21 Aug 10 | INTERNATIONAL aid workers in Pakistan say they have been forced to choose between spending money on immediate flood relief or holding back funds for longer-term recovery because of the meagre financial response to the disaster.
21 Aug 10 | The simple text message has been harnessed to create a powerful tool that can save lives, writes Josh Halliday.
21 Aug 10 | It evolved from religion to ritual to gambling game. Now animal rights campaigners hope that cockfighting will be outlawed everywhere, writes Daniel Lewis.
21 Aug 10 | Extreme weather events will become more common as climate change bites, writes Jo Chandler.
21 Aug 10 | An all-girl band is finding delicate but deliberate ways to embolden young Burmese women, writes Jack Davies*.
21 Aug 10 | The trade in human misery continues, with young girls selling for about $200, writes Ed Pilkington.
21 Aug 10 | The creator of the world's first cloned sheep says it would be utterly irresponsible to create a person, writes Roger Highfield.
20 Aug 10 | The worst kept secret in Hollywood has finally been confirmed: Australian supermodel Miranda Kerr is pregnant to her new husband, actor Orlando Bloom.
20 Aug 10 | Almost one in five Americans believe that Barack Obama is a Muslim, according to a new poll, despite his public statements about his Christian faith.
20 Aug 10 | Thai-Australian schoolgirl revealed as the real star of a viral YouTube video that has made a group of dancing tourist police the talk of Thailand.
20 Aug 10 | The last US combat brigade pulled out of Iraq at dawn on Thursday, a key milestone in the withdrawal of American forces more than seven years after the US-led invasion that ousted dictator Saddam Hussein.
20 Aug 10 | US aviation authorities grounded and evacuated an American Airlines plane as it prepared for take-off at San Francisco airport on Thursday after receiving a telephone threat.
20 Aug 10 | An Australian man facing charges of breaching Thai state emergency laws during anti-government protests in Thailand this year is to launch his defence in a Thai court today.
20 Aug 10 | A Saudi judge has asked several hospitals in the country whether they could damage a man's spinal cord as punishment after he was convicted of attacking another man with a cleaver and paralysing him, the brother of the victim says.
20 Aug 10 | Billionaire Donald Bren, who has spent a lifetime protecting his privacy, is breaking the pattern by showing up in a Los Angeles courtroom to air details of his private life in a legal battle with his two grown children from a long-ago love affair who are seeking millions.
20 Aug 10 | Pakistan has sought to reassure donors it can be trusted with foreign aid in the wake of the country's catastrophic floods.
20 Aug 10 | JERUSALEM: Three Israeli soldiers have been arrested on suspicion of selling equipment stolen from activists on board a ship in the aid flotilla that tried to break Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip in May.
20 Aug 10 | LIMA: An American convicted of being part of a Peruvian guerilla group was ordered back to prison after a public outcry over her being granted parole five years early from a 20-year sentence.
20 Aug 10 | THE son of the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, has arranged for 500 young people from around the world to fly to Tripoli to celebrate the first anniversary of the release of the Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi.
20 Aug 10 | MOSCOW: Ivan the Terrible boosted its production, Mikhail Gorbachev restricted its sale, and Boris Yeltsin wandered the streets of Washington in his underpants trying to hail a cab to look for pizza after drinking too much of it.
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