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NEWS.com.au -
More than 350 people are feared missing after a boat accident in Papua New Guinea's northwest. Hundreds are feared dead after the MV Rabaul Queen sunk in PNG waters today.
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New York Times -
CAIRO - At least 73 people were killed in a brawl between rival groups of soccer fans after a match in the city of Port Said on Wednesday, the bloodiest outbreak of lawlessness since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak one year ago.
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ABC Online -
A NATO report made public yesterday suggests that the Taliban, backed by Pakistan, is set to retake control of Afghanistan after NATO-led forces withdraw.
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Los Angeles Times -
UN diplomats say they have made progress on a Security Council resolution, but challenges remain. About 70 more deaths are reported in Syria.
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Sydney Morning Herald -
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on Palestinians and Israelis to continue talks begun last month in Jordan. Ban said on Wednesday that Israel's West Bank settlements are a violation of international law and harm the chances for a peace ...
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Hindustan Times -
British Islamists (top LR) Mohammed Chowdhury, Shah Rahman and (bottom LR) Gurukanth Desai and Abdul Miah who pleaded guilty to plotting to blow up the London Stock Exchange in 2010.
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Herald Sun -
WikiLeaks to relocate servers offshore Plans to move to international waters Principality of Sealand the perfect location WIKILEAKS is reportedly planning to move its servers to international waters where “nobody can touch them”.
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The Guardian -
Israel must exploit its offensive capabilities in the battle against its enemies and "adapt our patterns of operations" to contend with new challenges, the country's military chief of staff said on Wednesday.
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Bloomberg -
Newt Gingrich's campaign distributed blue signs to supporters that read “46 States to Go” before he took the stage the night of his loss to Mitt Romney in Florida's Republican presidential primary this week.
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Wall Street Journal -
By NICHOLAS BARIYO As Chinese workers remained held in Sudan, others seized in Egypt were freed on Wednesday, above. KAMPALA, Uganda—The Sudanese rebel group holding 29 Chinese hostages demanded that Beijing persuade the government of Sudan to halt a ...
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New York Times -
SEOUL, South Korea - When Kim Jong-un made his debut as the North Korean heir apparent in September 2010, he looked so much like his grandfather, the closest thing North Koreans had to a god, that South Korean intelligence officials noted that many ...
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Herald Sun -
RESCUE helicopters have evacuated dozens of people from snow-blocked villages in Serbia and Bosnia as the death toll from a severe cold spell in Eastern Europe climbed to 83.
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New York Times -
CAIRO - The Muslim Brotherhood flexed its muscles here on Tuesday as hundreds of its young members linked arms to block a protest march from reaching Parliament while its lawmakers inside dominated the selection of leaders for legislative committees.
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Christian Science Monitor -
A strikingly few wealthy donors were the main 2011 contributors to super PACs, which analysts see as the main force behind a flood of negative campaign ads.
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The Guardian -
British diplomats have accused Argentina of plotting an economic blockade of the Falklands amid fears that Buenos Aires is attempting to stop all flights from Chile reaching the islands.
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Sydney Morning Herald -
RAW VISION: France's Socialist presidential candidate Francois Hollande was the target of a flour throwing attacking during a speech in Paris.
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Reuters -
By Isabel Coles | KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwaitis head to the polls Thursday for the fourth time in six years in a snap parliamentary election in which opposition candidates expect to expand their influence and push for change in the oil-exporting Gulf ...
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NEWS.com.au -
by: AP From: AP AT least 14 asylum seekers believed to be trying to reach Australia have drowned when their boat capsized off Malaysia.
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Reuters Africa -
By Joe Penney DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegal security forces used tear gas and flash grenades to disperse hundreds of rock-throwing youths in the capital Dakar on Wednesday, a day after a student was killed in mass anti-government protests.
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BBC News -
About 20 suspected insurgents have been killed in attacks by Pakistani jets near the Afghan border, officials say. They say that the airstrikes were in response to an ambush by the Taliban on Tuesday in which at least eight soldiers were killed and 25 ...
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