| Cop Tasers 'unruly' 10-year-old girl
November 18, 2009 at 11:12 pm
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| | A US police officer used a Taser stun gun to subdue a "combative" 10-year-old girl in her own home because she refused to take a shower. |
| US unveils historic health care Bill
November 18, 2009 at 10:18 pm
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| | US SENATE Democrats have unveiled a historic plan to extend health coverage to more than 30 million Americans who lack it now and set the stage for a key test vote as early as this weekend. |
| Japan set to begin annual whaling
November 18, 2009 at 10:00 pm
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| | JAPANESE whaling ships left port today for Antarctic waters for the annual hunt of the ocean giants, Greenpeace said, setting the stage for high-seas confrontations with anti-whaling activists. |
| 13,000 riot police, troops guard Obama
November 18, 2009 at 9:56 pm
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| | SOUTH Korea deployed some 13,000 police and soldiers to guard President Barack Obama during his visit but pro-US demonstrators heavily outnumbered protesters in central Seoul today. |
| Doctor 'planned Mafia hit in Australia'
November 18, 2009 at 9:28 pm
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| | THE FBI has swooped on a millionaire eye doctor in the US accused of attempting to hire a Russian Mafia hit man to kill a business partner vacationing in Australia. |
| Controversial war game smashes records
November 18, 2009 at 9:02 pm
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| | ACTIVISION Blizzard Inc said its video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 scored record sales of $US550 million ($593 million) in its first five days, but the company is still concerned about weak consumer spending. |
| Webby lists 10 best internet moments
November 18, 2009 at 7:23 pm
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| | THE birth of Wikipedia, the death of Napster, the iPhone, Facebook and Twitter have been named by the Webby Awards as among the top 10 internet moments of the decade. |
| Legless athlete has 'unfair advantage'
November 18, 2009 at 6:18 pm
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| | THE artificial legs of South African paralympic champion Oscar "Blade Runner" Pistorius give him a clear advantage, taking at least 10 seconds off his 400m time, a US study said. |
| Clinton a 'tease' claims British MP
November 18, 2009 at 5:12 pm
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| | TALK about Washington and London's special relationship. |
| US missile hits militants
November 18, 2009 at 3:37 pm
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| | AT least four militants were killed and five others wounded in a US drone missile strike in Pakistan's tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said today. |
| Parents forgive bullies who caused girl's death
November 18, 2009 at 3:26 pm
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| | AN English vicar and his wife said today that they forgave the two teenage girls who bullied their adopted daughter to death after the pair were convicted of manslaughter. |
| Jackson 'in denial over drug problem'
November 18, 2009 at 3:02 pm
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| | SINGER Janet Jackson today said she knew her brother Michael had a drug problem but he refuse her help. |
| Rugby fan wins $420k with single kick
November 18, 2009 at 1:57 pm
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| | AN amateur rugby player has won £250,000 ($420,000) in a half-time competition to kick a ball from 30m out and hit the crossbar of the goalposts at Wembley Stadium. |
| 9/11 mastermind will be executed - Obama
November 18, 2009 at 1:27 pm
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| | A TOUGH-TALKING President Barack Obama went on the offensive today, saying that accused September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would be convicted and executed. |
| Granny jailed after career of crime
November 18, 2009 at 1:24 pm
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| | AFTER a life of crime stretching back 53 years, a 70-year-old German woman was finally behind bars today after pickpocketing a woman 10 years her senior at the bus stop, police said. |
| Fort Hood suspect's contacts 'disturbing'
November 18, 2009 at 1:20 pm
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| | US Attorney General Eric Holder said today he found contacts between the alleged gunman behind a deadly shooting spree at a US military base and a radical Yemeni cleric "disturbing". |
| Sniper buried in Louisiana
November 18, 2009 at 1:19 pm
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| | WASHINGTON sniper John Allen Muhammad, who was executed last week for a series of 2002 shootings that killed 10 people, has been buried in the southern US state of Louisiana, an area funeral home said. |
| First arrests over Zbot computer virus
November 18, 2009 at 1:15 pm
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| | British police today said they had made the first arrests in Europe over a malicious computer virus that may have stolen personal information from thousands of computers in the UK and worldwide. |
| Greyer, thinner Obama doesn't blame the job
November 18, 2009 at 1:11 pm
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| | BARACK Obama has conceded that he has lost a bit of weight and gotten somewhat greyer during his first year as US president, but says he remains healthy despite the relentless demands of his job. |
| Germany enthralled by gay spy trial
November 18, 2009 at 1:06 pm
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| | A TRIAL opened in Germany today with all the elements of a 21st century spy thriller: the Balkan criminal underworld, leaking of state secrets and careless pillow-talk to a gay lover. |
| Dutch to store CO2 underground
November 18, 2009 at 1:02 pm
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| | THE Dutch government has approved the experimental below-ground storage of excess carbon dioxide to curb damaging emissions, dismissing concerns of residents who live on top of the project. |
| Shuttle docks with space station
November 18, 2009 at 1:00 pm
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| | THE space shuttle Atlantis today successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS), NASA officials said. |
| Queen outlines Britain's recession plans
November 18, 2009 at 8:57 am
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| | THE British Government has vowed to slash the nation's massive deficit and tighten up rules for the financial services industry as the countdown to the general election begins. |
| Obama concedes delay in closing Gitmo
November 18, 2009 at 8:14 am
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| | US President Barack Obama admitted for the first time today that the United States would miss the January 2010 deadline he set for closing the US war on terror prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. |
| 'Women shoulder burden of climate change'
November 18, 2009 at 7:46 am
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| | WOMEN are more vulnerable to climate change than men and will continue to bear the brunt of extreme weather conditions unless more is done to educate and empower them, a report has found. |
| Ransom paid for hi-jacked ship
November 18, 2009 at 7:30 am
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| | SOMALI pirates holding a Spanish trawler said today they had received a $US4 million ($4.27 million) ransom and that the vessel and its 36 crew would be released immediately. |
| Container ship hit by Somali pirates, again
November 18, 2009 at 7:28 am
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| | PIRATES off Somalia attacked a Danish container ship today, already hijacked once, but were scared off by a security contingent aboard, the EU naval mission in the region said. |
| Another Munch work stolen, police admit
November 18, 2009 at 7:06 am
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| | A LITHOGRAPH by Edvard Munch valued at 300,000 euros ($479,578) was stolen in Oslo in June, Norwegian police announced today, only days after the theft of another precious work by the painter. |
| Air force under fire over 'no babies' rule
November 18, 2009 at 6:46 am
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| | THE Indian Air Force has drawn flak from women activists after it suggested it might allow female pilots to fly fighter jets but only if they promised not to have babies. |
| Last asylum seekers leave Oceanic Viking
November 18, 2009 at 4:16 am
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| | THE Oceanic Viking asylum seeker impasse has finally ended. |
| Horrific allegations detail years of abuse
November 18, 2009 at 4:04 am
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| | HORRIFIC new allegations suggesting children as young as five were ordered to murder a man have emerged in a case already involving claims of ritualistic child sex abuse. |
| China's last D-Day survivor dies
November 18, 2009 at 3:45 am
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| | CHINA'S last surviving veteran from the D-Day landings of Allied troops in northern France has died at the age of 91, state media reported today. |
| Skater on thin ice after charges laid
November 18, 2009 at 3:00 am
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| | RUSSIAN figure skater Andrei Lutai has been arrested and jailed for stealing a car and driving drunk, police said today, after he finished 10th in a skating competition in upstate New York. |
| More details emerge of family rape trial
November 18, 2009 at 2:24 am
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| | HORRIFIC new allegations suggesting children as young as five were ordered to murder a man have emerged in a case already involving claims of ritualistic child sex abuse. |
| English in workplace weird - minister
November 18, 2009 at 2:12 am
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| | MALAYSIA'S deputy education minister has said that speaking English in the workplace is ``weird'' and harmful to the nation's culture and identity, a report said today. | | | 
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