AFP - The weaker of two Bangladeshi twins separated from her conjoined sister in landmark surgery in Australia woke fully from a coma Saturday -- and blew her guardian a raspberry.
AP - The mother who gave up conjoined Bangladeshi newborn twins for adoption said Saturday she is overjoyed the toddlers have been successfully separated and wants them to grow up in Australia.
AFP - Two executives at a banknote-making firm part-owned by Australia's central bank have been suspended over a police probe into alleged bribery and kickbacks, officials said.
AFP - Fans and friends on Saturday expressed shock at the death of a South Korean supermodel who was found hanged in her central Paris apartment earlier this week.
AFP - "Catastrophic" alerts have been issued in Australia after record-breaking temperatures and wild lightning storms sparked more than 100 fires across the country, officials said on Saturday.
AP - A gas explosion tore through a coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 31 people and trapping 82 others nearly a third of a mile under ground, government authorities said.
Reuters - The Afghan government would quickly be overthrown if NATO troops pulled out of the country now, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Friday.
AFP - A gas explosion at a mine in northeast China early Saturday killed 15 workers and left 114 trapped, state-run China Central Television (CCTV) said.
AP - An explosion struck the office of an aid organization in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border on Saturday, wounding a security guard, police said.
AFP - Loosehead prop Wian du Preez will make his South Africa debut against Italy here on Saturday with Leicester Tiger Martin Castrogiovanni's snarling teeth ready to welcome him.
AFP - A leading rights group Saturday called on the Thai government to allow 158 Lao Hmong refugees, who have been detained for three years pending deportation, to be resettled in four western countries.
AFP - Supporters of Taiwan in the US Congress pushed for President Barack Obama to move toward selling arms to the island, a step that would likely set back warming US ties with China.
AP - The husband of an acclaimed dissident Cuban blogger was punched and shouted down by a pro-government mob Friday after he challenged the presumed state agents who earlier roughed up his wife to a street corner debate.
AP - A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus. Experts say the historian may be reading too much into the markings, and they stand by carbon-dating that points to the shroud being a medieval forgery.
AP - Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director said Friday.
AFP - European football was reeling on Saturday from what one UEFA official called the continent's worst ever match-fixing scandal, with 200 games under suspicion of having been rigged in nine countries.
AP - Valuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina's Congress has authorized the forced extraction of DNA from people who may have been born to political prisoners slain a quarter-century ago — even when they don't want to know their birth parents.
AP - Egyptian soccer fans burned Algerian flags and rioted outside the Algerian Embassy in Cairo, smashing cars and shop windows, in an escalating row between the two countries over a bitter World Cup rivalry.
AFP - Protesters injured dozens of police near the Algerian embassy in Egypt's capital on Friday, fanning the flames of a diplomatic spat that erupted after Algeria won a football World Cup qualifier.
Cumbria floods: 'once in a thousand years' .. - Telegraph When Workington's flood defences were rebuilt following the great storms of 2005, residents were assured they could withstand a "once in a century" flood.
Teoh exhumation begins - Themalaysianinside KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 21 - The exhumation of Teoh Beng Hock's body for a second autopsy, ordered by the inquest into his recent death, has begun.
Afternoons without Oprah Los Angeles Times - Joe .. - Latimes Who will fill the void, and who will watch, when the queen of daytime TV departs for cable in 2011? By Joe Flint and Meg James Oprah Winfrey told her audience Friday that she had made up her mind to end her hit daytime talk show in September 2011 ...
California unemployment hits 12.5% San Francisco .. - Sfgate California employers added 25700 jobs in October, the first such gain since April of 2008. But the state unemployment rate still rose to 12.5 percent, its highest level in nearly 70 years, as a report issued Friday depicted a downtrodden labor market ...
Climate scientists accused of 'manipulating global .. - Telegraph Some of the world's top climate scientists have been accused of manipulating data on global warming after hundreds of private emails were stolen by hackers and published online.
UK Climate Research Center Confirms Data Breach - Themoneytimes According to Robert Graham, CEO with the consultancy Errata Security, it's quite possible, judging from the data published that either the hacker is an ...
Mobile Phones - Breakingnewsonline It will make things difficult for the Chinese mobile phones that do not have IMEI numbers. The government has already made it clear that the mobile phones ...
Big Bang collider restarted - Swissinfo Scientists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) have restarted the world's largest atom smasher built to reproduce "Big Bang" conditions ...
Ageing Santa gets $100,000 facelift for Christmas - Yahoo Reuters - A Santa in New Zealand with a droopy eye has received a NZ$100,000 ($74,000) face-lift in the run-up to Christmas so that his aging face does not scare children.
