Americans Vote In Tightest Election For Years

By Greg Milam, US Correspondent Barack Obama looks on course to secure a second term in the White House as Americans cast their votes following the most expensive election campaign in history. The president appears to have the narrowest of leads...

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Driver Made To Wear Idiot Sign As Punishment

A woman in Ohio has been ordered to wear an 'idiot' sign after driving on a footpath to avoid a school bus picking up children. Shena Hardin, 32, will have to stand at a junction as a warning to others, after she was repeatedly caught on camera driving...

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Oz Tour: Charles And Camilla Off To The Races

By Paul Harrison, Royal Correspondent The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall have joined 100,000 spectators at "the race that stops a nation", during the latest leg of their Diamond Jubilee tour in Melbourne. The royal couple was in the stands...

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Nelson Mandela Notes Issued In South Africa

In a tribute to the first black president of South Africa, bank notes featuring a picture of Nelson Mandela have gone into circulation. The notes, rolled out by the South African Reserve Bank, display the 94-year-old anti-apartheid icon's smiling face....

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Crocodiles Leave Man Half-Eaten In Philippines

A man's half-eaten body has been found after he was attacked by crocodiles at a breeding farm in the Philippines, police say. The victim, named by officers as unemployed 57-year-old Sorbelo Sajona, was discovered in a pond by workers at the privately-owned...

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Greece: General Strike Before Austerity Vote

Tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Athens as a two-day general strike begins ahead of a tight Parliamentary vote on a new round of austerity measures. The 13.5bn euro (£10.8bn) package of proposed cuts and tax increases includes...

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Putin Axes Defence Minister Over Military 'Fraud'

Russian President Vladimir Putin has sacked defence minister Anatoly Serdyukov two weeks after a criminal investigation was opened into alleged fraud over the selling off of military assets. The surprise announcement was made during in a televised meeting...

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Skydiver Baumgartner Loses Assault Appeal

Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner has lost his appeal against an assault conviction dating from before his record-breaking freefall from the edge of space last month. The 43-year-old daredevil was found guilty last April and fined €1,500 ($1,900 or...

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Iraq: Deadly Bomb Blast Hits New Recruits

At least 25 people have been killed in a car bombing in the front of an Iraqi army base as potential new recruits gathered, officials say. The suspected suicide bombing in the town of Taji, 15 miles north of the capital Baghdad, was the deadliest single...

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Syria: Assad Could Leave, Says David Cameron

David Cameron has suggested that Syria's president Bashar al Assad could be allowed safe passage out of the country if it would guarantee an end to the nation's civil war. In an interview with Sky News Arabia, the Prime Minister said the international...

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