AN unsuspecting traveller who walked away from a Tokyo airport with one million yen`s worth of cannabis due to a customs blunder has returned the drugs
INDONESIA`S capital is preparing sand bags to shore up flood defences ahead of unusually high tides that are expected to hit the city from early next week, officials said
TORRENTIAL downpours in China have now claimed 64 lives, state media reported, with flash-floods destroying thousands of homes as well as bridges and large swathes of crops
CHINA`S frantic work to prevent a "quake lake" from bursting its banks was nearly finished, an official said today, as hundreds of thousands of people waited anxiously downstream
JAPAN`S Defence Minister questioned whether China`s missile and nuclear arsenal was only meant for self-defence, though China sought to play down fears of its growing military strength and spending
A TEENAGE transvestite who grew up on a military base has been crowned Thailand`s most beautiful transvestite, in an extravagant annual pageant which transfixed the nation
THE Olympic torch relay in quake-hit Sichuan has been postponed until just before the Games in August, state media said today, as local authorities focused on recovery efforts
NEPAL`S deposed monarch is willing to leave his pink-hued palace quietly to begin life as a commoner but wants help with housing and protection for his family, state-run media has reported
NINE skydivers have jumped free of their plane before it crashed in Spain killing the pilot and another of their companions, local authorities said today
FORMER Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho is close to being named the new boss of Inter Milan following the release of pictures of the coach meeting Inter president Massimo Moratti
MELBOURNE coach Craig Bellamy will seek a meeting with NRL referees boss Robert Finch after the Storm were again penalised several times early by official Shayne Hayne
THEY are the measure of star quality that the television stations don`t want you to see
COMEDIAN Wil Anderson has revealed he was so devastated by the break-up of his long-term relationship that he cried for six weeks
