3:00 AM AEST | MOSCOW: A mysterious incident in which one of Russia's most powerful spies was found dead on a Turkish beach has provoked speculation that the deputy head of the country's foreign military intelligence service was murdered.
3:00 AM AEST | BRUSSELS: The European Union is keen to strike a pact with the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, to stem the flow of illegal immigrants across the Mediterranean, officials say.
3:00 AM AEST | LONDON: The photograph is hardly fodder for the tabloids: two men dressed in T-shirts and jeans, smiling broadly behind hip sunglasses as they take a walk in a park on a sunny day in London.
3:00 AM AEST | WASHINGTON: As President Obama convenes the first direct Middle East peace talks in 20 months, the question observers here and in the region are asking is what, if anything, makes this round more hopeful than the last.
3:00 AM AEST | LONDON: Tony Blair says that for a politician to have an affair is like being able to escape to a ''remote desert island of pleasure''.
3:00 AM AEST | COPIAPO: The drilling for the rescue of 33 trapped Chilean miners was put on hold for several hours to shore up the shaft walls after a fault in the rock was detected, the chief engineer said.
3:00 AM AEST | KABUL: Afghan authorities are trying to prevent a potentially catastrophic run on the country's biggest bank after allegations of corruption and mismanagement led regulators to remove two of its top executives.
3:00 AM AEST | THE Big Bang was the result of the inevitable laws of physics and did not need God to spark the creation of the universe, Stephen Hawking has concluded.
3:00 AM AEST | THOUGH the barriers to a Middle East peace remain huge, fortified by two days of terrorist attacks on Israelis in the West Bank, peace negotiations in Washington have opened to notes of cautious optimism.
02 Sep 10 | PARENTS can sometimes feel as if they are drowning in conflicting information about their child's requirements - what they should be eating, what they should be learning. But there is one area where we might all like more help - how to improve parenting skills that can be of long-term benefit to a child's mental health.
02 Sep 10 | THE good times keep rolling for ''slash and burn'' managers in America. Bosses of the 50 US companies that sacked the most staff during the recession earned 42 per cent more than their peers, new research shows.
02 Sep 10 | AN AUSTRALIAN woman arrested and charged with organising illegal activities during last year's Copenhagen climate summit has been cleared by a Danish court.
02 Sep 10 | HEBRON, West Bank: Israeli and Palestinian leaders were preparing for widespread violence across the West Bank after the murder of four Jewish settlers, including a pregnant woman, by Hamas terrorists seeking to disrupt the peace talks in Washington.
02 Sep 10 | LONDON: The Iranian government has urged the country's media to refrain from insults after a hardline newspaper twice described Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, wife of the French President, as a ''prostitute''. Kayhan made the comments after Ms Bruni-Sarkozy condemned the stoning sentence against an Iranian woman convicted of adultery.
02 Sep 10 | FOR 500 years, commodity traders have been trying to conquer the treacherous waters of the Russian Arctic passage - aware of its potential as a lucrative short-cut shipping route.
02 Sep 10 | STOCKHOLM: A senior Swedish prosecutor is reopening a rape investigation against the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, the latest twist to a case in which prosecutors of different ranks have overruled each other.
02 Sep 10 | THE friendship between Tony Blair and George W. Bush has long been the source of fierce criticism and vicarious interest in Europe, and the memoir does not fail to deliver.
02 Sep 10 | HE DOESN'T mention cricket, or Australia as a nation. But Tony Blair lists several Australians among his greatest influences and best mates.
02 Sep 10 | WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama has marked the end of America's combat role in Iraq by signalling the US has no intention of relinquishing its leadership in world affairs, despite the sacrifices it has made during one of its longest wars.
02 Sep 10 | LONDON: There are tears and private anguish, ''maddening'' frustration about Gordon Brown, intimate glimpses into the ''intriguing, surreal and utterly freaky'' royal family and an earthy admiration for the ''clanking great balls'' of his mercurial spin doctor, Alastair Campbell.
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