Monday January 01
There are concerns aid groups are becoming targets for militant groups in Pakistan, after six aid workers were killed when militants struck a World Vision office in the North-West Frontier Province.
British child protection agencies have formally apologised to two women who were repeatedly raped and violently abused by their father, bearing him seven children over 25 years.
Queensland's Indigenous community will march on State Parliament today, enraged over the latest death in custody.
It is a terrifying image transfixing Washington: US president Barack Obama's bruising enforcer Rahm Emanuel, naked, in a communal shower, berating a congressman over perceived political cowardice.
United States defence secretary Robert Gates has raised the prospect of some American troops withdrawing from Afghanistan earlier than expected.
Egypt's top Muslim cleric, Sheikh Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, has died after suffering a heart attack while on a visit to Saudi Arabia.
A Belgian media group has published Europe's first 3D newspaper, complete with flip-out cardboard viewing glasses.
Corey Haim, a Hollywood teen star of the 1980s who became as famous for his struggles with substance abuse as his acting, died in Los Angeles of an apparent drug overdose, police said. He was 38.