Rebels raid poultry farm

COMMUNIST guerrilla rebels raided a poultry farm in the southern Philippines and torched two buildings after the owner ignored their extortion demands, the military said on Saturday. Thousands of chickens were killed after rebels from the New...

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Iraq Eid attacks kill 16

ATTACKS mostly targeting Shi'ite Muslims during the Eid al-Adha holiday, including bombings of a marketplace and a minibus carrying pilgrims, killed at least 16 people in Iraq on Saturday. The shootings and explosions, which also left more than...

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Police fire rubber bullets at miners

SOUTH African police have fired rubber bullets, stun grenades and tear gas to disperse striking miners trying to prevent a rally by the country's main labour grouping. Bullet casings littered the ground and a helicopter circled above, with police...

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Vatican cannot revoke Savile's honour

THE Vatican says it cannot rescind the papal knighthood awarded to television star Jimmy Savile, who emerged as an alleged child sex predator after his death. The Catholic Church of England said it has contacted the Holy See to ask it to posthumously...

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Battle mars Syria holiday truce

FIGHTING raged near a military base in Syria's north as a cease-fire in the bloody civil war was set begin Friday at dawn, activists said, illustrating the difficulty of enforcing even a limited truce coinciding with a Muslim holiday. Elsewhere,...

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Hong Kong to cool property market

HONG Kong announced it will raise real-estate purchasing and resale costs to cool its overheating property market down, in a move targeting non-local buyers and speculative activities. The prices of small and medium sized residential flats in...

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Retail Adventures goes into administration

DISCOUNT store business Retail Adventures has gone into voluntary administration with jobs at risk and store closures expected. Retail Adventures is the largest trader of discount stores such as Sam's Warehouse, Crazy Clark's, Chickenfeed and...

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Mystery after oil exec gunned down

SO far, it's still a mystery. A British oil executive gunned down in front of his wife in the Belgian capital of Brussels. Helmeted assailants escaping on a motorcycle. No arrests. A driver of a white van who has not been found. A court order...

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New York Times sees modest profit

THE New York Times Co has announced a modest profit in a quarter in which digital subscriptions rose but revenues fell, including from online and print advertising. The media company seeking to manage a shift to digital readership reported net...

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Astronauts docks with space station

A RUSSIAN Soyuz spacecraft carrying three astronauts and a consignment of fish successfully docked Thursday with the International Space Station after a two-day voyage. The arrival of NASA astronaut Kevin Ford and Russians Oleg Novitsky and Yevgeny...

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Lemons could replace chemicals in IVF labs

MORE than 200 years after Casanova employed their contraceptive qualities, lemons are making a comeback as a way to stop sperm in their tracks. Scientists from Sydney's Genea fertility clinic are planning to replace the carcinogenic chemical formaldehyde...

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Forty whales die in mass stranding

ABOUT 40 whales died in a mass stranding on the west coast of India's remote North Andaman island in the Bay of Bengal, wildlife officials said. "The short-finned pilot whales were found by fishermen who alerted us and investigations show it...

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Man charged with brothel murder

A SYDNEY man has been charged with murder and armed robbery after a fatal stabbing at a brothel in the city's west. Police and paramedics rushed to the red-light business on George Street, Clyde, early on Wednesday morning after reports that...

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Virgin space project keeps being delayed

BRITISH billionaire Richard Branson says his space tourism project keeps being pushed back and isn't sure of an exact date for the first launch. He says it will be at least another 12 or 18 months before the Virgin Galactic venture can offer...

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Kennedy cousin says innocent of killing

KENNEDY cousin Michael Skakel is proclaiming his innocence in his first parole hearing to determine whether he should be released from a Connecticut prison a decade after he was convicted of killing his neighbour. Skakel said, "I did not commit...

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Facebook, Boeing fuel US stock rebound

OPTIMISTIC forecasts by Boeing and Facebook have pushed US stocks higher in opening trade, reversing course after a slew of earnings disappointments sent markets sharply lower on Tuesday. Facebook shares rocketed 23 per cent after the company...

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Butler's 'accomplice' faces Vatileaks trial

A VATICAN computer technician will go on trial on November 5 on charges of helping the Pope's former butler steal secret papers, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi says. Claudio Sciarpelletti's trial follows the conviction of ex-butler Paolo...

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Woman deported over royal photos

A CAMBODIAN court has ordered the deportation of a Chinese factory manager who nearly caused a riot among workers by ripping up photographs of recently deceased former king Norodom Sihanouk. Wang Zia Chao, 43, was also handed a one-year suspended...

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Syrian shell hits health centre in Turkey

AN anti-aircraft shell fired from Syria has hit a health centre in a Turkish border town but caused no casualties, reports the private CNN-Turk television network on its website. The shell landed in the Reyhanli district of Hatay province, 200...

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US stocks plunge 1% on poor earnings

US stocks have opened more than one per cent lower after blue chips Dupont, United Technologies and 3M turned in disappointing quarterly earnings and cut their forecasts. Five minutes into trade the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 166.39...

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Emergency planning 'lacks funds'

AUSTRALIA needs to boost its "shamefully inadequate" emergency services funding and set up a national body to oversee disaster management, former federal emergency services minister Robert McClelland says. Mr McClelland says more attention should...

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More young people drowning

A SIGNIFICANT rise in the number of young people drowning in Australia has led to a call for compulsory swimming lessons at primary schools. The Royal Life Saving Society (RLSS) says 371 people aged between 15 and 24 drowned between 2002 and...

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Instant phone translation begins in Japan

JAPAN'S biggest mobile operator says it will launch a translation service that lets people chat over the phone in several different languages. The application for NTT DoCoMo subscribers will give two-way voice and text readouts of conversations...

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US stocks slip on Caterpillar outlook

US stocks have opened mostly lower as investors braced for a week of earnings reports, with Caterpillar's lowered outlook hurting sentiment. Five minutes into trade on Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 12.86 points, or 0.10 per...

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Budget 12/13 surplus not necessity: Access

THE federal government's promise to bring the budget back to surplus is based more on politics than economic necessity, a leading independent forecaster says. As Labor prepares to release its mid-year budget review on Monday morning, Deloitte...

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WA remains the economic powerhouse

WESTERN Australia is still the nation's economic powerhouse but a slowdown in the mining sector could lead to weaker spending and a softer jobs market. A report shows WA leads the other states in four of eight criteria over the past three months....

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Growth could slow in 2014 with price falls

AUSTRALIA'S growth could slow in 2014 and deliver headaches for business as commodity price falls put a brake on mining construction projects. Big mining projects that were approved a few years ago will drive output gains in the next two years,...

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Protesters try to storm Lebanese govt HQ

LEBANESE soldiers have fired machine guns and rifles into the air and lobbed volleys of tear gas at hundreds of angry protesters trying to storm the Lebanese government headquarters in Beirut. The chaotic scene in Lebanon's capital on Sunday...

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