| Cambodia refuses Thaksin extradition
November 10, 2009 at 10:21 pm
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| | CAMBODIAN officials handed over a formal letter to Thai diplomats today refusing to extradite fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra. |
| Blackout hits 50 million people in Brazil
November 10, 2009 at 10:07 pm
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| | A MASSIVE blackout across the southern half of Brazil last night plunged tens of millions of people into darkness and prompted a major police mobilisation amid fears of an opportunistic crime wave. |
| Online activists hijack Facebook groups
November 10, 2009 at 7:07 pm
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| | ACTIVISTS claimed to have seized control of nearly 300 Facebook community groups in a self-proclaimed effort to expose how vulnerable online reputations are to tampering. |
| France backs legal action against whalers
November 10, 2009 at 6:57 pm
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| | FRANCE says taking legal action against whaling is a "good idea" – although Australia seems lukewarm. |
| Israel violating peace resolution - UN
November 10, 2009 at 6:51 pm
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| | ALL Israeli military flights over Lebanon break a resolution aimed at ending the 2006 hostilities between the two neighbours, a UN envoy said. |
| Gunman opens fire at Oregon shops
November 10, 2009 at 6:32 pm
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| | ONE person was killed and several others have been wounded after a gunman opened fire at a strip shopping centre in the western US state of Oregon, police and local media reports said. |
| US to bring climate plan to Copenhagen
November 10, 2009 at 6:22 pm
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| | THE US Senate will complete the framework of climate change legislation before next month's high-stakes summit in Copenhagen, Senator John Kerry promised UN chief Ban Ki-moon. |
| NZ under pressure to take asylum seekers
November 10, 2009 at 5:24 pm
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| | THE New Zealand Government is coming under increased internal pressure to accept some of the 78 asylum seekers aboard the Australian customs vessel Oceanic Viking. |
| Obama leads memorial at army base
November 10, 2009 at 3:44 pm
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| | US President Barack Obama has led a poignant memorial service for victims of the Fort Hood army base attack, saying "no faith" could justify the "murderous and craven" shootings. |
| Ice loss 'helps offset global warming'
November 10, 2009 at 2:55 pm
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| | GLOBAL warming has been blamed for the alarming loss of ice shelves in Antarctica, but a new study says newly-exposed areas of sea are now soaking up some of the carbon gas that causes the problem. |
| Office hostage drama 'false alarm'
November 10, 2009 at 2:52 pm
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| | AN alleged hostage situation near the state governor's mansion, reported today by the lieutenant governor of the central US state of Missouri, may have been a false alarm, a police spokesman said. |
| $80m lotto winners quit IT support jobs
November 10, 2009 at 2:23 pm
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| | A GROUP of British IT workers who won more than $80 million in a record lottery payout have revealed how they feared they were going to be sacked when they received the call about the win. |
| Taliban warns of more Fort Hood attacks
November 10, 2009 at 2:08 pm
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| | THE Taliban has warned the United States of more attacks like the Fort Hood shooting rampage unless Washington ends its policies in Afghanistan and Iraq, the SITE Intelligence Group said today. |
| Madoff jewels, clothes set for auction
November 10, 2009 at 1:36 pm
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| | THE trappings of Bernard Madoff's once luxurious lifestyle - jewels, furs and expensive trinkets - will be auctioned on Sunday in New York to benefit victims of the Wall Street swindler. |
| Website offers 'best job' shopping spree
November 10, 2009 at 1:32 pm
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|  A PARIS-BASED website has launched a competition offering the winner a one-month tour of seven world cities with a shopping budget of €10,000 ($16,126), business class travel and luxury accommodation. |
| Woman loses noisy sex ban appeal
November 10, 2009 at 1:26 pm
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| | A BRITISH woman lost her appeal overnight against a ban on her noisy sex sessions, after a court heard how her marathon romps that kept neighbours awake sounded like someone being murdered. |
| Suicide car bomb kills 25
November 10, 2009 at 1:23 pm
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| | A SUICIDE car bomb tore through a packed shopping street in a Pakistan town overnight, killing 25 people in the third militant attack to strike the nuclear-armed country in as many days. |
| S Africa death rate doubled in decade
November 10, 2009 at 1:17 pm
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| | SOUTH Africa's death rate doubled over the past decade due to the spread of AIDS, the health minister said today, blaming the crisis on government policies under former president Thabo Mbeki. |
| Memorial to would-be Hitler assassin
November 10, 2009 at 1:15 pm
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| | BERLIN authorities said today they would put a memorial on the site of Adolf Hitler's former chancellery building to a German man who tried to kill the dictator weeks after World War II began. |
| Army shooters colleagues considered sacking
November 10, 2009 at 1:12 pm
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| | COLLEAGUES of the accused gunman in the Fort Hood shooting rampage were troubled by his lacklustre performance as an army psychiatrist and had discussed removing him, National Public Radio said today. |
| School hostage crisis ends peacefully
November 10, 2009 at 1:03 pm
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| | A HOSTAGEdrama ended peacefully overnight after the gunman who briefly captured the principal at a high school in New York state surrendered following police negotiations, a local official said. |
| Red Cross staffer kidnapped
November 10, 2009 at 12:58 pm
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| | THE Red Cross said overnight that a French staff member had been abducted by several armed men in eastern Chad, close to the border with Sudan and its war-ravaged Darfur region. |
| Medvedev ends strongman's rule
November 10, 2009 at 12:55 pm
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| | RUSSIAN President Dmitry Medvedev today ended the 14-year rule of Urals region supremo Eduard Rossel, the highest profile casualty of the Kremlin's shake-up of regions amid the economic crisis. |
| Pirates in second long-range attack
November 10, 2009 at 12:53 pm
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| | PIRATES overnight attacked a Danish-flagged container ship a day after a foiled long-range attack on an oil tanker in the same area deep into the Indian Ocean, the EU naval mission said. |
| Peter Andre wins libel damages
November 10, 2009 at 12:50 pm
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| | AUSTRALIAN star Peter Andre won "substantial" libel damages today over an "offensive" press report that he had lied by portraying himself as a loving father and husband. |
| Iran frees Danish journalism student
November 10, 2009 at 12:47 pm
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| | IRAN overnight freed a Danish journalism student arrested last week on the sidelines of anti-government demonstrations in Tehran, the capital's chief prosecutor was quoted as saying. |
| Lindsay Lohan at Ungaro 'a disaster'
November 10, 2009 at 7:24 am
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| | HOLLYWOOD bad girl Lindsay Lohan's first collection as artistic adviser for Emanuel Ungaro was a "disaster", the founder of the French couture house said. |
| Murdoch stories can be taken off: Google
November 10, 2009 at 6:58 am
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| | GOOGLE said today, in response to threats by Rupert Murdoch to ban the search engine from listing content from his news empire, that any company could ask to have stories taken off. |
| Young dropout wins $9.13m jackpot
November 10, 2009 at 6:00 am
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| | A 21-year-old college dropout won the World Series of Poker today, completing the biggest comeback in the tournament's history to earn an $US8.5 million ($9.13 million) jackpot. |
| Flash floods kill 41
November 10, 2009 at 5:30 am
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| | HEAVY rain in southern India triggered flash floods and landslides that killed 41 people in the past 24 hours, police said. |
| Storm Ida bears down on US
November 10, 2009 at 4:25 am
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| | TROPICAL storm Ida bore down on the US Gulf coast today, still packing strong winds after cutting a swath of destruction that left 136 dead in Central America. | | | 
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