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The 28-year-old Indian student  parked his taxi outside his girlfriend’s home on Collier Crescent. He then rang her on his   mobile to get her to bring out his dinner when someone approached his vehicle. His girlfriend  heard the driver scream...

The Coral Princess sailed into San Pedro on Monday morning, ending its 15-day Panama cruise; Chiara Faliva flew all the way from Italy to greet it. Far from a relaxing vacation, Faliva is hopscotching the world -- on Tuesday she...

Police are hunting a 28-year-old man who once shared a boarding house room with the dead man. Witnesses saw the attack in which the younger man used an iron bar or tyre lever to repeatedly strike the victim in the...

Bomb threat in central Wellington 09/12/2009 16:32:01 Part of central Wellington is cordoned off as police investigate a bomb threat. Customers and staff have been evacuated from the National Bank on Featherston St. Emergency services have blocked off most of...

A plain clothes policeman walks the stairway of the stampede site at Yucai Middle School in Xiangxiang, in south China's Hunan province, Tuesday, Dec...It was raining hard, and the hundreds of children leaving their evening classes raced down the narrow...

The declaration of martial law has already achieved much of what the AFP wanted to do in any event. Large caches of weapons and munitions have been found at Ampatuan clan properties. It would appear that arms and ammunition that...

Indonesian Regional House of Representative establish an anti-graft caucus Indonesian Regional of House Representative make a declaration to establish an anti-corruption caucus in Jakarta today, Tuesday, December 8, 2009 in commemoration of ‘’the world December 9, Anti-Graft...

Via interpreter) I would like to thank the Secretary of State for the very good conversation that we’ve had. I thank the Secretary of State and President Obama for all the initiatives that they have launched. We have talked about...

On ABC TV's Lateline last night, host Tony Jones asked the Opposition Leader why he had made the comparison. "Well I think that what we're getting from a certain side of this argument is the view that the whole fate...

The Burmese-born US citizen currently detained in a Rangoon prison on charges of fraud is staging a hunger strike, his aunt has said. Kyaw Zaw Lwin, also known as Nyi Nyi Aung, has met with his family on several occasions...