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An aspiring New Zealand actor and singer, Eitan Djiji, 14, is fighting for his life in Los Angeles County-USC Medical Centre, where his condition was was listed late yesterday as grave. Firefighters rescued the boy […] […]

MOSCOW—Russian emergency workers have increased forest patrols in a western region previously contaminated by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, trying to prevent wildfires from spreading harmful radiation, officials said Wednesday. At least six wildfires were […] […]

Hopes are fading of finding more survivors from flooding and landslides in northwestern China, as teams worked to stave off disease outbreaks, three days after the disaster that killed at least 702 people. More than […] […]

AUSTRALIAN publishers will be tempted to move their businesses and assets to the US in the wake of a new law shielding US journalists and publishers from defamation from outside the country, a Sydney lawyer […] […]

Civilian war deaths in the first seven months of 2010 rose by 6 per cent over the same period last year, Afghanistan’s human rights commission said yesterday. The Taleban and their allies were responsible for […] […]

The attorneys for a Jamaican man named by a United States publication as the person who led American prosecutors to alleged drug kingpin Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke are adamant that their client was never an informant […] […]

SOUTH Australia is trying to lure across bored young British workers with offers of exotic jobs such as koala catcher and shark tagger. The South Australian Government has launched a campaign to tempt adventure-seeking 18 […] […]

MONTREAL—Some of the most extensive evidence yet suggesting racial profiling by its officers has been produced from within the Montreal Police Service, but the force is disavowing the internal study. The report suggests that the […] […]

Weeks after it was turned away from Australia, a Thai cargo ship believed to be carrying about 200 illegal migrants from Sri Lanka is now expected to reach Canada any day. The question is: Are […] […]

A FURIOUS US flight attendant abused passengers who refused to follow his instructions before storming off the plane via an emergency chute. The attendant, identified in the US media as Steven Slater, 39, was working […] […]