HER rumoured tonsil hockey with American Olympic swim star Michael Phelps has left US gossip sites gagging for any saucy titbits they can get on Stephanie Rice
PAKISTAN`S fragile coalition government faces a Monday deadline on reinstating judges sacked by former president Pervez Musharraf that could determine whether its major parties split
THE family of Australian freelance journalist Nigel Brennan say they are deeply concerned following reports he was taken at gunpoint by unknown assailants outside the Somalian capital Mogadishu
A FUEL train hit a mine and exploded near the stricken Georgian city of Gori today as Russia faced renewed European Union pressure to make a complete withdrawal from Georgia
DOZENS of rescuers searched for victims today after a major avalanche swept down a mountainside near Mont Blanc in the French Alps injuring at least seven people, police said
THE Queen wants Prince William`s girlfriend Kate Middleton to work for a charity ahead of their much-anticipated engagement being announced later this year
FRANCE`S interior minister has headed to the French Alps today after 10 people, including five Austrians and two Swiss, were reported missing in an avalanche
THE first beauty pageant for nuns debuts next month with the advent of Miss Sister Italy aimed at erasing a stereotype of nuns as being old and sad, a newspaper has reported today
SYDNEY coach Paul Roos concedes his club`s great era in the AFL might be over, but says the Swans cannot afford to go back to ground zero because of the tough market they compete in