OSCAR-winning Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson will co-write the screenplays for the two-part adaptation of JRR Tolkien`s The Hobbit, reports say
IRAN has hanged a man for a murder committed at the age of 15, in violation of an international convention on child rights, one of five people executed on a single day, press reports said today
IRAN has banned an award-winning young actress from leaving the country following her appearance in a Hollywood movie with Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio
THAI immigration police say they will deport shamed British glam rocker Gary Glitter to London "as soon as possible" despite his claims of health problems preventing him from flying
THAILAND will deport former glam rocker and convicted paedophile Gary Glitter to another country in Asia, rather than to his native Britain, according to a Thai immigration official
THAILAND will deport former glam rocker and convicted paedophile Gary Glitter to another country in Asia, rather than to his native Britain, according to a Thai immigration official
THREE Islamic militants on death row over the Bali bombings will not be executed before the holy fasting month of September, Indonesia`s Attorney General said today
OUSTED Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra will seek political asylum in Britain, claiming that he and his family are not safe in Thailand, his lawyer said today
TALIBAN militants shot dead two women in the troubled north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar after accusing them of being prostitutes, police said today
AN Aboriginal boomerang collected by Britain`s Captain James Cook on his first trip to New Holland - now Australia - in 1770 but lost to public sight ever since goes on sale next month
A CHINESE man has been reinstated as the world`s tallest living male because a "taller" Ukrainian refuses to be measured, Guinness World Records said today
OSCAR-winning film star Elizabeth Taylor is back home and doing well following a recent stay of several weeks in a Los Angeles-area hospital for unspecified reasons, her spokesman said today
TROPICAL Storm Fay was heading eastward toward Florida`s Atlantic coast early this morning, with forecasters saying it will more than likely make a return trip to the waterlogged state after it finally moves offshore
UKRAINIAN striker Andrei Shevchenko, who has endured a miserable two years at Chelsea, is set to be loaned to his former club AC Milan, the Gazzetta dello Sport reported
Not funny ... Foster`s has sacked "online comedian" Karl Tilcock for creating offensive YouTube videos / Glenn Barnes.
