PAKISTAN`S National Assembly has elected as prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, a top official in assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto`s party, five weeks after it won a general election
MARINE divers are racing to save 18 Ukrainian sailors believed to be trapped on the ocean floor in their overturned ship after two vessels collided off Hong Kong
SINGAPORE has detained a member of the militant Islamic group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) who had trained at al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and was being groomed for a JI leadership position, the government said overnight
Investigation ... police at the scene of the fatal stabbing in the Target store in Hobart`s Elizabeth Mall / The Mercury