Fifteen tied up and killed in Nigeria

SUSPECTED radical Islamist gunmen have attacked a village in northeast Nigeria, tying up men, women and children before slitting their throats and killing at least 15 in the troubled region's latest attack. The assault happened early on Friday...

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Swine flu kills nine Palestinians

NINE Palestinians have died in an outbreak of the H1N1 influenza strain known as swine flu, the office of Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad says. "Latest figures and information ... show that 187 cases have so far been recorded, the majority...

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Hanlong to buy Sundance: report

A PRIVATELY-owned Chinese company is finalising the acquisition of an Australian mining firm that controls a major iron ore mine in west Africa, China's official Xinhua News Agency reports. The move would give China a stronger role in setting...

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'Invisible Exhibition' opens eyes to blind

THE darkness is total. Mundane gestures suddenly become complicated. How do you find the door to your room, cook a meal or cross the road? The Invisible Exhibition in the Polish capital Warsaw offers an opportunity to understand what it is like...

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Road trip on tap for NASA's Mars rover

SINCE captivating the world with its acrobatic landing, the Mars rover Curiosity has fallen into a rhythm: Drive, snap pictures, zap at boulders, scoop up dirt. Repeat. Topping its to-do list in the new year: Set off toward a Martian mountain...

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WA bushfire destroys sheds, fences

A NUMBER of sheds and fences have been destroyed in a bushfire east of Perth. The fire in Chidlow was reported shortly before 8pm (WST) on Thursday and took several hours to bring under control. Fire and Rescue Service and Bush Fire Service...

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'Rescue Me' singer Fontella Bass dies

FONTELLA Bass, a St. Louis-born soul singer who hit the top of the R&B charts with "Rescue Me" in 1965, has died The singer's daughter, Neuka Mitchell, says Bass died at a St. Louis hospice Wednesday night of complications from a heart attack...

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Apple CEO takes sharp pay cut

APPLE CEO Tim Cook got a relatively modest $US4.2 million ($4 million) in pay for the latest fiscal year, after the company's board set him up with stock now worth $US510 million for taking the reins in 2011. Mr Cook's pay for fiscal 2012, which...

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Egypt prosecutor orders opposition probe

EGYPT'S public prosecutor has ordered a probe into the top three leaders of the opposition on suspicion of trying to incite followers to overthrow President Mohamed Morsi, a legal source says. The prosecutor, Taalat Ibrahim Abdallah, who was...

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Zuma in doghouse after pet comments

SOUTH African President Jacob Zuma got himself into a spot of bother when he suggested that owning a dog was not African and belonged to white culture. Local media reported that Zuma had remarked that buying a dog, taking it for walks and paying...

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Tube strike can't stop London shoppers

STRIKE action has heavily disrupted London's Underground train network, as hundreds of thousands of bargain hunters headed to the shops for the traditional Boxing Day sales. All 13 of the Tube lines were running a reduced service after just...

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National holiday road toll reaches 17

AUSTRALIA'S national road toll stands at 17 after a man was killed in a single car accident in Western Australia. Perth Now reports the man died when his car flipped on the North West Coastal Highway at Yannarie, which is about 1200km north...

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US stocks up ahead of 'fiscal cliff' talks

US stocks have opened slightly higher, as President Barack Obama heads back to Washington to try to secure a year-end "fiscal cliff" deal with Republican lawmakers. In roughly the first 15 minutes of trade on Wednesday, the Dow Jones Industrial...

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Spain seizes 11 tonnes of hashish

SPANISH police have seized 11 tonnes of hashish smuggled from Morocco on trucks with fuel tanks rigged to hide the drugs and arrested 35 people in what has been described as the breakup of a major smuggling ring feeding the European market. The...

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Oil rises on housing data

THE price of oil is rising sharply on higher US home prices and hopes of a budget deal in Washington. US benchmark crude jumped $2.31, or 2.6 per cent, to $90.92 a barrel overnight in thin post-Christmas trading. US home prices rose in most...

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Morocco busts Qaida recruitment cell

MOROCCAN authorities said they had broken up a recruitment cell for al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb in the central Fez region, after announcing the discovery of a jihadist network last month. "The police, in coordination with the leadership...

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Egypt court frees Mubarak-era Senate chief

AN Egyptian court has freed the former Senate leader under ousted president Hosni Mubarak on bail, after spending the maximum permitted 18 months in jail awaiting his corruption trial, the official MENA news agency reports. Safwat al-Sherif,...

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Iran begins naval war games

IRAN has launched naval manoeuvres in the Gulf, and announced plans for another exercise in the strategic Strait of Hormuz later this week, media reports said. Revolutionary Guards naval units began a four-day exercise inside Iranian waters at...

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17 killed as Yemen army, tribesmen clash

YEMEN'S army has launched an offensive against tribesmen suspected of repeatedly sabotaging an oil pipeline in the country's east, sparking clashes that left 17 people dead, tribal sources say. The dead included 10 tribesmen and seven soldiers,...

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Military plane crashes, killing 27

KAZAKHSTAN'S acting border service chief was among 27 people killed in a military plane crash near a southern city, authorities said. The An-72 crashed at 1255 GMT (11.55pm AEDT) about 20 kilometres away from the city of Shymkent near the border...

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Two firefighters shot dead in US

THE police chief in Webster, New York, says that four firefighters were shot while responding to a blaze in the town and that two are dead. Chief Gerald Pickering says "one or more shooters" fired at the firefighters Monday morning. Officials say...

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Top Putin foe Navalny faces new charges

RUSSIAN investigators have opened their third criminal case in five months against an opposition leader who poses one of the main challenges to President Vladimir Putin in opinion polls. The Investigative Committee said it had charged anti-corruption...

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Mandela spends Christmas in hospital

AILING icon Nelson Mandela is spending Christmas Day in hospital, the South African government says, dashing hopes for a festive end to his longest stay in care since being released from prison in 1990. "Former president Nelson Mandela will spend...

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Jobs estate pays to free impounded yacht

STEVE Jobs' superyacht Venus is free to leave Amsterdam port after the late Apple co-founder's estate paid a deposit to resolve a dispute with designer Philippe Starck, who had the yacht impounded. "The Venus is no longer impounded, we have found...

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Missing teen fails to return from surfing

A 15-YEAR-OLD boy who told his parents he was going surfing on Saturday is missing from the NSW north coast. Tyson Cetinich was last seen about 10am (AEDT) on Saturday by his parents at his home in Bogangar. Police were told Tyson left home...

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NRA: Public wants armed guards in schools

NATIONAL Rifle Association executive Wayne LaPierre says the American people think it would be "crazy" not to put armed guards in every school, as the group has suggested in the wake of the massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut....

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Turkey lifts NATO Israel veto

NATO member Turkey has agreed to lift its veto on non-military co-operation between the alliance and Israel, which it imposed over a deadly raid on a Turkish aid ship to Gaza in 2010, a diplomat says. Ankara took the retaliatory measure after...

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Air strike on Syria bakery kills dozens

AN air strike near a bakery in the rebel-held town of Halfaya in the central Syrian province of Hama has killed dozens of people, a monitoring group says. "Dozens of people were killed in an air strike on Halfaya," said the Syrian Observatory...

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US public want guards in every school: NRA

THE largest US gun rights lobbying organisation is sticking to its call for placing armed police officers and security guards in every school as the best way to avoid shootings such as the recent massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut....

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Japan PM steps up pressure on central bank

JAPAN'S incoming prime minister Shinzo Abe has stepped up pressure on the Bank of Japan to set a two per cent inflation target, threatening to change a law guaranteeing the bank's independence if it does not agree. Speaking on Fuji Television...

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