Japan wins spot in mega trade pact

JAPAN has won its bid to enter talks on a massive Pacific trade pact that includes Australia. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would account for more than 40 per cent of the global economy. Japan had to win over Canada to be included in the...

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120 dead, thousands injured in China quake

Hundreds of people are dead or injured after a 6.6 magnitude earthquake in China's Sichuan province. Source: AAP MORE than 120 people were killed and 3,000 injured when a strong earthquake hit a mountainous part of southwestern China destroying...

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China quake toll up to 113

The number of people killed in the Chinese earthquake has risen to 113, with at least 2,600 injured. Source: AAP THE earthquake that has struck the steep hills of China's southwestern Sichuan province has left at least 113 people dead and more...

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Female suicide bomber kills 4 in Pakistan

A female suicide bomber has blown herself up outside a hospital in Pakistan, killing four people. Source: AAP A FEMALE suicide bomber has blown herself up outside a hospital in a lawless tribal area of northwest Pakistan, killing at least...

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Man arrested over India girl's brutal rape

The kidnapping and brutal rape of a five-year-old Indian girl has triggered protests across India. Source: AAP A FIVE-YEAR-OLD Indian girl who was abducted, raped and tortured in New Delhi was alert and stable, doctors said, as fresh protests...

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Manhunt after first Boston suspect dies

US authorities say one of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing was killed in a firefight. Source: AAP ONE of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing is dead and a massive manhunt is underway for another, US authorities said early...

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Govt slammed for sending back Sri Lankans

The Australian Human Rights Commission says Australia may be fast tracking Sri Lankan boat arrivals. Source: AAP THE immigration department has been accused of denying 38 failed Sri Lankan asylum seekers access to legal advice before sending...

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Taiwan executes six death-row inmates

TAIWAN has executed six more death-row inmates, just a few months after the same number of prisoners were put to death, as the debate continued over the need for capital punishment. Three were executed in Tainan city in the island's south and...

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Taliban attack kills 13 Afghan police

Taliban insurgents killed 13 local policemen in an attack on a checkpoint in southeast Afghanistan. Source: AAP TALIBAN insurgents killed 13 local policemen while they were sleeping, in an attack on their checkpoint in southeast Afghanistan,...

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Boston lockdown as manhunt goes on

ONE of the Boston marathon bombing suspects was killed in a shootout early on Friday as police raced on a house-to-house search for the second, with the entire city placed on lockdown. NBC News reported that the two young men believed to be responsible...

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Many feared dead in Texas factory blast

Some 60 to 70 people have been killed by an explosion at a fertiliser plant in Texas. Source: AAP RESCUE workers are searching rubble for survivors of a fertiliser factory explosion in a small Texas town that has killed as many as 15 people...

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Rio targets cash from divestments: Walsh

RIO Tinto chief executive Sam Walsh says the company will focus on divesting non-core assets as it strives to save $US5 billion ($A4.87 billion) through to 2014. Addressing his first annual general meeting as chief executive, Mr Walsh said 2012's...

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Syria rebels claim strategic airbase

SYRIAN rebels have captured large parts of a strategic military airbase in the province of Homs where they are trying to expand areas under their control, an opposition group said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on...

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Warsaw ghetto survivor recalls war hell

SIMCHA "Kazik" Rotem was just 19 years old when the Nazis stormed the Warsaw ghetto, facing almost certain death in the gas chambers. But 70 years on, he recalled how he and a few hundred other poorly-armed young Jews opted for what he described...

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BMW head defends E-Mobility strategy

BMW boss Norbert Reithofer has defended his company's costly entry into the electric car market. Source: AAP BMW boss Norbert Reithofer has defended his company's costly entry into the electric car market, despite signs that German motorists...

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Britain bids farewell to Margaret Thatcher

Britain will pay its final respects to Baroness Thatcher at Wednesday's funeral. Source: AAP THOUSANDS of well-wishers have applauded Margaret Thatcher's coffin as it passed through the streets of London before a funeral filled with pomp and...

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Putin foe Navalny goes on trial in Russia

The trial of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on embezzlement charges has been adjounred. Source: AAP RUSSIAN opposition leader Alexei Navalny has gone on trial on charges he says were ordered by President Vladimir Putin to eliminate...

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Trial begins over faulty breast implants

Four executives and the founder of PIP are in court over the sale of faulty breast implants. Source: AAP FRANCE has launched one of its biggest-ever trials as five managers from company PIP faced charges of selling faulty breast implants that...

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Rocket attack kills 12 in central Syria

A GOVERNMENT rocket attack has killed at least 12 people in a village in central Syria, while rebels battled regime forces over two key military bases in the northeast where government troops broke an opposition siege last week, activists said. ...

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Vic protesters rally at community cabinet

MELBOURNE April 17 AAP - More than 100 protesters rallying against live animal exports have sought to leave their stamp on an otherwise subdued federal community cabinet meeting in the marginal Melbourne Labor seat of Deakin. The noisy protest,...

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Expert blames right-wing terrorists

THE fatal explosions in Boston have hints of a right-wing terrorist attack rather than al-Qaeda-inspired extremism, according to one of the world's leading experts on counter-terrorism. Richard Barrett, the former United Nations co-ordinator for...

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Italy seizes 1.8b euros from Nomura

ITALIAN police on Tuesday seized 1.8 billion euros ($A2.29 billion) destined for Nomura and placed the former chief of the Japanese bank's European operations under investigation in a fraud probe over a derivatives deal with troubled Italian lender...

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Thatcher's coffin heads to parliament

London's famous Big Ben will fall silent during Margaret Thatcher's funeral as a mark of respect. Source: AAP MARGARET Thatcher's coffin is to be taken to Britain's Houses of Parliament, allowing MPs to pay their last respects to the former...

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Benefit concert for ailing Doc Neeson

The music industry has raised $200,000 at a concert for The Angels frontman Doc Neeson. Source: AAP THE Australian rock community has a history of helping the less fortunate - from families made homeless by bushfires to victims of the Boxing...

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Tasmanian forest deal on edge again

Green groups could pull out of Tasmania's historic forests peace deal after an upper house vote. Source: AAP TASMANIA'S forests peace deal is on a knife's edge again after the state's upper house voted to delay the creation of reserves. ...

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Gold price rout could continue

The gold price could fall further after the commodity and miners of the precious metal were routed. Source: AAP THE rout of the gold price is expected to continue after holders of the precious metal and gold mining stocks were punished on Monday....

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Indian court convicts man over 2010 blast

AN Indian court has convicted a cyber cafe worker of murder over a bomb blast which ripped through a packed restaurant in the western city of Pune three years ago, killing 17 people. A lower court in Pune on Monday found Mirza Himayat Baig guilty...

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Abbott quizzed on gay marriage stance

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has repeatedly been questioned about his stance against gay marriage. Source: AAP OPPOSITION Leader Tony Abbott has repeatedly been questioned about his stance against gay marriage at a community forum in Sydney....

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24 dead in wave of bomb attacks in Iraq

DOZENS of attacks across Iraq, including a brazen car bombing en route to Baghdad airport, have killed at least 24 people just days before the country's first elections since US troops withdrew. The violence, which struck during morning rush hour...

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Bali investigators retrieve jet wreckage

Investigators have begun to retrieve the wreckage of the Lion Air plane that crashed off Bali. Source: AAP INDONESIAN investigators have begun retrieving the wreck of a Lion Air plane that crashed at Bali's airport, as accounts emerged of a...

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Syria troops 'break siege of army camps'

SYRIAN troops have broken a months-long rebel siege on two key military bases in the northwestern province of Idlib, killing at least 21 opposition fighters, activists say. "Regime forces managed to lift the siege on the Wadi Deif and Hamdiya...

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Five dead in Somalia courthouse attack

MILITANTS have launched a serious and sustained assault on Mogadishu's main court complex, detonating at least two blasts, taking an unknown number of hostages and exchanging extended volleys of gunfire with government security forces, witnesses...

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UK considers offshore asylum camps: report

BRITAIN could be about to follow Australia's lead by processing asylum seekers in offshore desert camps. Under a Tory plan to cut the number of unauthorised arrivals, "processing centres" would be set up in African countries to house people...

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First South Sudan oil reaches Sudan

SUDAN'S oil ministry says the first crude from South Sudan has reached its territory, bringing both impoverished countries closer to billions of dollars in revenue after a dispute over fees. "The first batch of oil already arrived on Sudanese...

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Unknown fault 'caused latest Japan quake'

A PREVIOUSLY unknown active fault may have caused the magnitude-6.3 earthquake in western Japan this weekend, a government committee says. Twenty-four people were injured and around 1930 houses were damaged by the 0533 quake on Saturday (0633...

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