US preparing for possible air drops of humanitarian supplies over Syria
Washington: The Obama administration is preparing for possible air drops of humanitarian relief over besieged areas of Syria, where hundreds of thousands of people have been cut off for months from...
View ArticleTwitter suspends more than 125,000 accounts for 'promoting terrorist acts'
Twitter has shut down more than 125,000 terrorism-related accounts since the middle of 2015, most of them linked to the Islamic State group, the company said in a blog post on Friday. Twitter has said...
View ArticleJustice Minister Michael Keenan's approval required for AFP to assist with...
Jakarta: Justice Minister Michael Keenan would have to personally sign off on the Australian Federal Police assisting an Indonesian police investigation into a woman who could face the death penalty....
View ArticleBy 2020, more people in the world will have a smartphone than running water
Everyone around you right now probably has a smartphone. You’re probably reading this article on a smartphone. But it may not be that way in other parts of the world — for now. A new report from Cisco...
View ArticleSan Miguel de Allende, Mexico, is a vibrant weekend getaway
Some consider the neatly laid-out town of San Miguel de Allende a Mexican Disneyland. Full of stucco colonial buildings whose paint jobs I would describe as watermelon gelato, electric cantaloupe and...
View ArticleAustrian avalanche kills up to five, police
Vienna: Up to five people were killed on Saturday in an...
View ArticleKidnapped Australian Jocelyn Elliott freed by al-Qaeda in Burkina Faso
Australian woman Jocelyn Elliott has been freed, more than three weeks after she and her surgeon husband Ken were kidnapped in Burkina Faso by al-Qaeda militants. Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou...
View ArticleAustralian bridge champion forced to sign gambling confession in Thailand
Bangkok: An Australian bridge champion was one of 31 Westerners pressured to sign what they say were false declarations that they had been gambling in Thailand. Avon Wilsmore, who has won three...
View ArticleNorth Korea fires long-range rocket, say South Korean officials
North Korea on Sunday defied international warnings and launched a long-range rocket that the United Nations and others call a cover for a banned test of technology for a missile that could strike the...
View ArticleDefiant North Korea launches 'space rocket'
Beijing: North Korea has defied international warnings and launched a long-range rocket feared to be a cover for a banned ballistics missile test, according to South Korean officials. Sunday morning's...
View ArticlePerth man deported from India after IS propaganda found on laptop
A Perth man has been refused entry to India and deported back to Australia on "strong indications" he is an Islamic State supporter. The man was detained for questioning on Thursday night after flying...
View ArticleMother and four children trapped in Christchurch Gondola
Tash Smith was stuck in a swinging, hot gondola for nearly two hours with four screaming children. Ms Smith said her three young children and a friend were so traumatised by being among 30 people...
View ArticleCritic of Vatican refuses to step down from sex abuse commission
Rome: A prominent and outspoken British member of a papal advisory commission on sexual abuse by the clergy on Saturday refused to step down despite a no-confidence vote, and said only Pope Francis...
View ArticleMystery of Najib Razak's $990m donor deepens in Malaysia
Bangkok: Mystery has deepened over the circumstances in which almost $US700 million ($990 million) was secretly deposited in the personal bank account of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak. The...
View ArticleRepublican debate: Trump booed by audience as Rubio roughed up by rivals
Washington: Donald Trump, far from humbled by a second- place finish in the first presidential nominating contest, bet again on his forceful personality as he battled a combative audience at Saint...
View ArticleAwkward start to Republican debate as candidates fail to respond to name call
The latest Republican debate was a train wreck before it had even begun as the conservative candidates, and potential future leaders of the free world, struggled to follow a simple staging cue: when...
View ArticleUS election: The four things that make Marco Rubio sound like a broken record
Washington: During Saturday's Republican presidential debate, Senator Marco Rubio sounded more like a broken record than a rising presidential front-runner. As New Jersey Governor Chris Christie...
View ArticleUN Security Council holds emergency session on North Korea after rocket launch
New York: The United Nations Security Council began an emergency meeting on North Korea's rocket launch on Sunday, with diplomats expecting the 15-nation body to condemn Pyongyang and redouble efforts...
View ArticleBrazil's carnival roars ahead despite Zika health scare
Rio de Janeiro: The worst health scare in recent history is not keeping Brazilians from their annual Carnival revelry, with millions of partiers swarming streets and some making fun of the mosquito...
View ArticleBootleg liquor kill 24 in Indonesia
Jakarta: Bootleg liquor has reportedly killed at least two dozen people in a village in Indonesia's Central Java province...
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