collection designed by US stylist Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton, the French luxury house said today
