ERIK Weihenmayer went blind at the age of 13. On a rock climbing expedition he learned he could use his hands and feet as eyes, and a lifetime of adventure opened up before him
INDONESIA`S immigration office has detained 25 foreigners, mostly Africans but including one Australian, for disturbing public order, including flirting with teenage girls and married women, a report has said
INDONESIAN authorities have rejected a bail request for the Garuda pilot arrested over the fatal crash that killed 21 people, including five Australians, in Yogyakarta last year
THAILAND`S junta has said that the coup 16 months ago had failed to achieve their goal of erasing the influence of deposed premier Thaksin Shinawatra, whose allies have formed a new elected government
AN Afghan reporter whose death sentence for blasphemy has sparked international protests is unlikely to face execution, Afghanistan`s Defence Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak said
PAKISTANI investigators arrested two men they dfescribed as important alleged terrorists in connection with the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto
PAKISTANI authorities barred opposition politician Imran Khan from entering the southern city of Karachi on Thursday because he has called for a boycott of upcoming elections
BRITISH detectives probing the death of Benazir Bhutto are to reveal that she was killed by the force of a suicide blast and not an assassin`s bullet, the New York Times reported
A CORONER has called on the South Australian Medical Board to review the conduct of two doctors following the death of a 71-year-old woman at a nursing home they indirectly owned
