AT least 40 protesters in Burma, including seven Buddhist monks, have been sentenced to prison after secret trials over last year`s pro-democracy marches, Amnesty International said today
JAPAN says Prime Minister Kevin Rudd may visit in June, after the Chinese-speaking former diplomat raised eyebrows by opting to skip Tokyo on his first major trip abroad
A NEW Zealand teenager has been convicted for his central role in a global cyber crime ring which infected at least 1.3 million computers worldwide and caused millions of dollars in losses
AN Australian pilot whose intrusion into Singapore airspace caused fighter jets to scramble and brought commercial air traffic to a halt was today fined 5000 Singapore dollars ($3970)
THE Olympic torch headed for Kazakhstan today on the first leg of an epic world tour designed to drum up enthusiasm for the Beijing Games, but also certain to draw anti-China protests
INDIA`s football captain has refused to carry the Olympic torch when it arrives in New Delhi this month to protest China`s crackdown on unrest in Tibet
CHINA said countries that boycott the Olympic opening ceremony in August would undermine their own interests, while skirting the issue of why it stayed away from the 1980 Moscow Games]]>
AT least 50 exiled Tibetans have been detained near the Chinese embassy in Nepal`s capital Kathmandu in ongoing protests against a crackdown by security forces in their homeland
A HERCULES plane carrying 10 military personnel, including an Australian airman, was not fitted with safety foam that could have prevented it being shot down in Iraq, an inquest has been told
FINNISH Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva has been forced to quit his job after he bombarded an erotic dancer with mobile phone text messages, a source in Mr Kanerva`s party said today
FOURTEEN more members of a Russian doomsday cult emerged today from the remote underground bunker where they had been holed up for six months awaiting the end of the world
PAY-per-view funerals will go live online in Britain today, allowing mourners who cannot attend services in person to pay their last respects via the internet
MEXICO`S "Little Old Lady Killer," a female ex-wrestler who strangled and beat to death 11 elderly women in their homes after offering them domestic help, has been sentenced to life in prison
DRUG hitmen tortured and killed four men, wrapping their heads in black garbage bags, as thousands of soldiers and federal police arrived to bolster security in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez
A CANADIAN Coast Guard icebreaker and a ship from the Sea Shepherd conservation group collided overnight in the Gulf of St Lawrence where the annual harp seal hunt is taking place
USING stimulants like Ritalin to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in children, particularly younger ones, does not seem to boost the risk of later substance abuse, researchers said today
A SECURITY scanner that sees through passengers` clothes will be tested by Qantas at Melbourne airport
