FIGURES out today will show weaker than expected growth in Australia`s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the final three months of last year, economists tip
US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke overnight called for a "vigorous response" to help stem rising home foreclosures, saying some banks and lenders could do more to help ease the US housing crunch
US troops found the bodies of 14 men with their hands tied behind their backs and shot in the head in a mass grave in the restive central Iraqi town of Samarra, the military said
AN Iranian court has ordered a man to buy his wife 124,000 roses after she filed a complaint against her "stingy" husband to claim her dowry, a press report said
IRAN has warned that a new UN Security Council resolution against Tehran over its nuclear activities would only complicate the standoff with the West, the official IRNA news agency reported
ISRAEL has vowed to keep hitting Gaza even as troops pulled out of the Hamas-run territory after clashes that killed almost 120 Palestinians and dealt a major blow to Middle East peace talks
PRIME Minister Nuri al-Maliki has ordered Iraqi security forces to make an all-out effort to secure the release of a kidnapped Chaldean Catholic archbishop
THE biblical Israelites may have been high on a hallucinogenic plant when Moses brought the Ten Commandments down from Mount Sinai, according to a new study by an Israeli psychology professor
AN Iraqi air force helicopter missing in northern Iraq has been found crashed in northern Iraq with all eight personnel on board killed, the US military said
AN Indian tourist who posed as a police officer and assaulted two teenagers has been sentenced to six months in jail but freed after serving only 10 days
THE British Government is considering banning all Zimbabwean sports men and women from competing in any sporting events in Britain, the BBC reported today
