20/08/2008 | Georgia and Russia have exchanged prisoners but Moscow says not to expect a rapid troop withdrawal.
19/08/2008 | Controversy over the allegedly under-aged Chinese gymnast He Kexin takes a new and unexpected twist.
19/08/2008 | EVIDENCE has emerged raising doubts that East Timor's President, Jose Ramos-Horta, was shot and almost killed by a member of the late rebel leader Alfredo Reinado's gang.
19/08/2008 | PAKISTAN'S President Pervez Musharraf, a key Western ally in the fight against terrorism, has chosen to resign rather than face impeachment by his political foes in the governing coalition.
19/08/2008 | A plan to retain Russian "peacekeepers" in the embattled Caucasus republic of Georgia has sparked new tensions.
18/08/2008 | Taiwan's former president, Chen Shui-bian, has been barred from leaving the country as an investigation into allegations of money laundering expanded.
18/08/2008 | KHALIL HANUN'S 35-year legal fight to prevent a Jewish settler group from taking possession of his home in disputed East Jerusalem will enter a critical phase this week when an Israeli court decides whether to keep him in jail for disobeying orders to vacate the property.
18/08/2008 | An Australian journalist in San Francisco, Margot Denney, writes that life in the Californian education system falls short of the American dream.
18/08/2008 | Today, 50 years after the US military's nuclear tests on the Marshall Islands ended, islanders are still fighting to make their environment safe. A US radioactive dump is cracking up, but Washington is refusing to spend any more money on a clean-up. Ivan Broadhead reports.
17/08/2008 | Dozens of strangers helped lift a 4.5-tonne bus off a pregnant woman in New York - a heroic effort that saved the life of her child but was too late for her.
17/08/2008 | SERBIA has predicted that fugitive general Ratko Mladic will be apprehended soon and put on trial at the UN war crimes tribunal.
17/08/2008 | AT LEAST 18 people, including five Italian tourists, were killed yesterday when two buses and a pick-up truck crashed in the Dominican Republic.
17/08/2008 | EIGHT men were arrested in Antigua yesterday in connection with the murder of a Welsh couple who were on their honeymoon on the Caribbean island.
17/08/2008 | A TEXAS school district will allow its 50 teachers and staff members to carry concealed firearms when classes begin this month to protect against school shootings.
17/08/2008 | Bigfoot lived in northern Georgia and his cousins are still there. At least that's what a pair of hunters and a Californian Bigfoot expert cum promoter continue to claim.
17/08/2008 | RUSSIAN troops dug in close to the Georgian capital yesterday, showing no sign of preparing to withdraw, as pressure mounted on Moscow to stick to a French-brokered ceasefire.
17/08/2008 | Wider crematorium furnaces will have to be built across Britain to cater for "stouter clients" as the obesity epidemic continues.
16/08/2008 | SERIOUS concerns are held for six Australian climbers missing on a New Zealand mountain range after they spent another night in atrocious conditions, which are hampering rescue efforts.
16/08/2008 | Olympic food safety rules reveal wider problems in China's bureaucracy, writes John Garnaut
16/08/2008 | Georgia overplayed its hand this week, and Russia got to build its trumps, writes Paul McGeough.