Cricket Australia (CA) has strongly backed the inclusion of a Test Championship in the international schedule after the current Futures Tours Programme (FTP) ends in...

The Australian cricket team has been fined for maintaining a slow over-rate during its one-day international against the West Indies in St Kitts...

Several thousand demonstrators took part in a largely peaceful and colourful protest in northern Japan Saturday against the upcoming Group of Eight (G-8)...

Tokyo, July 5 (Xinhua) An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 on the Richter scale hit eastern Japan Saturday...

President George Bush has reiterated that there will never be an effective agreement on climate change without the participation of emerging economies like China and India. He also said the world must wake up to the "beauty of nuclear power" that produces renewable energy with "zero greenhouse gas...

Japan's northern town of Toyako is known for its beautiful green surroundings, blue lake and majestic mountains, but despite its natural beauty the area is still getting some touch ups ahead of the G8 summit meeting July...

New Delhi, July 5 : A team of Indian journalists is making a goodwill visit to China from July...

Melbourne, July 5 : Preschoolers in Australia will now be undergoing two hours of compulsory exercise regimes....

Melbourne, July 5 : Donations to the McGrath Foundation have reached the magic million dollar mark as Australia honours cricketer Glen McGrath's late wife Jane who lost her battle to breast cancer two weeks...

President Bush is headed to Japan for his final G-8 summit, with a deal on cutting greenhouse gases atop the agenda. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says rich countries must not use the world's...

PARIS (AP) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy (sahr-koh-ZEE') says that it is neither reasonable nor fair for the world's top eight industrialized nations to hold summits without including emerging...

PARIS: Ingrid Betancourt checked in to a French hospital on Saturday for tests that should reveal any medical problems following her six years as a captive in the Colombian...

SEOUL, June 17 – A South Korean labour group on Tuesday announced a one-day strike for next month in protest against the economic reform plans of Lee Myung-bak, the president, adding pressure on...

Police arrested four people as more than 1,000 marched in northern Japan on Saturday to protest against the Group of Eight summit taking place near the city of...

SEOUL, South Korea - Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in South Korea's capital Saturday against U.S. beef imports, as a pro-government group staged a counter rally calling for an end to weeks...

The Chinese city of Tianjin has ordered 40 factories to close for nearly two months in an effort to cut air pollution for the Beijing Olympics.Tianjin, a port city about 150 kilometers southeast of...

The couple found their room aflame when they walked in 40 minutes after the man surnamed Lin had set the candles alight, local media reported on Thursday. "Lin was arrested by the police later and...

SAPPORO, Japan (AP) - Four people have been arrested at an occassionally violent rally in Japan today protesting next week's G-Eight summit between President Bush and the leaders of 7 other...

The term has gained currency as the pejorative description of the branch of social science that studies the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services.Former British prime...

Taipei - Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom will visit Taiwan in October to promote ties, the Central News Agency said on Saturday. Speaking by phone from Guatemala's capital Guatemala City, Taiwan's...

While the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launches violent attacks on Falun Gong in Flushing, New York, in order to counteract the global "Quit the CCP" campaign and to conceal the CCP's domestic...

is one of seven handmade books by the British author. Amazon, bidding anonymously, bought it at a December auction at Sotheby's where it fetched 40 times the expected price. Amazon unveiled the book...

Taipei - The chairman of Taiwan's ruling KMT party said on Saturday air links with China and opening up Taiwan to Chinese tourists is vital for peace. Wu Poh-hsiung made the remarks at a banquet for...

WHITE HOUSE (AP) - President Bush heads to Japan today to take part in his final G-8 summit. At the top of the agenda are soaring oil prices and the struggling world economy, plus global warning. ...

Australia's inspirational fly-half Matt Giteau breaks through the French defence. Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images Australia beat France by a record-breaking 30-point margin in Brisbane...

TEHRAN: Iran is ready to negotiate with world powers on its nuclear programme but without suspending its controversial uranium enrichment work, the government spokesman said on...

July 05, 2008, 15:30 Several thousand people rallied today on the streets of central Sapporo, Japan, to protest against a Group of Eight summit due to start next week at a luxury hotel a two-hour...

ULAN BATOR: Mongolia Saturday was set to lift a state of emergency imposed after deadly election riots engulfed the capital Ulan Bator, but residents feared renewed...

Posted on: Saturday, 5 July 2008, 09:00 CDT Text of report by state-run North Korean radio on 3 July [Carried as first out of ten items in 2100 gmt newscast; Kim Jong Il's last visit to Kanggye City...

Thousands of people demonstrated in northern Japan Saturday in advance of next week's summit of leaders of the world's eight richest nations.The protesters gathered in the city of Sapporo to demand...

KARACHI: President Pervez Musharraf insisted on Friday that Pakistan's powerful army still supports him, but he said he would step down if he thought it would solve all of the country's problems. ...

BERLIN: A man tore the head from a controversial waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler on the opening day of Berlin's Madame Tussauds museum on Saturday, police said. The 41-year-old man was...

DHARAMSALA, India (Reuters) - Envoys of the Dalai Lama said on Saturday the Chinese lacked serious commitment and that talks on easing tensions after protests against Chinese rule in Tibet were not...

BAHRAIN are not afraid of facing Asian powerhouses Japan in two major qualifying competitions over the next year, Bahrain Football Association vice-president Shaikh Ali bin Khalifa Al Khalifa...

The Florens unit of COSCO Pacific Ltd. has entered into a deal to sell and leaseback shipping containers with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. COSCO Pacific said it transferred to a unit of the...

Less than a week after acquiring a Canadian port trucker, short-haul container delivery provider RoadLink announced it added American Freight Systems Inc. to expand its service coverage in the...

JAPANESE sailor and environmentalist Kenichi Horie has completed a 110 day solo voyage across the Pacific Ocean in a boat propelled by wave power to claim another world first. Weak waves and...

Matt Giteau scored 20 points in a brilliant solo performance to lead Australia to a record 40-10 win over an under-strength France in the second test at Lang Park on Saturday. The Wallaby flyhalf...

Nike , the world's largest sports shoe and clothing company, on Monday said an advertising blitz around this summer's Beijing Olympics will not be affected by efforts to curtail 'ambush marketing' by...

A group of ruling party politicians advising Yasuo Fukuda, Japan's prime minister, has called for a Y10,000bn ($93.7bn) sovereign wealth fund to be set up to improve returns to the country's...

On the face of it, China might not seem the obvious place to invest at the moment. The local stock market has collapsed, property markets are weak and the interest rate on bank deposits is about half...

I have a question. Where is Japan? The world leaders and accompanying media hordes heading this weekend for the shores of Lake Toya need not turn to their atlases. The question is one of psychology...

Japan will give Zambia a 15 million U.S. dollars grant for ground water development in Luapula Province and the rehabilitation of the road network in Livingstone in Southern province under an...

MELBOURNE: Australia has secured the rights to host the Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne until 2015, with a new evening start to reach a greater television audience overseas, officials said...

BOGOTA: Colombia's military showed for the first time on Friday a video showing hostages angry and resigned at having their hands bound, and then minutes later sobbing with jubilation aboard a ...

BIG SUR, Calif. -- Piles of charred rubble smoldered near California's scenic coastal highway as a ferocious wildfire descended on the tourist town of Big Sur, destroying vacation homes and sending...

BURMESE authorities have charged 14 supporters of detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi for protesting against the extension of her house arrest, police said today. They were arrested on Suu...

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WAUKESHA, Wisconsin: A 52-year-old Milwaukee-area man has been accused of faking heart attacks to avoid paying restaurant bills and cab...

By GEOFFREY BEW MANAMA: Taiwan is ready to become a major supplier of construction materials to Bahrain, it has emerged. Tycoon Teng-Hsiung Chao said the country had the capacity to wipe out...