UK government wins Snowden case

A BRITISH court has ruled the UK government may look through items seized from the partner of a journalist who has written stories about documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. Lawyers for David Miranda,...

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Brooks' phone hacking trial delayed in UK

THE trial of former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks over allegations of phone hacking at the News of the World has been delayed for legal reasons. The trial of Brooks and seven other defendants, including Prime Minister David...

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Fund for slain Aussie nears $US100,000

AN online fund set up by a mate of murdered Australian Chris Lane to help pay for funeral expenses has been deluged with almost $US100,000 ($A112,000) in donations from people around the world. When Marshall Veal, who played baseball with Mr Lane...

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Kenya jails Chinese ivory smuggler

A KENYAN court has sentenced a Chinese ivory smuggler to 31 months in prison, signalling harsher penalties for wildlife crimes. Chen Biemei was arrested on August 14 at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in the capital Nairobi with 6.9kg of...

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German neo-Nazi probe finds errors

A GERMAN parliamentary investigation into a far-right murder spree that went undetected for years has found that security services made scores of errors, partially because of institutional bias against immigrants. The nearly 1400-page report,...

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Strong earthquake shakes central Mexico

A MAGNITUDE-6.0 earthquake has rattled southern and central areas of Mexic, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported, but there were no initial reports of damage or injuries. Its epicentre was located 13km northwest of San Marcos, near the Pacific...

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Manning sentenced to 35 years in prison

A JUDGE has sentenced Bradley Manning to 35 years in prison for providing a trove of classified documents to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. The judge convicted the 25-year-old in July of 20 offences, including six violations of the Espionage...

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Nine charged in UK hacking probe

A SENIOR Sun journalist, a former Daily Mirror journalist, a police officer and a prison officer are among nine people to be charged as part of an ongoing probe into British media wrongdoing. Graham Dudman, former managing editor of The Sun; John...

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Crime novelist Elmore Leonard dies at 87

ELMORE Leonard, a former adman who later in life became one of America's foremost crime writers, has died. He was 87. His researcher, Gregg Sutter, says Elmore passed away on Tuesday morning from complications from a stroke. Leonard's books...

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Six killed in attacks in northern Iraq

SIX people have been killed in attacks in Iraq, as gunmen defy massive government operations to stem the violence. Security forces have mounted some of the biggest operations targeting militants since the 2011 withdrawal of American troops,...

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Trio set to face court over Lane death

THE three boys who allegedly shot dead Australian baseballer Chris Lane are expected to appear in an Oklahoma court. Prosecutors will announce if the boys - aged 15, 16 and 17 - will be charged with first degree murder and be tried as adults....

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Czech Republic to hold snap election

POLITICIANS have voted to dissolve parliament's lower house and hold an early election in the Czech Republic, following a coalition government's collapse over scandals. On Tuesday all but seven of the 147 legislators present approved the early...

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Mexico kids learning with flawed textbooks

MEXICAN children are trooping back into their classrooms on Monday, and they're going to have a quick lesson: Not just school kids make mistakes. Their brand new textbooks have the kinds of errors that they are supposed to be learning not to...

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China floods toll passes 100

DEVASTATING floods at opposite ends of China have left 105 people dead and another 115 missing in recent days. Flooding in the northeast that left 72 people dead was described as "the worst in decades" by state news agency Xinhua, while another...

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Saudi man forklifted to hospital

A SAUDI man weighing 610kg was forklifted to hospital on Monday for medical treatment at the expense of the monarch to reduce his weight. Khaled Mohsin Shairi was flown from his southwestern hometown of Jizan to Riyadh on a specially-equipped...

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Deadly attack on police as Egypt escalates

MILITANTS have killed 25 Egyptian policemen in the deadliest attack of its kind in years. It comes as the army-installed rulers escalate a campaign to crush ousted president Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood. The assailants fired rocket-propelled...

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British warship docks in Gibraltar

A BRITISH warship docked has Gibraltar in a pre-planned naval exercise as European leaders worked to calm a row between Britain and Spain over sovereignty and fishing rights. The Type 23 frigate, equipped with a weapons system including a torpedo...

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