VOGUE editor Kirstie Clements has honoured her commitment to feature Australia`s Next Top Model winner Demelza Reveley in the pages of the fashion title, but the association may be stored at the back of the wardrobe for a few years to come yet
A SAUDI appeals court upheld a jail and flogging verdict against a biochemist and his female student whose research contact was ruled to be a front for a telephone affair that led her to divorce her husband
SAUDI Arabia`s religious police have banned selling cats and dogs or exercising them in public in the Saudi capital, because of men using them as a means of making passes at women, an official said today
MALAYSIA`S opposition figurehead Anwar Ibrahim insists he will fight a by-election later this year and form a new government despite fears he will soon be charged with sodomy
HUNGER in North Korea is at its worst since the 1990s, the United Nations said today, prompting the resumption of emergency UN food shipments after a two-year hiatus
THE trial of a Beijing activist who campaigned for the rights of people evicted from their homes has been abruptly postponed, just before the Olympics, her lawyer says
THE International Olympic Committee has admitted it knew China never planned to lift internet restrictions for journalists covering the Beijing Games, despite promises to the contrary
ON the day a loaf of bread sold for two hundred million dollars in Harare, Zimbabwe announced it would issue new bank notes that knock 10 zeros off the dollar
ZIMBABWE`S President Robert Mugabe said power-sharing negotiations were still on track today, shortly before meeting the talks mediator, South African President Thabo Mbeki
A BRITISH computer expert has lost his appeal against extradition to the US where he is accused of "the biggest military hack of all time" and could face up to 70 years in prison
FORMULA One chief Max Mosley defended his bondage romp with five prostitutes in an interview with Gazetta dello Sport today, claiming that people are entitled to do as they please in their private lives
US President George W Bush has signed an elaborate housing rescue plan designed to help thousands of homeowners avert foreclosure and bolster mortgage finance giants
PLAYMAKER Ron Artest of the Sacramento Kings would join Chinese star centre Yao Ming on the Houston Rockets under a trade deal being discussed between the NBA clubs
Big finale ... the Pope will appear in a helicoopter and the popemobile today at the World Youth Day final mass.
