4:00 AM AEDT | ABUJA: Nigeria has recalled its ambassador to Tripoli after the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, suggested that the country be partitioned between Muslims and Christians.
4:00 AM AEDT | This city does not like being associated with high-profile trouble, writes Andrew Stevenson.
4:00 AM AEDT | CHINA has agreed to write off 80 per cent of the debt accrued by Iraq under Saddam Hussein, Iraq's Finance Ministry said.
4:00 AM AEDT | Today marks seven years since the US invaded Iraq and overthrew Saddam Hussein. While the Iraqis have freedom, their fragile democracy is blighted by violence, corruption and barely functioning infrastructure, Jason Koutsoukis reports.
4:00 AM AEDT | LONDON: Kai Eide, the UN's special representative to Afghanistan until this month, has criticised Pakistan for arresting prominent Taliban leaders who were taking part in back-channel peace talks.
4:00 AM AEDT | The capture of the Taliban's No.2 raises the stakes in the expected reconciliation talks, writes Paul McGeough.
4:00 AM AEDT | SHANGHAI: Google will close its business in China next month and may announce its plans as early as Monday, Chinese media reported yesterday, after a protracted argument between the company and the Chinese government over censorship and hacking.
4:00 AM AEDT | SACRAMENTO: Hooters managers scrutinise everything from employees' hair and fingernails to their skimpy uniforms, and require them to make unpaid promotional appearances, California restaurant workers say.
4:00 AM AEDT | DOHA: Fishing nations have voted down environmentalists, with a US-backed proposal to ban export of the Atlantic bluefin tuna overwhelmingly rejected at a UN wildlife meeting. The decision has been described as the end for the species.
4:00 AM AEDT | JERUSALEM: The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has pledged to implement a series of trust-building measures with the Palestinians in an attempt to mend his fractured relationship with the US.
4:00 AM AEDT | Sexual identity can be complicated in India, where few men are brave enough to call themselves gay, writes Matt Wade.
4:00 AM AEDT | One of the world's most eminent astrophysicists and the president of the Royal Society, Lord Rees of Ludlow, believes the global village is ripe for salvation, writes Paola Totaro.
4:00 AM AEDT | The US President has shaken off his loser image as he fights, hustings-style, for a new healthcare program. Simon Mann reports.
19 Mar 10 | JOHANNESBURG: A row has erupted in South Africa after it emerged taxpayers are spending more than 15.5 million rand ($2.3 million) a year to support the President's three wives and some of his 20 children.
19 Mar 10 | KAMPALA: Security forces shot and killed at least three people and wounded several others in clashes with protesters after a fire that gutted the tombs of four traditional kings in the Ugandan capital of Kampala.
19 Mar 10 | TURKEY has threatened to expel 100,000 Armenians from the country in response to a US congressional committee branding the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War I as genocide.
19 Mar 10 | SAN FRANCISCO: A San Jose federal judge has approved the $US 9.5 million ($10.3 million) settlement of a class-action lawsuit over the social networking site Facebook's program, Beacon, which published data on what users were buying.
19 Mar 10 | DRESDEN: An official commission on the controversial Allied bombings of Dresden during World War II has concluded that up to 25,000 people were killed, fewer than often estimated.
19 Mar 10 | LONDON: A kitchen porter at a leading private school has been arrested after allegedly poisoning the pupils' food.
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