A FORMER Garuda pilot at the helm of a plane that crashed in Indonesia, killing 21 people including five Australians, will enthusiastically fight criminal charges, his lawyer says
A JAPANESE man who took out a classified advertisement to find his lost dog wound up instead with an ulcer after being pestered by hundreds of nuisance calls
ABC journalist and accused drug trafficker Peter Lloyd will shortly walk free from Singaporean custody after a judge ordered his release on $45,000 bail
CHINA warned its already tightly controlled media today that the Government would not tolerate "obscene, sexual, superstitious or base" advertisments over the Olympic period which may embarrass the country
A GREEK prosecutor has charged a 20-year-old British woman with strangling her newborn baby after giving birth in a hotel room on the Mediterranean island of Crete, a court official said today
ARRESTED genocide suspect Radovan Karadzic was set today to fight his transfer to the UN war crimes tribunal, as his Bosnian-based family sought the return of seized travel papers in order to visit him
VISITORS to a Milan funfair are lapping up the chance to perform a mock execution, watching as a highly life-like dummy shakes and grimaces in an electric chair, Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported today
Murder probe ... UK police say they have identified a burnt body as Jill Foster, the wife of businessman Christopher Foster. The businessman and the couple`s daughter (insets) are missing / EPA
DUMPED Olympian Nick D`Arcy will start a radio career next week when he joins a Queensland Sunshine Coast station ahead of the Beijing Games
