News Archive

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's camp has claimed victory in Iran's presidential election after the latest official results showed him defeating his moderate rival by a wide margin.June 13, 2009, 1:30 pm

Cessna Aircraft Company, the largest builder of corporate jets in the United States, says it is laying off another 1,300 workers, raising the number of jobs eliminated to half of its work force since November as the recession has depressed demand for its planes.June 13, 2009, 1:30 pm

Women have just two more weeks to take advantage of the federal government's free cervical cancer vaccination, which winds up at the end of the month.June 13, 2009, 1:15 pm

UN climate delegates completed their first rough sketch of a new global-warming agreement today, a draft replete with gaps and competing ideas that await decisions by political leaders.June 13, 2009, 1:15 pm

Nigeria's main militant group says it has destroyed an oil pipeline belonging to the US company Chevron in the country's southern Delta region.June 13, 2009, 1:15 pm

President Barack Obama has removed Laos and Cambodia from a US blacklist, opening the way for loans to companies doing business in countries formerly seen as US adversaries.June 13, 2009, 1:00 pm

Miley Cyrus is dating a former member of pop band Son Of Dork.June 13, 2009, 1:00 pm

Cut-outs of Brad Pitt are being used in Russia to curb reckless driving.June 13, 2009, 12:45 pm

Johnny Marr has paved the way for a reunion with Morrissey.June 13, 2009, 12:45 pm

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's three-day official visit to Italy drew to a close with fresh controversy after he failed to show up to address deputies in the Italian parliament.June 13, 2009, 12:30 pm

Cher's daughter is having a sex change.June 13, 2009, 12:30 pm

Women in the Arab and Muslim world are treated like "furniture" and the situation requires a "feminine revolution", Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Friday, ANSA news agency said.June 13, 2009, 12:30 pm

Two types of baby dummy have been recalled after putting infants at risk of choking.June 13, 2009, 12:15 pm

Paris Hilton and Doug Reinhardt split because she violently attacked him.June 13, 2009, 12:15 pm

An 18-year-old man was killed in a crash in High Wycombe overnight.June 13, 2009, 12:00 pm

An "ecstatic" Madonna has won her battle to adopt a young girl from Malawi after the country's highest court ruled that the three-year-old could become part of the US singer's family.June 13, 2009, 12:00 pm

One man was killed and a woman seriously injured in an horrific crash near Gingin last night.June 13, 2009, 12:00 pm

The Spaniard Alejandro Valverde of the Caisse d'Epargne team retained his slim 16-second lead over Australia's Cadel Evans after the sixth stage of the Dauphine Libere race on Friday.June 13, 2009, 12:00 pm

Industrial production in the 16 countries that use the euro slumped in the year to April according to official figures - another indication that the euro-zone may emerge from recession later than the US or Britain.June 13, 2009, 11:45 am

A 62-year-old man who begged the judge at his trial to have him put him to death for the rape and murder of a young woman has been executed by lethal injection in Alabama.June 13, 2009, 11:30 am

Cries rang out in an emotion-filled courtroom after a New Zealand High Court jury found five members of the family of a young woman guilty of her manslaughter during a curse lifting ceremony.June 13, 2009, 11:30 am