A VAGUE threat apparently posted by an Australian on two internet sites led to the lockdown of all schools in the busy midwestern US city of Minneapolis.
IT'S a terrifying image transfixing Washington: President Obama's bruising enforcer Rahm Emanuel, naked, in a communal shower, berating a congressman.
HUNDREDS of people are feared dead after torrential rains across east Africa sparked flash floods which swept away homes and bridges.
RIOTERS armed with machetes have slaughtered more than 200 people as religious violence flared anew between Christians and Muslims in central Nigeria.
A RED kangaroo that is goaded into fighting a human clown is the star attraction at a festival in the US designed to celebrate Australia.
A MAN calmly pulled a gun from his pocket and opened fire outside the Pentagon's metro entrance, injuring two police officers before he was fatally wounded.
THE United States is building an elite cyber defence team to guard the nation's public and private computer systems, a top US security chief said on Wednesday.
KIWIS are confident that, 24 years on from their last World Cup triumph, the All Blacks will win on home turf, according to an New Zealand Herald online poll.
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THREE men suspected of building the world's biggest network of virus-infected computers, which hijacked more than 13 million PCs, have been arrested in Spain.
JAPAN will push for a resumption of commercial whaling, Japanese Fisheries Minister Hirotaka Akamatsu has confirmed.
IPSWICH City Council is on the hunt for treasured photographs depicting the city’s early history as Ipswich marks 150 years since it first became a...
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