NATO said today it had abandoned an outpost in remote northeastern Afghanistan just days after it was stormed by militants, leaving nine US soldiers dead
A Chinese migrant worker killed one person and stabbed nine others after discovering his savings of 2,600 yuan ($380) had been swapped for counterfeit notes while he visited a prostitute
A MOTORIST who attacked a speed-camera car with a wheel brace, sending shards of glass into the eyes of its operator, has lost his appeal against a jail sentence
WESTERN Australia`s FuelWatch price monitoring scheme is rendered useless by a "comfortable oligopoly" of oil companies and supermarkets with little or no competition, a Senate inquiry has been told
DNA tests have confirmed that bone fragments found in Russia`s Ural region belonged to the last tsar`s murdered children Alexei and Maria, as Russia marked the 90th anniversary of their death
RUSSIAN oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky today applied for parole in the hope that President Dmitry Medvedev might prove more liberal than his predecessor, his lawyer said
ONE of Jimi Hendrix`s favourite guitars, set alight on a London stage more than 40 years ago and thought to have been lost forever, is to be auctioned later this year
NORTH Queensland half-back Johnathan Thurston has successfully undergone surgery on his injured knee and could begin rehabilitation as early as Thursday
SUPER 14 players have overwhelmingly backed rugby`s experimental laws as Australia prepare to reacquaint themselves with the new rules in their Saturday`s Tri-Nations series opener
Rescued ... the woman was trapped in rubble for hours / AP
