DESPITE a hail of criticism over his comments about Tasmanian MP Paula Wriedt on last week`s AFL Footy Show, television personality Sam Newman went on the attack against his detractors tonight
EGYPT is to carry out DNA tests on the mummified remains of two foetuses found in the tomb of Tutankhamun to determine if they were the children of the boy king
A RADIO broadcaster was shot and killed in the central Philippines today, just three days after his colleague was critically wounded in a similar attack, their employer said
A POWERFUL 6.6-magnitude quake destroyed more than 500 homes on a remote island chain in eastern Indonesia early today, but only five people were injured, officials said
A US nuclear-powered submarine which has steadily been leaking a small amount of radiation for over two years stopped at three Japanese ports, as well as Guam and Pearl Harbor
SEVERAL hand grenades were thrown at an Istanbul municipality building on the Asian side of Istanbul this morning, the state-run news agency Anatolian reported
SEVEN Bangladeshi children brought up by a man accused of planning to sell them have been DNA-tested to determine whether they are septuplets, a lawyer said today
A 5.0-MAGNITUDE earthquake has hit in south-west China`s Sichuan province, an area rattled repeatedly by aftershocks following a massive tremor in May, the US Geological Survey said
PAKISTAN`S ruling coalition has agreed to begin impeachment proceedings against President Pervez Musharraf, a move likely to deepen political instability in the country
THE leaders of a coup in Mauritania may have won the support of many local politicians but they face a tide of international outrage for ousting the desert nation`s first democratically elected president
A CANADIAN navy frigate is being deployed to the coast of Somalia to escort World Food Program ships carrying humanitarian aid to the region beset by pirates
THE junta that took over Mauritania in a military coup has promised "free and transparent" presidential elections in "the shortest possible period" in a statement read on national radio today
A HELICOPTER crash in California has left four firefighters with serious injuries and nine others missing, the US National Transportation and Security Board said today
FBI agents have arrested a man accused of abducting his seven-year-old daughter, sparking a national manhunt and fevered speculation over the flamboyant fugitive`s identity
