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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has praised Australia’s role in peacekeeping missions in the Asia Pacific region. Speaking to an audience of under 35s to be broadcast on the ABC on tonight, Ms Clinton […] […]

VANCOUVER—An Asian passenger who disguised himself as an elderly Caucasian man before boarding an Air Canada plane in Hong Kong is being outed in a sensational way by Canadian officials “playing dirty,” says the man’s […] […]

ALL 18 bodies unearthed this week from a mass grave near Acapulco were part of a group of Mexican tourists kidnapped in the Pacific resort city in late September, prosecutors said Saturday. As of Friday, […] […]

DAYTONA BEACH, FLA.—A Florida woman and her boyfriend have been charged with trying to sell her infant grandson for $30,000. Florida Department of Law Enforcement agents arrested 45-year-old Patty Bigbee and 42-year-old Lawrence Works on […] […]

INDONESIA’S Mount Merapi volcano killed 85 people in its latest eruption, with scores more suffering severe burns. Many of the dead were in Argomulyo village, about 20 kilometres rom the crater of Merapi, as deadly […] […]

STOCKHOLM — Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf has appealed for peace and quiet after a new book shattered a long-held tradition among Swedish media not to print intimate details about his private life. Speaking to […] […]

An Air Canada flight chartered from Hong Kong to Vancouver has produced an “unbelievable case of concealment” worthy of spy film lore. The incident – which occurred on Oct. 29 according to a Canada Border […] […]

GEORGIA’S arrest of 13 people on charges of spying for Moscow has “deeply angered” Russia, a Russian foreign ministry source has told the Interfax news agency. “We are deeply angered by the reports about the […] […]

A 41-vehicle pile-up on a fog-shrouded highway in eastern China has left at least 12 people dead and 13 injured, state media reported today. The accident occurred on a 600-metre stretch of an expressway near […] […]

Question: My husband’s been an alcoholic for 20 years, holding down a successful job, then hiding in his workshop to drink every night. I cover for him, keeping the peace and the shameful secret. I […] […]