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3:00 AM | Its three great basins - the Indus, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra - are the most densely populated area in the world. The Ganges alone supports half a billion people.
Olympic bill worth it, says Princess Anne
3:00 AM | The Princess Royal said that she sympathises with those who object to the cost of staging the Olympics this year and understands that some people will think the Games ''extravagant'' given Britain's economic climate.
3:00 AM | Tight security and high anxiety underwrote the final sitting of Papua New Guinea's outgoing Parliament this week, with rumours running hot that an 11th-hour power play would derail the looming national election and plunge the troubled nation deeper into uncharted straits.
3:00 AM | To Ines Lemos, the celebrations in Dili today marking the 10th anniversary of East Timor's independence mean little.
Shadow of the past haunts nation's future
3:00 AM | Poverty and inequality are the dark side to a free East Timor, writes Lindsay Murdoch in Dili.
Shackled to a shrine for being mentally ill
18 May 12 | JALALABAD: The young man sits nearly naked in a small concrete room, a thick, heavy chain fastened around his ankle and bolted to the wall. Flies swarm around a wound on his wrist where shackles have rubbed the skin raw.
Militarising Cocos Islands will be betrayal, says former ambassador
17 May 12 | DEFENCE'S plans to develop the Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean as a base for Australian and US spy drones and aircraft run counter to assurances Canberra has given the United Nations, one of Australia's most senior foreign policy figures has warned.
16 May 12 | An Australian man has reportedly died in a hotel room in Colombia.
16 May 12 | INDONESIA'S national police will ban pop diva Lady Gaga from performing in Jakarta because they say her show poses a threat to security and morality.
Canberra 'must pick strategic godfather'
16 May 12 | AUSTRALIA must find a ''godfather'' to protect it and cannot juggle its relationships with the US and China indefinitely, according to a prominent Chinese defence strategist.
Ex-Murdoch chief faces phone-hack charges
16 May 12 | FORMER chief executive of News International Rebekah Brooks has been charged by British prosecutors with trying to cover up the tabloid phone-hacking scandal.
EU council attacks Israeli settlements
16 May 12 | Israel's accelerated program of settlement construction - considered illegal under international law - was threatening to 'make a two-state solution impossible', the European Union Foreign Affairs Council has warned.
Jailed executives are Chinese, Carr told
15 May 12 | BEIJING: The three Australians sentenced to long jail terms in China - Stern Hu, Matthew Ng and Charlotte Chou - were in effect considered Chinese nationals by the Chinese government, despite holding Australian passports, the Foreign Affairs Minister, Bob Carr, said.
Sea Shepherd leader held
15 May 12 | Paul Watson was arrested in Germany, on a warrant from Costa Rica, over a 2002 incident.
Extremists attack visiting voices in Indonesia
15 May 12 | Indonesia's national police are considering banning a performance next month by pop diva Lady Gaga in the face of threats of violence by Islamic extremists.
14 May 12 | An Iraqi woman murdered at home had suffered for years at the hands of her jealous husband, a court has been told.
14 May 12 | THE Queen may not remain head of state in an independent Scotland after one of the Scottish National Party's most senior MPs confirmed it is party policy to hold a referendum on the monarchy.
Dalai Lama warned of Chinese poison plot
14 May 12 | NEW DELHI: The Dalai Lama has revealed his fears after being warned that Chinese agents have hatched a plot to kill him.
14 May 12 | A Scottish National Party's senior parliamentarian confirms it is policy to hold a referendum.
Bali nine inmate's final plea to escape death
13 May 12 | Death-row Bali nine inmate Andrew Chan has filed his plea for clemency with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, with lawyers asking the President to grant the drug courier ''a chance to have a new life''.
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