Updated: 8am GMT -- 2007/10/04
Foreign
Myanmar tightens noose on dissent
Thousands of arrests and nightly raids on homes AFTER successfully cracking down on the largest anti-government protests in 19 years, Myanmar’s (Burmese) military has continued to terrorise the city of Yangon’s population with thousands of arrests...
WRITTEN IN STONE
Workers paint the image of Cuban revolutionary hero Ernesto “Che” Guevara at Revolution Square in Havana on Tuesday. Next Monday will mark the 40th anniversary of Argentine-born Guevara’s death. The sign reads in Spanish, “Towards Victory, Fo...
Little chance of proving Di was pregnant
THE coroner conducting the inquest into the death of Princess Diana said yesterday the inquiry was unlikely to reach a scientific conclusion on whether she had been pregnant at the time she died – a possibility that is key to an allegation she had ...
‘Real progress’ in Korean peace summit
SOUTH Korea expressed satisfaction yesterday after the first summit talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in seven years, while Pyongyang committed itself at separate nuclear negotiations to disable its main reactor by the end of the year. ...
Sudan security blocks Carter from meeting
FORMER US President Jimmy Carter got into a shouting match with Sudanese security services in Darfur yesterday when they blocked him from trying to meet with some ethnic African refugees. The 83-year-old Carter walked into the highly volatil...
Hot chilli smoke burns up emergency services
A THAI chef cooked up fears of a chemical attack in London when fumes from his eye-wateringly hot chilli sauce led to the emergency services being called out, the Times of London reported yesterday. Chalemchai Tangjariyapoon, who works at th...
Australia to close doors on African refugees
AUSTRALIA would not take any more refugees from Africa until at least the middle of next year, Prime Minister John Howard said yesterday, triggering charges of a vote stunt ahead of national elections. Howard rejected any suggestion of racism, s...
Zimbabwe teachers on strike for better pay
TEACHERS at state schools across inflation-ravaged Zimbabwe began an indefinite strike yesterday to press for better salaries. Zimbabwe Teachers’ Association chief executive Peter Mabande said that teachers wanted monthly pay rises index-...
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Search for explorer Fossett suspended after one month THE search for adventurer and explorer Steve Fossett was suspended on Tuesday, one month after the daredevil billionaire went missing in his light plane over the high desert of Nevada. “But th...
