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ESIDENTS fled their homes yesterday as savage wildfires blazed out of control in South Australia. Several homes were destroyed and more under threat, officials and witnesses told Agence France Presse (AFP). The

THE governor of the southern Colombian province of Caqueta, Luis Francisco Cuellar, has been found dead less than a day after he was kidnapped by suspected rebels, authorities say. The British Broadcasting

FOR Prince William, though a cold alley in central London is a far cry from a palace, but it was worth sleeping there to highlight the plight of homeless British teenagers. The

DOCUMENT allegedly showing plans by Tehran to test a nuclear bomb trigger has been dismissed by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a "United States forgery." According to a report by the British

DUMPING up to 40cm of snow in some areas, snarling up travel and cutting power supplies, a winter storm is gripping the eastern parts of United States U.S.) , claiming five lives.

IN accordance with President Barack Obama's pledged to shut Guantanamo Bay prison camp, Cuba by 2010, the United States (U.S.) has transferred 12 detainees from the detention centre to Afghanistan, Yemen and

IRAN'S most senior dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who emerged as the spiritual father of its reform movement, died yesterday at the age of 87, according to Associated Press (AP).

ISRAELI military officials yesterday said special commando units, unmanned spy planes and cellphone-jamming equipment could be used to enforce a moratorium on new settlement construction in the West Bank, deepening a showdown

AFTER a series of breakdowns trapped thousands in a tunnel for hours in claustrophobic conditions, the only rail link between Britain and France was closed for testing yesterday by the company managing

UNITED States' (U.S.) Ambassador to Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry, yesterday declared that no deadline exists for withdrawing American troops from Kabul, Agence France Presse (AFP) has reported. Also, Eikenberry reiterated the commitment of