6.7 aftershock hits Chile coast

A 6.7-magnitude aftershock has struck off Chile's coast some 72 kilometres from Concepcion, among the cities hardest hit by last month's 8.8-magnitude quake.

16 March 2010 World

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Aussies warned on Thailand

AUSTRALIANS presently in Thailand have been told to avoid large political gatherings as anti-government protests continue in the capital Bangkok.

16 March 2010 World

Taliban assault kills 35

THIRTY-FIVE people have been killed in an assault on Kandahar described by the Taliban as a pre-emptive response to Western plans to eradicate them .

15 March 2010 World

Greece 'does not want money from EU'

GREECE is to present the first results of its austerity measures at a meeting of European Union finance ministers in Brussels on Monday and Tuesday.

15 March 2010 World

Japan arrests anti-whaling activist

A NEW Zealand anti-whaling activist has been arrested in Japan after a harpoon ship he boarded in Antarctic waters last month docked in Tokyo, greeted by police...

12 March 2010 World

Sailor missing after Chile quake

AN Australian sailor missing off the coast of earthquake-ravaged Chile was on board a yacht whose captain has previously sailed without a radio.

11 March 2010 World

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Aussie threat shuts down US schools

A VAGUE threat apparently posted by an Australian on two internet sites led to the lockdown of all schools in the busy midwestern US city of Minneapolis.

11 March 2010 World

Naked Obama aide 'berated Congressman'

IT'S a terrifying image transfixing Washington: President Obama's bruising enforcer Rahm Emanuel, naked, in a communal shower, berating a congressman.

10 March 2010 World

Oldest person in US dies at age 114

MARY Josephine Ray, the New Hampshire woman who was certified as the oldest person living in the United States, has died at age 114 years and 294 days.

9 March 2010 World

Hundreds feared dead in Africa floods

HUNDREDS of people are feared dead after torrential rains across east Africa sparked flash floods which swept away homes and bridges.

8 March 2010 World

Violence in Nigeria flares again

RIOTERS armed with machetes have slaughtered more than 200 people as religious violence flared anew between Christians and Muslims in central Nigeria.

8 March 2010 World

Outcry over boxing kangaroo in US

A RED kangaroo that is goaded into fighting a human clown is the star attraction at a festival in the US designed to celebrate Australia.

6 March 2010 World

Gunman shoots Pentagon police officers

A MAN calmly pulled a gun from his pocket and opened fire outside the Pentagon's metro entrance, injuring two police officers before he was fatally wounded.

5 March 2010 World

US 'building top cyber defence team'

THE United States is building an elite cyber defence team to guard the nation's public and private computer systems, a top US security chief said on Wednesday.

4 March 2010 World

All Blacks to win World Cup - poll

KIWIS are confident that, 24 years on from their last World Cup triumph, the All Blacks will win on home turf, according to an New Zealand Herald online poll.

4 March 2010 World

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Global computer-virus network smashed

THREE men suspected of building the world's biggest network of virus-infected computers, which hijacked more than 13 million PCs, have been arrested in Spain.

4 March 2010 Crime

Japan seeks to revive whaling

JAPAN will push for a resumption of commercial whaling, Japanese Fisheries Minister Hirotaka Akamatsu has confirmed.

2 March 2010 World

Hungry Chile looters ransack stores

LOOTERS pillaged shops and torched two stores in Chile's second city as quake survivors ramped up a desperate search for food.

2 March 2010 World

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European storms kill at least 60

RESCUERS waded through grey floodwaters in France on Monday looking for more bodies after a fierce storm that killed at least 60 people in Western Europe.

2 March 2010 World

Chile races to find quake survivors

CHILEAN rescue teams are racing to find survivors in mountains of rubble after one of the biggest earthquakes on record killed more than 700 people.

1 March 2010 World

Chile earthquake kills more than 300

ONE of the largest earthquakes on record has killed at least 300 people in Chile and sent giant waves roaring across the Pacific Ocean.

28 February 2010 World

Tsunami fears after huge Chile quake

WIDE swaths of the south Pacific, Asia and Australia are braced for a tsunami after a devastating earthquake hit the coast of Chile on Saturday.

27 February 2010 World

Burma court rejects Suu Kyi appeal

BURMA'S Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi against an 18-month extension to her house arrest.

26 February 2010 World

Aussie recalls Kabul blast

AN Australian says the windows of his room exploded as suicide bombers attacked in the heart of Kabul, triggering a series of explosions and gunbattles.

26 February 2010 World

Mossad used Aussie passports

A FORMER Mossad officer says he has no doubt Israel's spy agency has forged Australian passports for use regularly in intelligence operations.

26 February 2010 World