Today at 02:02:00 - Mining giant Rio Tinto completes a deal with Chinese firm Chalco to enter a joint venture in West Africa.

Today at 01:45:34 - Officials investigate damage to a Japanese oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, amid reports of a collision or an attack.

Today at 01:14:01 - Greenpeace accuses Indonesian conglomerate Sinar Mas of ongoing destruction of peatlands and wildlife habitats by logging.

29/07/2010 at 23:43:43 - Thai authorities lift a state of emergency in six more provinces, more than two months after ending anti-government protests in Bangkok.

29/07/2010 at 20:17:34 - Rescue teams in northeast China are working to retrieve 3,000 barrels of chemicals washed into a major river, state media says.

29/07/2010 at 05:50:03 - Will Australia's Greens hold the balance of power in the Senate?

29/07/2010 at 04:37:16 - At least six people are killed and about 300 injured in an explosion at an abandoned plastics factory in the Chinese city of Nanjing, media reports say.

Today at 17:05:14 - The United States says it encourages a dialogue between India and Pakistan despite 'revelations' of known links between Pakistani spy agency ISI and the Taliban as it is in the interest of a ...

Today at 16:05:15 - US environmental regulators Thursday rejected a series of challenges to the science behind climate change, reaffirming that global warming is real and the result of man-made pollution.

Today at 15:05:03 - Canadian scientists said Thursday that they have rediscovered the HMS Investigator, a famous British rescue ship that got trapped in Arctic ice 157 years ago while trying to track the fate of another ...

Today at 15:05:03 - Hollywood actress Jessica Biel has revealed she is addicted to cheese.

Today at 14:05:14 - Police in riot gear stared down protesters in a tense stand-off in Pheonix, Arizona on Thursday.

Today at 17:05:18 - Wellington, 30 July 2010. - The new international ban on cluster bombs, which comes into effect this Sunday, will help make the world a safer place for children, says UNICEF NZ.

Today at 16:05:21 - An Australian Special Forces soldier was slightly wounded in Afghanistan on the 26th of July.

28/07/2010 at 14:53:00 - Residents of Whyalla may catch sight of Air Force's biggest transport aircraft in their skies over the course of this week.

28/07/2010 at 14:36:00 - When Auckland's Dr Percy Pease received US$10,000 from the international arm of Variety - The Children's Charity in 2008 as part of the Sir James Carreras award, it was due reward for the thousands of ...

28/07/2010 at 14:34:00 - Human Trafficking is a global industry that transcends borders, regions, and cultures. Within the Western Hemisphere trafficking is an important issue that arguably helps to shape relations between La ...

Today at 16:59:02 - HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas, whose long hunger strike helped pressure the Cuban government into releasing political prisoners, left the hospital on Thursday, not fully recover ...

Today at 16:29:06 - QUITO (Reuters) - South American foreign ministers failed to mend broken ties between Venezuela and Colombia at a meeting on Thursday but the countries agreed that irregular armed groups were hurting ...

Today at 16:29:06 - BANGKOK (Reuters) - A bomb exploded in Bangkok early on Friday, seriously wounding a man and stoking fears of civil unrest following a deadly blast five days ago and violent anti-government protests i ...

Today at 14:14:04 - GUADALAJARA, Mexico (Reuters) - Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel, a powerful Mexican drug boss, was killed in a clash with security forces, local media reported on Thursday.

Today at 13:14:02 - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel, a leading Mexican drug trafficker, was killed in a clash with state security forces, local media reported on Thursday.

Today at 16:05:11 - The Thai government has ended emergency rule in six provinces, but not in Bangkok, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Friday.

Today at 16:05:10 - Every time the automatic doors at the outpatient ward of Islamabad's main hospital slid open, they revealed a thick white mist lingering inside.

Today at 16:05:11 - Sectarian tensions rippled through an Indonesian town Thursday, where groups squared off over the closing of a minority group's mosques.

Today at 16:05:11 - Vietnam's Ministry of Information and Communications has cut off overnight public Internet access in businesses and banned advertisements of online games pending new regulations amid a public outcry o ...

Today at 16:05:11 - The U.S.-led United Nations Command will meet again Friday with North Korea to discuss the sinking of a South Korean warship, according to the U.S. Forces Korea website.

Today at 16:05:16 - Estimates of the number of graves that might be affected by mix-ups at Arlington National Cemetery grew from hundreds to as many as 6600, as the cemetery's former superintendent blamed his staff and a ...

Today at 16:05:16 - Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel, a major Mexican drug trafficker, was killed during an army operation, the government confirmed. 

Today at 15:05:09 - The discovery of the body of a second US sailor who vanished in Afghanistan last week only deepened the mystery of the men's disappearance nearly 60 miles from their base in a dangerous area controlle ...

Today at 14:05:15 - Her own father is no stranger to controversy, but now it has been revealed that Chelsea Clinton's future father-in-law is a convicted fraudster.

Today at 13:05:12 - Serbia's foreign minister warned an international court ruling backing the independence declaration by Kosovo has opened ``Pandora's box'' for secessionist movements around the world.

Today at 14:05:16 - ESME Tombleson, Gisborne's first woman MP and a driving force behind district development in the 1960s, died in Gisborne last night...

Today at 14:05:16 - POLICE have moved to defend their position on restricting the release of information in Gisborne, following a growing backlash against their new...

29/07/2010 at 13:00:00 - THE reality of this year's rates rise is hitting home with ratepayers as they open the first instalment of this year's rates increase this week...

29/07/2010 at 13:00:00 - A COMMERCIAL crayfishing boat has been seized by Ministry of Fishery officers in the Gisborne-East Coast area...

28/07/2010 at 13:00:00 - RESORT-style living seems to be the new rock'n roll for retired people in Gisborne, with many flocking to a presentation on the $50 million Ryman...

28/07/2010 at 13:00:00 - A KAITI School contingent has returned home from Samoa, sunned and "buzzing" over the Pacific Island cultural experience...

Today at 02:27:15 - The chief official at the port where a Japanese tanker was docked a day after it was damaged at the mouth of the Persian Gulf said Thursday investigators now believe the ship was involved in a collisi ...

Today at 01:50:27 - A man listed as the oldest living male in Tokyo in fact died some 30 years ago, city officials said after his body was found mummified in his bed. Tokyo - Japan - Asia - Prefectures - Mumm ...

28/07/2010 at 18:20:20 - An explosion hit a plastics factory on Wednesday in the Chinese city of Nanjing, killing an unknown number of people and injuring at least 100 more, state media said. Nanjing - China - Asia ...

28/07/2010 at 15:52:00 - Japan hanged two convicted killers, including a man who burned six women to death, in the country's first executions in one year, the government said. Japan - Asia - Capital punishment - Gov ...

28/07/2010 at 12:00:38 - Four of the world's largest freshwater fish species - including a catfish 10 feet long - face extinction if dams are built on the Mekong River, the WWF warned Tuesday. Fish - Mekong - Speci ...