Saturday Nov 21 12:17 AEDT
By David Stringer | 41 mins agoA British couple being held hostage by Somali pirates have said in an interview that they fear they will be killed if a ransom is not paid soon.
Saturday Nov 21 11:55 AEDT
1 hours 3 mins agoPublisher HarperCollins says Sarah Palin's memoir sold 300,000 copies its first day, among the best openings ever for a nonfiction book.
Saturday Nov 21 11:52 AEDT
1 hours 5 mins agoAmerican exchange student Amanda Knox wept at the trial in which she is accused of murdering her British housemate in Perugia two years ago.
Saturday Nov 21 10:39 AEDT
2 hours 19 mins agoCuba's government has offered its first free penis implants, part of a program set to be expanded across the communist island, a newspaper has reported.
Saturday Nov 21 09:37 AEDT
3 hours 21 mins agoA US judge sentenced the leader of a plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago to 13 years in prison Friday, far less than the 70 years sought by prosecutors.
Saturday Nov 21 09:31 AEDT
3 hours 27 mins agoBrazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is calling a meeting of eight Amazon countries to forge a common stand on climate talks, officials said.
Saturday Nov 21 08:01 AEDT
4 hours 57 mins agoA lawyer for the US Army psychiatrist charged in the mass shooting at Fort Hood says his client will have his first court hearing in his hospital room.
Saturday Nov 21 07:43 AEDT
5 hours 15 mins agoItalian dictator Benito Mussolini's blood and brain went on sale for 15,000 euros ($A24,343) on auction website eBay before the company pulled the ad.
Saturday Nov 21 07:36 AEDT
5 hours 22 mins agoA New York man is giving city authorities and a hospital an earful for allegedly tossing his ear in the trash after it was ripped off by a dog, a report says.
Saturday Nov 21 07:32 AEDT
By Ariel David | 5 hours 26 mins agoA Vatican researcher claims a nearly invisible text on the Shroud of Turin proves the authenticity of the artifact revered as Jesus' burial cloth.
Saturday Nov 21 07:07 AEDT
By Dalia Nammari | 5 hours 51 mins agoPalestinian officials say a new date for parliamentary and presidential elections will be set next month.
By Jean-Pierre Verges | 5 hours 52 mins agoPolice say a man with an automatic rifle opened fire on a car near a Paris train station, killing one man and wounding two others.
Saturday Nov 21 07:02 AEDT
5 hours 56 mins agoA British man who strangled his wife in his sleep because he dreamt she was an intruder has been freed after prosecutors withdrew the case against him.
Saturday Nov 21 06:29 AEDT
By Scott Heppell | 6 hours 29 mins agoMilitary helicopters winched dozens of people to safety and emergency workers in inflatable boats rescued scores more as floods swamped northern England.