Kenya to toughen poaching sentences

Poaching has recently risen in east Africa, with whole herds of elephants massacred for their ivory. Source: AAP KENYA plans to bolster lenient sentences for convicted wildlife poachers or ivory smugglers in a bid to stamp out a spike in elephant...

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UK warns of terror attack in Somalia

THE British government says it believes terrorists are in the final stages of planning attacks in Somalia and urged UK nationals to leave the country. The Foreign Office already advises against all travel to Somalia, including Somaliland, where...

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Italian police find tonne of hashish

ITALIAN police have uncovered a tonne of hashish worth 15 million euros ($A18.7 million) in a frozen foods truck carrying potatoes and arrested its Dutch driver. The police said they became suspicious when they noticed the truck on the outskirts...

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Don't bank on Korea evacuation: DFAT

Tensions in North Korea could escalate quickly, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs says. Source: AAP AUSTRALIANS in South Korea shouldn't assume the government will be able to evacuate them if the threat of war on the peninsular...

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New PM vows to guard Lebanon from Syria

LEBANON'S newly named Prime Minister Tamam Salam pledged in his first speech to safeguard the country's security from the war raging in neighbouring Syria. "There is a need to bring Lebanon out of its state of division and political fragmentation,...

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Rocket attack in Syrian capital kills five

A BARRAGE of rockets has slammed into a contested district on the northeastern edge of Damascus, killing at least five people and trapping others under the rubble, while violence raged around suburbs of the capital, activists say. The attack on...

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Fukushima fuel cooling system stops again

ONE of the cooling systems for spent atomic fuel at the Fukushima nuclear plant has temporarily failed, the second outage in a matter of weeks, underlining ongoing instability at the plant. Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) said an alarm sounded at...

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Ben Ali's brother-in-law dies in custody

MONCEF Trabelsi, the brother-in-law of ousted Tunisian strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali who was jailed for fraud, has died in custody of a brain tumour, the country's prisons chief says. "He died at the neurological hospital where he was taken...

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UK woman 'killed family' in web of lies

A BRITISH social worker has been struck off after lying to bosses about the deaths of her father, mother, uncle, aunt, brother and ex-husband to get time off work. Rachael Miles took 66 days off work with Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council,...

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Panicked Cypriots queue at banks

European Central Bank boss Mario Draghi says Cyprus' bailout was poorly managed and "not smart". Source: AAP PANICKED Cypriots have queued outside banks on rumours that a new levy would be imposed on deposits as part of a bailout, but the authorities...

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Saudi 'paralysis' sentence attacked

THE reported sentencing to paralysis for a Saudi man for a crime he committed as a 14-year-old has been condemned as "grotesque" by Britain's Foreign Office (FCO). The punishment, which was reportedly handed down to 24-year-old Ali al-Khawahir...

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Revealing UK sales for men's underwear

MEN'S underwear is revealing itself to be a recession-busting item, with one major British retailer noticing a 28 per cent increase in sales since the start of the year. Selfridges likened sales of men's "bodywear" - underwear, sleepwear and socks...

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NYC fast food workers plan job action

NEW York City fast food workers are rallying for higher wages. Organisers say hundreds of workers plan to demonstrate on Thursday at dozens of fast food establishments, including McDonald's, Domino's, Wendy's and Pizza Hut. They want fast food...

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NSW woman dies after car rolls in crash

A YOUNG woman has died after her car rolled in an accident on the NSW mid-north coast. The car was travelling along The Lakes Way at Rainbow Flat, south of Taree about 2.20pm (AEDT) on Thursday when it rolled down an embankment, police said....

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NSW police nab boy over BMX bandit robbery

A 15-YEAR-OLD boy has been charged after a bottle shop in NSW's Southern Highlands was robbed by a knife-wielding youth who fled off on a BMX bike. The youth was spotted stashing cigarettes and bottles of liquor into his backpack at the Mittagong...

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66 Tibet landslide bodies recovered

CHINESE rescue crews have recovered 66 bodies in the aftermath of a huge landslide in Tibet that buried more than 80 mine workers. State media said on Wednesday 83 people were buried on Friday when a vast volume of rock crashed down a mountainside...

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Asian markets mostly lower, Tokyo jumps

TOKYO stocks have jumped with the yen weakening as the Bank of Japan starts a key two-day policy meeting, while shares in other major Asian markets have mostly fallen despite Wall Street's surging to a record high. Tokyo jumped 2.99 per cent,...

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Now seven UK social classes

THE British public no longer fit in to just three social classes, a major new study has discovered. Instead, the findings suggest people are divided into seven different classes based on economic, social and cultural measures. More than 160,000...

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Thousands of shareholders sue RBS for $6b

ROYAL Bank of Scotland shareholders have filed a 4 billion pound ($A5.77 billion) lawsuit against the company, claiming they were misled into thinking the bank was healthy just before its collapse. A group representing 12,000 investors said...

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African forces suspend hunt for Kony

UGANDA'S top military official says African Union troops have suspended the hunt for the fugitive warlord Joseph Kony in Central African Republic because the new government there is not co-operating with the mission. General Aronda Nyakairima,...

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Rodwell helps pursue Philippine kidnappers

FREED Australian hostage Warren Rodwell met with a Philippine prosecutor to help prepare charges against the Islamic extremists who held him in captivity for 15 months. A gaunt, grim-looking Rodwell, who was in a wheelchair and escorted by Australian...

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Police accused of helping people smugglers

People smugglers in Indonesia say they are not threatened by the Australian government's policies. Source: AAP PEOPLE smugglers operating out of Indonesia say they are not threatened by the Australian government's border protection policies,...

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Afghan teenager fatally stabs US soldier

AN Afghan teenager has killed an American soldier in eastern Afghanistan by stabbing him in the neck while he played with a group of local children, officials say. The killing comes as the monthly US death toll rose sharply in March to 14 with...

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Qld cops see double over drink drivers

QUEENSLAND police have pulled over the same car four times in one afternoon, resulting in drink driving charges for a man and woman who took turns in the driver's seat. Officers first stopped the vehicle on North Stradbroke Island, southeast...

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Asian markets fall

ASIAN markets slipped in holiday-hit trade Monday, with investors unimpressed by a slight improvement in key economic indicators out of China and Tokyo. The yen climbed against the dollar and euro ahead of a Bank of Japan (BoJ) policy meeting...

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Sea 'too loud' for cruise passenger

COMPLAINTS by cruise ship passengers include one by a woman who moaned about the sea being "too loud", it has been revealed. And a couple accused a captain of being "rude" for sailing off when they had left a note saying they needed more sightseeing...

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Karzai to hold talks in Qatar on Taliban

AFGHAN President Hamid Karzai is set to hold discussions in Qatar about the opening of a Taliban office in the Gulf state as a prelude to possible talks on ending more than a decade of war. Karzai previously opposed such a Qatar venue since he...

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Alarm over child solidier killings in CAR

SOUTH African soldiers who survived last week's rebel takeover of the Central African Republic are traumatised after discovering later that some of the rebels killed were child soldiers, local Sunday newspapers reported. In what has turned out...

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N Korea vows to strengthen nuclear weapons

NORTH Korea has vowed to strengthen its nuclear weapons, a day after announcing it is in a "state of war" with South Korea, and says it will never trade its atomic deterrent for aid. Tensions have risen sharply on the peninsula since the United...

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Clashes erupt in Mali's Timbuktu

MALIAN troops backed by French forces have clashed with Islamist fighters who infiltrated the northern city of Timbuktu, leaving two jihadists dead and four Malian soldiers wounded. "Jihadists have infiltrated the centre of Timbuktu ... Our...

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