AP - Rescuers in two helicopters on Friday reached three Australian air crew who have been stranded for a week with their damaged plane in Antarctica, authorities said Friday.{br}{br}View the Enti

AFP - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, in a coma since a massive stroke last week, will undergo a futher neurological evaluation, the Jerusalem hospital where he is being treat

AFP - Powerful industry organisations are funding supposedly independent British parliamentary groups investigating policies in which they have a commercial interest, The Times newspap

AFP - Turkey raced to stem the spread of a bird flu outbreak that has killed three people and infected 15, while experts reported a mutation in the lethal strain of the virus, but ruled out a

AFP - China's central bank has reiterated it has no plan to sell down its US dollar holdings or use them to buy other assets such as oil after suggestions it might do so sparked nervousness

AP - Iran threatened on Friday to block inspections of its nuclear sites if U.N. Security Council confronts it over its nuclear activities.]]>{br}{br}View the Enti

AP - The U.S. military predicted Thursday that more violence will engulf Iraq in the weeks ahead as the country's splintered politicians and religious groups struggle to form

AP - Muslim pilgrims tripped over baggage as they rushed to cast stones at pillars representing the devil, causing the latest deadly stampede to mar the annual hajj.]]>{br}{br}View the Enti

AP - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for a more mobile and sophisticated peacekeeping force in Sudan's Darfur region as the Security Council mulled turning an African Union mission in

AFP - Ukraine's parliament voted to delay its winter recess by one week amid a standoff with President Viktor Yushchenko, who has demanded that lawmakers reverse their vote to sack h

AP - Disasters in recent years at the annual Muslim pilgrimage, or hajj, in Saudi Arabia:]]>{br}{br}View the Enti

AP - Tens of thousands of people filled the streets of Chile's two main cities Thursday for the final campaign rallies of the two candidates in Chile's presidential runoff vote, with pol

AFP - Egypt said it was awaiting documents from France to provide assurances that a decommissioned French warship seeking to transit the Suez Canal was not carrying hazardous waste.]]>{br}{br}Vi

AFP - South Korea agreed to lift a two-year ban on some US beef products starting in March but will continue to prohibit imports of bones and beef ribs.]]>{br}{br}View the Enti

Canadian Press - OTTAWA (CP) - Conservative Leader Stephen Harper is saying "No" to Kyoto, "Maybe" to missile defence, and "Sort of" to aboriginals.{br}{br}View the Enti

AFP - Stricken families were hunting for their loved ones after a stampede that killed 362 Muslims at the annual hajj, a disaster Saudi authorities have blamed on unruly pilgrims.]]>{br}{br}View t