21/11/2008 | SOMALI pirates who hijacked the Saudi oil supertanker Sirius Star are demanding $US25 million ($39 million) in ransom, while plans have emerged for additional warships from 10 European countries and Russia to converge on the region to tackle the pirate problem.
20/11/2008 | THERE should be no more Bahrainis throwing trussed Australian sheep into the boots of their Mercedes before next month's Eid al-Adha religious festival.
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20/11/2008 | AN INDIAN warship patrolling the Gulf of Aden has engaged in a gun battle with a suspected pirate ship and destroyed it, the Indian navy said yesterday.
20/11/2008 | DHOWS rest on a sandy beach in front of a few ramshackle homes.
20/11/2008 | AN AUSTRALIAN mining company has paid millions of dollars in controversial fees to Somali rebels responsible for a surge in international piracy, including the hijacking this week of an oil supertanker.
20/11/2008 | LOS ANGELES: Barack Obama has sent an explicit message to international negotiators of a new global warming treaty that, under his administration, the US would move to greatly reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century, and "help lead the world toward a new era of global co-operation on climate change".
20/11/2008 | BELFAST: Four square metres of rainforest are destroyed for every gram of cocaine snorted, a conference of senior British police officers has been told.
20/11/2008 | THE political renaissance of the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has shifted from the realms of fantasy to serious speculation of an early election as his steady management of the economic crisis in Britain whittles away at the Tories' lead in opinion polls.
19/11/2008 | Executives from the big three American car companies - General Motors, Ford and Chrysler - will make a direct plea to Congress today for a multibillion-dollar lifeline, warning that bankruptcy and lay-offs of hundreds of thousands loom without government help.
19/11/2008 | JUST as Therese Rein, wife of the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, had to give up aspects of her business, the former US president Bill Clinton may have to cease some of his activities for his wife, Hillary, tp become the nation's top diplomat.
19/11/2008 | NEW DELHI: Voters in Kashmir defied bitterly cold weather and separatist calls for a boycott at the first stage of elections in the troubled Himalayan province by turning up at the polls in surprisingly large numbers.
18/11/2008 | IF HILLARY CLINTON is named US secretary of state, she and her husband could be positioned to lead a public-private partnership on the global stage unlike any before it, one that experts say could bri...
18/11/2008 | IN A case of prehistoric paternity testing, the world's oldest known nuclear family has been identified: a mum, dad and two boys who lived 4600 years ago.
18/11/2008 | FOUR Australian judges, including the High Court Justice Michael Kirby, have been put on a United Nations shortlist of candidates to sit on two unprecedented tribunals to help root out nepotism and corruption among UN staff.
18/11/2008 | NAIROBI: The rebel leader Laurent Nkunda agreed to support United Nations efforts to restore peace in eastern Congo even as his troops were battling government forces.
18/11/2008 | A CHRISTIAN missionary is largely responsible for the nightmare facing five Australians who have been detained in Papua for three months and face possible prison sentences after illegally landing their light plane in the politically sensitive Indonesian province.
18/11/2008 | THE future of one of the best known freedom struggles is being reassessed by Tibetan refugees in exile attending an unprecedented meeting at the Indian hill town of Dharamsala.
18/11/2008 | A RETIRED Chinese leader has picked a fight with China's most forthright magazine, shedding rare light on the feuds and insecurities that shape China's political landscape.
18/11/2008 | GENERAL elections in Israel tend to breed new political movements. Names like Shinui, the Centre Party and the Pensioners Party have all enjoyed brief bursts of enthusiasm in recent election cycles but none has managed to survive beyond their first election.
17/11/2008 | She lost the election but is reportedly set to score an $11 million-dollar book contract
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