24 Nov 2009 02:50:40 GMT Gunmen Launch Attack In Philippines
The Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines - Dozens of gunmen abducted and fatally shot at least 21 people in the southern Philippines on Monday - a massacre that appeared related to local politics.
24 Nov 2009 02:41:00 GMT Tropical depression Twentyseve Tropical depression Twentyseve is forecast to strike the Philippines as a tropical storm at about 12:00 GMT on 25 November.
24 Nov 2009 02:30:59 GMT Lib rebels in threat to Turnbull
Spill canvassed as climate vote looms
MALCOLM Turnbull's leadership was under renewed pressure last night as a former senior minister declared the Liberal Party was "paralysed" over the emissions trading legislation and dissident MPs ...
24 Nov 2009 02:30:59 GMT Rioting detainees could be sent home: Rudd
Brawl sparked by pool game
RIOTING refugees could be kicked out of Australia for their part in a wild brawl that broke out in Christmas Island's detention centre on Saturday night.
24 Nov 2009 02:30:31 GMT Refugee advocate tells of pool brawl
A GAME of pool sparked the riot on Christmas Island that caused 150 Sri Lankan and Afghan asylum seekers to beat each other with pool cues, branches and broomsticks, detainees have been quoted as saying.
24 Nov 2009 02:12:28 GMT INSTANT VIEW 6-Australia revises carbon-trading scheme SYDNEY, Nov 24 (Reuters) - The Australian government revised its plans to cut carbon emissions on Tuesday in order to win majority political support for the reform.
The changes will deliver more ...
24 Nov 2009 02:11:09 GMT FACTBOX-Australia's planned carbon trading scheme Nov 24 (Reuters) - Australia's government outlined changes to its planned carbon trading scheme on Tuesday, designed to win political support to help the laws pass through parliament's upper house ...
24 Nov 2009 01:45:11 GMT Obama meets with advisers on Afghanistan (For more on Afghanistan, click on [ID:nAFPAK])
* Ninth such meeting gets under way
* Some Democrats want war tax (Updates with meeting start, announcement likely next week ...
24 Nov 2009 01:41:14 GMT Labour pains on a sampan
PASIR MAS: An expectant woman, caught in sudden floods, had to endure labour pains on a sampan before she could get medical aid to deliver her baby yesterday.
