Today at 23:33:01 - The Dalai Lama accuses China of trying to "annihilate Buddhism", as Tibet marks 51 years since a failed revolt against Beijing.

Today at 22:18:02 - Cathay Pacific reports a return to full-year profit as cost cutting and bets on the price of fuel pay off.

Today at 23:03:02 - Vice-captain Michael Clarke is named in the Australian Test squad despite recently returning home from New Zealand for personal reasons.

Today at 15:48:01 - Indonesia's President Yudhoyono confirms security forces killed terror suspect Dulmatin in raids in Jakarta on Tuesday.

Today at 15:03:01 - A new election law formally bars pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from taking part in elections planned in Burma.

Today at 04:56:37 - Rain brings relief to parched Australian farming town

Today at 02:09:51 - Do raids mean Indonesia's terror groups are back?

11/03/2010 at 00:05:20 - Pakistan's new coach Waqar Younis was Wednesday shocked over the cricket board's decision to ban and fine several leading national players.

11/03/2010 at 00:05:20 - Hundreds of Tibetans, including Buddhist monks and nuns, Wednesday remembered their forefathers' uprising against the Chinese annexation of their land in 1959 and chanted slogans for a free Tibet ...

11/03/2010 at 00:05:20 - Gunmen armed with assault rifles and hand grenades raided the office of a Christian aid group in northern Pakistan Monday, killing six staffers, police said.

11/03/2010 at 00:05:20 - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has banned two of its world-class batsmen, Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf, from playing international cricket for life and barred former captain Shoaib Malik and medi ...

11/03/2010 at 00:05:20 - One-ninth of Nepal's nearly 27 million population face starvation, the UN warned Wednesday.

11/03/2010 at 00:05:07 - Sujet Salee is a Thai boxing champion with an impressive fight record, but the 29-year-old also stands out among his peers for another reason: he's blind.

Today at 20:05:13 - Suspected militants armed with grenades attacked the offices of an international aid group helping earthquake survivors in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six employees and wounding severa ...

Today at 23:05:09 - Floodwaters are being channelled into vast storage dams on the NSW-Queensland border, saving towns there from major flooding.

Today at 20:05:14 - The Indonesian president has expressed sympathy to the families of Australian newsmen killed in Balibo, a surprise move which could help end 35 years of rancour between the two countries.

Today at 19:05:08 - Police say gunmen have attacked an international aid group's office in northwest Pakistan, killing at least three people.

Today at 21:29:06 - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. and British patent offices are working on a plan to have patent examiners in the two countries share research as a way to reduce a several-years backlog of applications ...

Today at 21:29:06 - ABUJA (Reuters) - Hundreds of Nigerians gathered in the capital Abuja on Wednesday for a march to the presidency to demand the appearance of ailing leader Umaru Yar'Adua, two weeks after he returned f ...

Today at 21:29:06 - LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will on Wednesday propose to force banks to reveal how many of their staff earn top wages, in steps that go further than previous proposals, financial services minister Paul ...

Today at 20:59:02 - KABUL (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived on Wednesday for a visit to Afghanistan, after Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said he was wary of Tehran's influence in the country. ...

Today at 21:29:06 - DUBAI (Reuters) - Egyptian religious leader Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, the head of al Azhar, has died on a visit to Saudi Arabia, Al Jazeera television reported on Wednesday, quoting its correspond ...

Today at 20:05:06 - Militants attacked the office of a humanitarian organization in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday killing five people, police said.

Today at 20:05:06 - India's upper house of parliament has passed a historic bill aimed at reserving one-third of seats for women in federal and state legislatures.

Today at 20:05:06 - Myanmar's ruling junta has announced a new election law that disqualifies pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from participating in upcoming national elections.

Today at 18:05:07 - Every bit of fully synthetic plastic that's ever been produced over the past 100 years is somewhere on our planet, a leading environmentalist, David de Rothschild, said Tuesday.

Today at 18:05:07 - Dogs bark and whine behind high chain-link fences, some of them gnawing the wire so hard they bleed at the mouths while cats packed into crowded cages cower in fear if anyone approaches.

Today at 12:00:00 - A year after the big fire at Mahia there's hardly a sign that flames shooting high into the sky raced through tinder-dry pines and scrub...

Today at 12:00:00 - More young people are wandering around Gisborne's streets drinking late at night because, for some of them, the streets are better than home...

Today at 12:00:00 - WAIROA district's rates collection would go up nearly 6.8 percent under the draft annual plan presented yesterday, but councillors have not finished...

Today at 12:00:00 - MORE than two years after the 2007 earthquake rocked Gisborne, the church bells are ready to chime again at St Andrew's Presbyterian Church...

09/03/2010 at 12:00:00 - When Donna Cullingford stepped foot in the Gisborne SPCA looking for a puppy 15 years ago, she did not realise it would be so long before she finally...

Today at 11:43:00 - THE Joint Military Task Force (JTF), a special security outfit saddled with the responsibility of ensuring uninterrupted economic activities in the Niger Delta, Nigeria's main oil and gas basin, is cu ...

Today at 11:30:00 - Protests in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and London on Wednesday 10 March will mark the 150th day of the asylum boat stranded at Merak and coincide with the Indonesian President Yudhoyono's visit to Aust ...

Today at 11:19:00 - Survival International is proud to announce 'WE ARE ONE - a celebration of tribal peoples', a fundraising evening in aid of Survival International created and directed by Mark Rylance, on Sunday 18 Ap ...

Today at 11:13:00 - A number of organisations will rally outside Prime Minister Rudd's Sydney office including the Refugee Action Coalition which is calling on Kevin Rudd to offer the two hundred and fifty Tamil refugees ...

Today at 11:05:00 - The military ruled Burma (Myanmar) emerges as an important actor on the projected peace talks between the Union government of India and the banned militant group, United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA ...

Today at 03:39:18 - I started hearing the offers soon after arriving at the Liang Bua cave in the mountains of Flores island. "You want to see a living hobbit?"

09/03/2010 at 23:33:57 - Anti-terror police hunting a mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombings killed three suspects near Jakarta on Tuesday, police said. Officials said they believed a militant behind Indonesia's worst terror at ...

09/03/2010 at 15:34:00 - The rare spirits that went under the gavel at a recent online auction in New Zealand weren't aged brandies or hard-to-find liqueurs. Auction - New Zealand - Online auction business model - O ...

08/03/2010 at 11:24:11 - Chinese troops with automatic rifles now patrol the Tibetan quarter of the capital of Chinese-controlled Tibet - as ever-present as Buddhist pilgrims. Tibet - China - Buddhism - Asia - Dalai ...

06/03/2010 at 17:00:03 - An animal keeper has died after being bitten by a tiger at the Shanghai Zoo. Chinese language - Shanghai - Zoo - Biology - China