23 arrested in Australia climate action: activists (AFP)

23 arrested in Australia climate action: activists (AFP)

23 arrested in Australia climate action: activists (AFP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 10:56 PM PST

An exhaust stack rises through the steam of the Loy Yang B power station in the Latrobe Valley, close to Melbourne. Dozens of protesters have shut down the railway line leading to Australia's biggest coal export facility, in protest over what they said was the failure of global climate change talks in Copenhagen.(AFP/File/Paul Crock)AFP - Dozens of protesters shut down the railway line leading to Australia's biggest coal export facility on Sunday, in protest over what they said was the failure of global climate change talks in Copenhagen.

Shark bites diver in Australia (AFP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 10:49 PM PST

Lifesavers and an emergency reponse team member seen on a beach near Sydney. An Australian man was in hospital Sunday after surviving a shark attack while diving off the country's northeast coast, officials said.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)AFP - An Australian man was in hospital Sunday after surviving a shark attack while diving off the country's northeast coast, officials said.

Cambodia deports 20 Uighurs

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 08:36 AM PST

PHNOM PENH - A group of 20 Muslim Uighurs who were seeking refuge in Cambodia after unrest in the Chinese region of Xinjiang were deported back to China late Saturday, an interior ministry spokesman said.

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Iran ready to examine nuclear fuel swap offers

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 12:40 AM PST

TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Saturday Tehran was ready to examine the West's proposals for a nuclear fuel swap, the official IRNA news agency reported.

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Iran's top dissident cleric Montazeri dies: report

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 10:52 PM PST

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's senior dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, has died, official media reported on Sunday. He was 87.

Iran and Iraq discuss "misunderstanding" - media

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 10:56 PM PST

TEHRAN (Reuters) - The foreign ministers of Iran and Iraq have discussed a "misunderstanding" between the countries' border guards, official Iranian media said on Sunday, following accusations that Iranian troops seized an oil well inside Iraq.


(AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 10:35 PM PST

AP - Grandson of Iran's senior dissident cleric says Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri is dead.


Team finds Australian hospital ship sunk in WW2

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 10:31 PM PST

SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian hospital ship torpedoed by the Japanese during World War Two with the loss of 268 lives has been located in waters off the coast of the northern state of Queensland, the government said on Sunday.


China: Climate talks yielded 'positive' results (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 10:54 PM PST

A chimney of a plant that produces heating for buildings emits smoke near a residential apartment in Shenyang in northeast China's Liaoning province Friday, Dec. 18, 2009. Two years of laborious negotiations on a climate agreement ended Friday in Copenhagen with a political deal brokered by President Barack Obama with China and other emerging powers but denounced by poor countries because it was nonbinding and set no overall target for curbing greenhouse gas emissions. (AP Photo) -- CHINA OUT --AP - China, the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, lauded Sunday the outcome of a historic U.N. climate conference that ended with a nonbinding agreement that urges major polluters to make deeper emissions cuts — but does not require it.

Christmas 'heartbreaking' for British troops' families (AFP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 10:36 PM PST

The family of a soldier killed in Afghanistan grieves as his body is driven through the village of Wootton Bassett, in Wiltshire. Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday urged Britons to remember this Christmas the families of troops killed in Afghanistan, for whom the festive season will be AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday urged Britons to remember this Christmas the families of troops killed in Afghanistan, for whom the festive season will be "heartbreaking".

Allies unite behind Zardari, vow to fight graft charges (AFP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 10:04 PM PST

Pakistan's ruling party united behind President Asif Ali Zardari Saturday and vowed to fight any corruption charges brought against its leaders in a bid to exit a damaging political crisis.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)AFP - Pakistan's ruling party united behind President Asif Ali Zardari Saturday and vowed to fight any corruption charges brought against its leaders in a bid to exit a damaging political crisis.

Lockerbie bomber Megrahi's health deteriorates

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 04:16 PM PST

TRIPOLI - The condition of Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the Libyan sentenced to life imprisonment for the Lockerbie bombing and repatriated in August, has deteriorated and the cancer that afflicts him has spread through his body, a medical bulletin said early Sunday.

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Australians "walking on air" over first saint decree

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 09:55 PM PST

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australians rejoiced and prayed on Sunday after Pope Benedict approved a decree clearing the way for a nun who worked with the poor more than 100 years ago to become the country's first Roman Catholic saint.


Pakistan comedians fight Taliban with humour (AFP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 09:34 PM PST

Pakistani radio DJ Fasi Zaka broadcasts his show in Islamabad on December 17. Topics on The Fasi Zaka Show on Radio One FM91 range from interfaith marriages and politics to more absurd discussions such as the speed of grizzly bears.(AFP/Farooq Naeem)AFP - If the Taliban produced a soap opera, Pakistani comedy writer Younis Butt pondered one day, what would it be like?

Guinea protest deaths 'above 150'

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 08:48 PM PST

Human-rights campaigners say they believe between 150 and 200 people were killed when soldiers in Guinea opened fire on a demonstration in September.


Guinea protest deaths 'above 150'

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 08:48 PM PST

Human-rights campaigners say they believe between 150 and 200 people were killed when soldiers in Guinea opened fire on a demonstration in September.


New Afghan Cabinet list draws ire from legislators (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 09:17 PM PST

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009 file photo, Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan. Facing intense pressure to reform, President Hamid Karzai plans to replace heads of two ministries linked to corruption while retaining several others favored by the West, Afghan officials said Friday, Dec. 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Justin Sullivan, Pool)AP - Afghan legislators complained that several members of President Hamid Karzai's proposed Cabinet are inexperienced and beholden to warlords — opposition that threatens to slow the reform Washington believes essential to beating the Taliban.

Thousands of Taiwanese protest China envoy's visit (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 09:18 PM PST

FILE-In this file image taken on Nov. 6, 2008, Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou, right, shakes hands with top Chinese envoy Chen Yunlin at the Taipei guest house in Taipei, Taiwan. President Ma Ying-jeou's signature effort to boost ties with Beijing faces a key test next week when Taiwan's pro-independence opposition takes to the streets to protest the visit of the senior Chinese envoy. Buoyed by a strong showing in local elections earlier this month, the Democratic Progressive Party says it will muster 100,000 supporters Sunday in the central city of Taichung ahead of Monday's arrival of Chen Yunlin, China's top Taiwan negotiator. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying, File)AP - Thousands of anti-government protesters gathered in the central Taiwanese city of Taichung for a massive rally Sunday to denounce the arrival of China's senior Taiwan negotiator.

Iran acknowledges prisoners were beaten to death (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 08:19 PM PST

FILE - An Iranian supporter of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi is beaten by government security members as fellow supports come to his aid during riots in Tehran, Iran, in this June 14, 2009 file photo. (AP Photo, File)AP - After months of denials, Iran acknowledged Saturday that at least three people detained in the country's postelection turmoil were beaten to death by their jailers.
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