02 Sep 10 | HE DOESN'T mention cricket, or Australia as a nation. But Tony Blair lists several Australians among his greatest influences and best mates.
02 Sep 10 | WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama has marked the end of America's combat role in Iraq by signalling the US has no intention of relinquishing its leadership in world affairs, despite the sacrifices it has made during one of its longest wars.
02 Sep 10 | LONDON: There are tears and private anguish, ''maddening'' frustration about Gordon Brown, intimate glimpses into the ''intriguing, surreal and utterly freaky'' royal family and an earthy admiration for the ''clanking great balls'' of his mercurial spin doctor, Alastair Campbell.
01 Sep 10 | A Qantas jet bound for Sydney was forced to turn back to San Francisco after an engine problem caused a hole to be punched in the metal shell around it.
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01 Sep 10 | A video of a young girl in a red sweatshirt throwing several puppies into a river has caused a huge social media backlash on sites like 4chan, reddit and Facebook.
01 Sep 10 | US President Barack Obama has told Americans that restoring the US economy “must be our central mission as a people and my central responsibility as President”.
01 Sep 10 | A Qantas jet headed for Australia has returned safely to San Francisco International Airport after a problem with one of the engines forced pilots to turn back.
01 Sep 10 | Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been interrogated by police in Sweden, where he is facing molestation allegations.
01 Sep 10 | US police say a California doctor died after apparently trying to get into the home of the man she had been dating by sliding down the chimney.
01 Sep 10 | The man at the centre of the Pakistan cricket match-fixing scandal has been arrested by British customs officers who are believed to be investigating a multi-million pound money laundering operation.
01 Sep 10 | Four Israelis were killed in a shooting attack on a vehicle in the West Bank, two days before a new round of Mideast peace talks is scheduled to start in Washington.
01 Sep 10 | A three-year-old boy has been found hanged next to the body of his badly-beaten mother in the cellar of a house in Germany, media reports said on Tuesday.
01 Sep 10 | ROME: A visit by the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, to Italy to mark the second anniversary of a friendship treaty with its former coloniser stumbled into controversy after he said Europe should convert to Islam.
01 Sep 10 | LONDON: The age of austerity in Europe is set also to quash age-old rivalries, forcing Britain and France to share aircraft carriers.
01 Sep 10 | MOSCOW: The Russian Prime Minister has angrily dismissed protests against his regime as ''provocations'' and said anyone who took part in unsanctioned street rallies against the Kremlin should expect a ''whack on the bonce''.
01 Sep 10 | PARIS: Nicolas Sarkozy's cabinet has vowed to press ahead with a crackdown on France's Roma Gypsy population, in a show of strength designed to quash the appearance of a government split over the controversial policy.
01 Sep 10 | MEXICO CITY: Mexico has announced the capture of one of its most sought-after fugitives, a Texas-born alleged trafficker accused of unleashing a wave of brutal slayings and a ruthless battle with rivals.
01 Sep 10 | MEXICO CITY: About a 10th of the Mexican federal police force has been sacked under new rules designed to weed out crooked officers and modernise law enforcement.
01 Sep 10 | The world's most high-profile climate change sceptic is to declare that global warming is ''undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today'' and ''a challenge humanity must confront'', in an apparent U-turn that will give a huge boost to the embattled environmental lobby.
01 Sep 10 | WASHINGTON: The US will today send another Predator drone on patrol flights along its border with Mexico, allowing authorities for the first time to monitor the entire frontier with the unmanned aircraft.
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