Chinese officials punished for demolition

CHINESE state media say 17 officials and workers have been punished after two people died during the forced demolition of a building. The official Xinhua News Agency says a cement board fell from the illegally constructed building as it was...

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Attack planned in Pakistan: Karzai

AFGHAN President Hamid Karzai says a suicide attack that wounded the country's spy chief was planned in neighbouring Pakistan. Asadullah Khalid, who heads the National Directorate of Security (NDS), was targeted by an attacker with a bomb hidden...

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Gazans mass for Hamas anniversary

MORE than 100,000 Palestinians have gathered in Gaza for a rally marking the 25th anniversary of Hamas to be addressed by the ruling Islamist movement's leader in exile. Politburo chief Khaled Meshaal crossed from Egypt on Friday on his first...

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Taiwan finance 'titan' Koo dies at 79

TAIWANESE tycoon Jeffrey L.S. Koo, head of a leading financial group and one of the island's richest men, has died at the age of 79, his company says. Koo, chairman of Chinatrust Financial Holding Co, died at a hospital in New York on Thursday,...

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Pakistani Taliban recruits via Facebook

THE Pakistani Taliban has set up a page on Facebook to recruit enthusiasts to write for a quarterly magazine and to edit video, a spokesman confirmed. The Umar Media TTP page, which has more than 270 likes, appears to have been created in September...

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Man arrested after Vic stabbing and siege

A MAN who fled during the 10 minutes it took police to cordon off a Melbourne home following a stabbing will face court on Monday. Police were preparing to storm a house in St Albans where another man, 52, was believed to have been stabbed in...

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Obama aide shaves mustache for charity

SENIOR adviser to US President Barack Obama David Axelrod shaved his trademark mustache - a rarity in official Washington - live on TV Friday after raising $US1 million for epilepsy research. "We're cutting it off because there are people who...

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US unemployment rate falls to 7.7 pc

THE US economy added a solid 146,000 jobs in November and the unemployment rate fell to 7.7 per cent, the lowest since December 2008. The US government said Superstorm Sandy had only a minimal effect on the figures. The US Labour Department...

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ECB holds rates, holds off on more easing

THE European Central Bank (ECB) has left its key interest rate unchanged at a record low, holding off on further stimulus even as the economy across the 17 European Union countries that use the euro limps through a recession. The bank's 22-member...

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Hugh Jackman still eyes 007 role

HUGH Jackman is ready to don a tux and sip a martini with the Aussie screen star joking that he is willing to wait for his chance to play famous fictitious British spy James Bond. Jackman, 44, said he was too busy playing Wolverine in the X-Men...

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China car sales on track for record: GM

US car giant General Motors (GM) says its full-year sales in China, the world's biggest auto market, will surpass last year's 2.55 million and set a new record. In the first 11 months, sales of GM and its ventures in China surged 10.4 per cent...

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HK leader warns of housing 'talent drain'

HONG Kong's leader says the Chinese city needs to boost its housing supply and create more living space or the "best and the brightest" talents of the next generation will go elsewhere. Property prices in Hong Kong, one of the world's most densely...

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Coal, gas outburst kills 17 Chinese miners

AN accident in a coal mine in southwest China killed 17 miners on Wednesday, while 11 workers were still missing three days after another mine flooded in the northeast, state media reported. The official Xinhua News Agency said there was an...

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The Boss is coming back to Australia

BRUCE Springsteen and the E Street Band have announced their first tour of Australia in more than a decade. The Boss will play across Australia's east coast in March, with shows in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, along with an outdoor show at...

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Spate of violence hits Nigerian city

ATTACKERS have thrown homemade bombs at a bus, a blast went off near a police station and two policemen have been shot dead in a spate of attacks in the Nigerian city of Kano, officials say. It was not clear who was behind the violence which began...

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Britain slashes economic growth forecasts

THE British economy is heading for shrinkage of 0.1 per cent in 2012 and would grow by less than expected in coming years, official government figures show. The revised 2012 forecast, issued by the coalition's fiscal watchdog, compared with...

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Ship sinks off Istanbul; 12 crew missing

TURKISH rescuers are searching for the crew of a cargo ship that has sunk in a storm in the Black Sea while a second ship is in danger of being overturned by high waves, officials say. The St Kitts and Nevis-flagged ship, Volgo Balt 199, with...

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Parents' decision to go public: Telegraph

PRINCE William and his wife Catherine made the decision to go public with news of a royal pregnancy and scrambled to tell family and friends before the story broke on social media, say reports in London. Even the Queen, 86, who receives daily...

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Fish-luring devices divide tuna meeting

PACIFIC nations have argued at a key meeting in Manila over how best to regulate devices that attract tuna amid growing concern over depleted stocks. A call to extend an annual ban on fish aggregating devices (FADs) to four months was among the...

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China's Xi vows to rule by law

CHINA'S newly appointed leader Xi Jinping pledged on Tuesday to implement rule of law, in comments that appeared aimed at rising social discontent over government corruption and police brutality. In a speech at the Great Hall of the People that...

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Sender of first text message 'amazed'

THE British software engineer who sent the world's first text message 20 years ago said on Monday that he is amazed at how the technology has developed. The engineer, Neil Papworth, was chosen by chance to send the message -- which read "Merry...

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UK to cut down on corporate tax avoidance

THE British government said on Monday it would spend more money catching tax avoiders, after an MPs' committee accused major multinational companies including Starbucks, Google and Amazon of "immorally" dodging tax. The companies insisted they...

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Students want sex ed sooner: study

HIGH school students want sex education sooner and topics including pregnancy and puberty taught in primary school, a study has found. But most teachers of grade five and six students are uncomfortable talking about the reproductive system in...

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News Corp announces end of The Daily

NEWS Corp has announced a new head of its British newspaper arm and said it was ending publication of its iPad app, The Daily. The media conglomerate said Mike Darcy, a former chief operating officer of BSkyB, will replace Tom Mockridge as CEO...

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Chinese court wants apology

A CHINESE court wants an apology from a newspaper which said it jailed 10 "interceptors" who held people trying to complain about the government. The state-run Beijing Youth Daily reported overnight that 10 were imprisoned for illegally detaining...

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Productivity in mining a disaster: BIS

THE mining sector's labour productivity is a disaster that will block much future job growth in the industry, says a new report. Pressure from lower commodity prices, high and rising costs and the lowest labour productivity in a generation had...

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Productivity in mining a disaster: BIS

THE mining sector's labour productivity is a disaster that will block much future job growth in the industry, says a new report. Pressure from lower commodity prices, high and rising costs and the lowest labour productivity in a generation had...

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Geithner invites Republican counter-offer

US PRESIDENT Barack Obama is ready for tough concessions to reach a deficit deal, but Republicans must commit to higher tax rates on the rich. That was the view of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner who made appearances on five Sunday talk shows...

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