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Lawyer to make last ditch bid for Bali Nine ringleader Date January 19, 2015 - 6:41PM Indonesian guards escort Australian Myuran Sukumaran to court in Denpasar, Bali. Photo: Jason South The Indonesian lawyer for Bali Nine ringleader Myuran Sukumaran will lodge a request for another...

Suspects held in Greece as European terror crackdown widens By RAF CASERT and DEMETRIS NELLAS Jan. 17, 2015 7:03 PM EST Belgian para-commandos patrol near a synagogue in the center of Antwerp, Belgium, on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015. Security around Belgium has been stepped up after thirteen...

France sees 19,000 cyberattacks since terror rampage By JAMEY KEATEN and SYLVIE CORBET Jan. 15, 2015 12:10 PM EST French president Francois Hollande, center, Culture minister Fleur Pellerin, right, and president of the Institut du Monde Arabe (Arab Institute), Jack Lang, walk past the Arab...

Bird flu outbreak expands into Northern Taiwan CNA January 14, 2015, 12:00 am TWN A wild bird is seen on top of the cages on a chicken farm, yesterday. In response to the first appearance of a new type of H5N2 and H5N8, which was possibly brought into Taiwan by migrant birds, large...

Jackie Chan's son Jaycee to stand trial for drug crime 'on Friday' PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 06 January, 2015, 11:15am UPDATED : Tuesday, 06 January, 2015, 2:28pm Staff Reporter Jaycee Chan tested positive for marijuana months ago and was arrested. Photo: Reuters Actor Jaycee Chan, son of kung...

Around the nation: Restaurant owner fined after fake wine leaves diners ill and in poor spirits Also, woman tries to sell son to save sick daughter, and bra thief's perverse deed exposed PUBLISHED : Sunday, 21 December, 2014, 8:32pm UPDATED : Sunday, 21 December, 2014, 10:02pm Policemen...

Sony hack: Angelina Jolie branded 'seriously out of her mind' in further embarrassing leaked email thread The actress was criticised in an exchange between Scott Rudin and Amy Pascal Antonia Molloy Author Biography Thursday 18 December 2014 A further leaked email thread between Sony...

Ex-Sony employees sue, claim company failed to protect data Reuters December 17, 2014, 4:25 am An entrance gate to Sony Pictures Entertainment at the Sony Pictures lot is pictured in Culver City, California April 14, 2013. REUTERS/Fred Prouser By David Ingram (Reuters) - Sony Pictures...

Jakarta Post’s editor faces blasphemy charge for cartoon mocking Islamic State PUBLISHED : Friday, 12 December, 2014, 11:22am UPDATED : Friday, 12 December, 2014, 5:28pm Associated Press in Jakarta The Jakarta Post's editor chief editor face up to five years in prison. Photo: AFP...

Man shot dead as Jewish student stabbed in head at Brooklyn synagogue PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 10 December, 2014, 4:28am UPDATED : Wednesday, 10 December, 2014, 4:28am Associated Press in New York The Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in Brooklyn, New York. Photo: AFP A knife-wielding man...

British 'gigolo' Ian Griffin jailed for 20 years for girlfriend's murder in Paris PUBLISHED : Sunday, 07 December, 2014, 6:14am UPDATED : Sunday, 07 December, 2014, 6:14am Agence France-Presse in Paris Ian Griffin outside court before he was sentenced. Photo: AP A British businessman...

Darren Wilson, policeman who shot dead Michael Brown in Ferguson, quits the force As Darren Wilson resigns for 'safety' reasons, activists begin protest march PUBLISHED : Sunday, 30 November, 2014, 3:05pm UPDATED : Monday, 01 December, 2014, 2:39am Reuters in Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson...

175 charged with election-related offenses By Joy Chang, The China Post November 28, 2014, 12:00 am TWN Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) spokesman Huang Di-ying (黃帝穎) holds up a sign to say that an association of Taiwanese businesspeople who support the Kuomintang (KMT) in...

Anti-Occupy protesters defy court order, block Apple Daily delivery PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 14 October, 2014, 6:55am UPDATED : Tuesday, 14 October, 2014, 7:42am Eddie Lee and Peter So Police officers outside the Apple Daily offices in Tseung Kwan O. Photo: Handout More than 100 people, mostly...

Russia extends house arrest for leading Putin critic AFP October 11, 2014, 6:09 am Moscow (AFP) - A Russian court on Friday extended the house arrest of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who faces graft charges his supporters say are politically motivated. "The house arrest has been...

Harry Street, a killer of five and ex-psychiatric patient, held over arsenal Fears ex-psychiatric patient was planning another spree with guns, makeshift bomb PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 07 October, 2014, 11:35pm UPDATED : Wednesday, 08 October, 2014, 4:08am Agence France-Presse in London A...

Hitmen admit killing 17 Mexico students, families wary AFP October 7, 2014, 3:51 am Iguala (Mexico) (AFP) - Hitmen linked to police have confessed to murdering 17 of 43 missing students in southern Mexico as relatives of the victims refuse to believe they may have been buried in a mass...

California bans plastic bags AP October 1, 2014, 7:54 am Governor Jerry Brown has signed legislation imposing America's first statewide ban on single-use plastic bags. Brown on Tuesday signed the bill by Democratic state Senator Alex Padilla of Los Angeles. Plastic bags will be phased out...

Malaysian activist jailed for a year under colonial-era sedition law Adam Adli convicted under Sedition Act and sentenced to one year in jail over remarks considered capable of inciting the overthrow of Malaysia's government PUBLISHED : Friday, 19 September, 2014, 12:21pm UPDATED : Friday, 19...

800 officers launch largest anti-terror raids in Australia's history Over 800 police officers took part in anti-terror raids early on Thursday in Sydney and Brisbane, the largest such operation ever undertaken in Australia PUBLISHED : Thursday, 18 September, 2014, 9:30am UPDATED : Thursday, 18...