7:45 AM AEST | THE President of East Timor, Jose Ramos-Horta, has criticised Australian authorities for taking five years to DNA-test a headless skeleton believed to be that of his country's hero Nicolau Lobato.
3:00 AM AEST | ILLNESS has forced him from public view but Fidel Castro is back in Cuban living rooms via a lavish television series that celebrates his avoidance of 638 assassination plots.
3:00 AM AEST | ROME: The Kepler scientific secondary school has sparked a national controversy by becoming the first in the Italian education system to install condom vending machines.
3:00 AM AEST | HEALTHY, elderly people who are simply ''tired of living'' could be allowed to end their lives with a lethal injection under new euthanasia laws being debated by the Dutch parliament.
3:00 AM AEST | PARIS: Carla Bruni has done little to end speculation about her relationship with Nicolas Sarkozy by giving a half-hearted response when asked whether her marriage was ''for ever''.
3:00 AM AEST | LONDON: The British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has set the stage for an election on May 6, pitching his tenacity and credentials as an economic manager to lead Britain to recovery.
3:00 AM AEST | WASHINGTON: Doing what he does best appears to be paying off for Barack Obama.
3:00 AM AEST | LONDON: It was a campaign of terror that would last 35 years, a father who repeatedly raped his daughters, making them pregnant 18 times and producing seven babies, some born with severe genetic defects.
3:00 AM AEST | PARIS: In 1951 a quiet village in southern France was suddenly and mysteriously struck down with mass insanity and hallucinations. At least five people died, dozens were committed to asylums and hundreds afflicted.
3:00 AM AEST | THE Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, was set to withdraw from all peace talks with Israel last night after the announcement this week that 1600 apartments would be added to Jewish settlements in occupied East Jerusalem.
3:00 AM AEST | STEPHEN SMITH has joined a chorus of international criticism of Israel over its controversial approval of thousands of new settler homes, which threatens to scupper US-brokered Middle East peace talks.
3:00 AM AEST | AN AUSTRALIAN arrested and held for nearly three weeks for organising a protest against the Copenhagen climate change conference has been charged with offences commonly used in terrorism cases.
11 Mar 10 | BELFAST: Northern Ireland's MPs have approved a landmark deal transferring crucial powers from London to Belfast, with the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, hailing the agreement as the ''final end'' to decades of conflict.
11 Mar 10 | PARIS: For 15 minutes, in a Paris drawing room flounced with gilt, Alexander McQueen came back to life.
11 Mar 10 | ROME: The Pope's brother, Georg Ratzinger, has admitted slapping boys and failing to report physical abuse as scandal intensifies around sexual abuse in German boarding schools where he taught choir in the 1960s.
11 Mar 10 | JERUSALEM: Israel's Defence Ministry has denounced an announcement that 1600 new settler homes would be built in East Jerusalem, made hours after the US Vice-President, Joe Biden, vowed unyielding support for Israel's security.
11 Mar 10 | LONDON: US intelligence agencies misled allies, including Britain, about US mistreatment of suspected terrorists, the former head of MI5 has said.
11 Mar 10 | WASHINGTON: It is a terrifying image transfixing Washington: President Barack Obama's bruising enforcer, Rahm Emanuel, naked in a communal shower, berating a congressman over perceived political cowardice.
11 Mar 10 | BANGKOK: Australians have been warned about travelling to Bangkok this weekend, as fears grow that huge anti-government protests will turn violent.
11 Mar 10 | NEW DELHI: Indian MPs have approved a historic bill that sets aside one-third of all legislative seats for women.
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