Dubai plans world's largest mall, new city

DUBAI famed for its mega-projects before it was hit by the global financial crisis, has announced a new development to open the world's biggest mall and a park larger than London's Hyde Park. The ruler of the Gulf desert city state, Sheikh Mohammed...

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India to log 5.5% quarter growth: minister

INDIA'S economy logged around 5.5 per cent growth in the last financial quarter, a rate that could boost calls for lower interest rates to spur activity. India's once-booming economy has been hit by high interest rates, Europe's debt crisis that...

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Syria rebels attack army in Aleppo

SYRIAN rebels have attacked army positions in the northern province of Aleppo, while Islamist fighters clashed with Kurdish militias on the border with Turkey. Insurgents also attacked troops guarding the strategic Tishrin dam, located on the...

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Probe into attempt to set bear on fire

AN INQUIRY has been ordered into an attempt by a jeering mob to set a terrified bear on fire in northern Indian, a state minister said. Television footage showed the frightened bear scrambling up a tree in the state of Jammu and Kashmir as one...

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Mideast nuclear conference moved to 2013

UN leader Ban Ki-moon says he has given up hope of holding a conference on a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East this year, but hopes it can be held in 2013. Ban and Finnish special envoy Jaakko Laajava have been trying to persuade Middle...

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Postcard mailed during WWII arrives

A POSTCARD mailed nearly 70 years ago has finally arrived at the former upstate New York home of the couple who sent it. The postcard was sent July 4, 1943, from Rockford, Illinois, to sisters Pauline and Theresa Leisenring in Elmira, New York....

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Qatar man had new type of virus

A PATIENT from Qatar has been confirmed with a new type of coronavirus, but it has shown no signs of being easily transmitted like the related virus that caused the 2003 global SARS outbreak, Germany's national health institute said. As a precaution,...

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Thousands of civilians flee rebel advance

THOUSANDS of civilians have fled a rebel advance in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo as leaders prepared a summit on the crisis, which the UN says has blocked access to camps sheltering tens of thousands of displaced people. The M23 rebel...

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German-Swiss tax deal fails in parliament

THE German parliament has voted down a long-negotiated tax deal aimed at reining in German tax dodgers without upsetting Switzerland's cherished bank secrecy laws. Swiss bankers, who have put much energy into convincing Berlin to sign the deal,...

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Dolphin dies during disputed flight

A dolphin being flown from the Philippines to Singapore has died in transit. Source: Supplied ONE of 25 dolphins being transferred to a Singapore oceanarium despite protests from activists has died during its flight to the city-state. ...

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Kuwait bails tweeters after emir 'insults'

A KUWAITI court has freed three Twitter users on bail after detaining them for nine days for allegedly insulting the ruler of the oil-rich Gulf state, a rights activist says. A fourth tweeter however remained in detention as his case will be...

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Malala's wounded friends back in school

FOR one month the dreams kept coming. The voice, the shots, the blood. Her friend Malala slumped over. Shazia Ramazan, 13, who was wounded by the same Taliban gunman who shot her friend Malala Yousufzai, returned home last week after a month in...

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Israeli soldier dies of rocket wounds

AN Israeli reserves officer has died of wounds sustained in a rocket attack that occurred hours before a truce to end eight days of violence in and around Gaza was agreed between Israel and Hamas. A statement from the Israeli army named the...

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Girl dies in schoolies balcony fall

A TEENAGE girl has died after falling from the balcony of a high-rise hotel on the Gold Coast during schoolies celebrations. The girl, believed to be a schoolie, fell from the Chevron Renaissance tower in Surfers Paradise. Police will only say...

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Church vote needs explanation: leader

THE Church of England has much explaining to do following its failure to vote to allow women to serve as bishops, its leader says - and politicians from the prime minister downward are already demanding action or answers. One MP even suggested...

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US stocks creep higher in opening trade

US stocks have opened slightly higher as Wall Street awaited a batch of economic data and weighed another eurozone failure to agree on a crucial aid payment for Greece. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 8.34 points (0.07 per cent) at 12,796.85...

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Argentine experts find huge penguin fossil

ARGENTINE experts have discovered fossils of a two-metre tall penguin that lived in Antarctica 34 million years ago. Paleontologists with the Natural Sciences Museum of La Plata province, where the capital Buenos Aires is located, said the remains...

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NATO receives Turkey request for Patriots

NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen says the alliance has received a request from NATO member Turkey for a deployment of Patriot missiles to protect its troubled border with Syria. "I have received a letter from the Turkish government requesting...

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Scandal-hit US commander returns to Kabul

US General John Allen, under investigation for potentially inappropriate emails with a woman linked to a CIA sex scandal, has returned to Kabul to take up his duties as commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, his spokesman says. "He returned...

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UBS rogue trader jailed for 7 years

A ROGUE trader who lost $US2.2 billion ($A2.12 billion) in bad deals at Swiss bank UBS has been sentenced to 7 years in prison after being convicted in what prosecutors called the biggest fraud case in UK banking history. Ghanaian-born Kweku Adoboli,...

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Elmo actor resigns amid sex allegation

SESAME Workshop says Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash has resigned from Sesame Street in the wake of allegations that he had sex with an under-aged youth. Last week a man accused Clash of having sex with him when he was a teenage boy, a charge Clash...

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US stocks open lower after HP loss

US stocks have opened lower after Hewlett-Packard reported a quarterly loss due in part to a massive writedown, offsetting fresh data signalling recovery in the housing market. After a triple-digit gain on Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average...

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One dead in fresh Kenya violence

FRESH violence has broken out in Kenya's restive northeast, with one person killed and seven others shot and wounded, officials say, a day after security forces cracked down on rioters. Several other people were also hospitalised, some of them...

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Syria troops besiege town near Damascus

SYRIAN troops have besieged Daraya and rained shells on the town near Damascus, killing a woman and a child, in a fresh attempt to storm it, activists and a watchdog say. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported that at least 29 people...

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Speedster Clunes loses insurance gig

A STRING of speeding fines has cost British TV star Martin Clunes more than his driver's licence. The Doc Martin and Men Behaving Badly star, 50, has lost his job as the promotional face of UK insurance firm Churchill, after admitting to the...

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US stocks jump on 'fiscal cliff' hopes

US stocks have scored solid opening gains on hopes that political leaders will find a way to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff" of automatic tax hikes and spending cuts in January. After five minutes of trade on Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial...

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Intel to seek new CEO, Otellini to retire

COMPUTER chip giant Intel Corp has announced that chief executive Paul Otellini will retire in May, and that a search for a new CEO is under way. "The board of directors will conduct the process to choose Otellini's successor and will consider...

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Women, kids crushed in deadly stampede

Indian Hindu devotees cross a bamboo bridge as they gather to pay homage to the setting sun during Chhat Puja on the banks of the Ganges River in Patna. Picture: AFP Source: AFP AT LEAST 18 people have been killed and more than a dozen injured...

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US existing home sales jump

US existing home sales picked up in October despite the market in the northeast being shut down in the last days of the month by Hurricane Sandy, a realtors group says. Existing home sales rose 2.1 per cent over September, hitting an annual...

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Myanmar announces new prisoner amnesty

THE president of Myanmar (Burma) has ordered a new prisoner amnesty ahead of a historic visit to the country by US President Barack Obama. State television said President Thein Sein had ordered 66 detainees released, but it was not clear whether...

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Israel facing 'millions' of cyber-attacks

THE Israeli government has admitted it has become the victim of a mass cyber-warfare campaign with millions of attempts to hack state websites since the start of its Gaza offensive four days ago. Speaking ahead of the weekly cabinet meeting, Israeli...

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Egypt's new Coptic Pope enthroned

POPE Tawadros II has been enthroned as the new leader of Egypt's Coptic Christian minority in a ceremony at Cairo's St Mark's Cathedral attended by Prime Minister Hisham Qandil. Dozens of Coptic clerics in flowing robes took part in Sunday's ceremony,...

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Seven dead in Nairobi minibus attack

SEVEN people were killed and many more wounded when an apparent explosive device was hurled at a packed minibus in a predominantly Somali area of the Kenyan capital Nairobi, police and the Red Cross say. Nairobi police chief Moses Nyakwama said...

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Obama calls for more Myanmar reform

PRESIDENT Barack Obama has flexed US power in Asia on a regional tour that will make history when he lands in Myanmar (Burma), calling on its leaders to step up their startling political reform drive. Obama touched down in Air Force One in Bangkok...

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