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Alessandro Del Piero leaves Sydney FC By Dejan Kalinic Apr 28, 2014 9:36:00 AM The Italian great will not be playing on with the Sky Blues for a third campaign after he and the club announced a decision not to renew his contract Alessandro Del Piero has confirmed his playing career with...

Chinese hackers ‘had access to Australian lawmakers’ emails for a year’ PUBLISHED : Monday, 28 April, 2014, 9:58am UPDATED : Monday, 28 April, 2014, 10:04am Reuters Outside view of the new Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) headquarters in Canberra, Australia. Photo: EPA...

UK teen dies after Colombian tribal ritual AP April 27, 2014, 9:57 am A British teenager has died in southwestern Colombia after drinking an hallucinogen during a tribal ritual. Henry Miller, 19, was found dead on Wednesday by a rural road outside Mocoa, the capital of Putumayo region, local...

Too few airports check stolen passport database, Interpol says Air passengers with stolen documents still slipping through unchecked PUBLISHED : Sunday, 27 April, 2014, 7:03am UPDATED : Sunday, 27 April, 2014, 7:03am Agencies and Bryan Harris Interpol secretary general Ronald Noble. Photo...

Chinese national trapped in Nepal tunnel with other labourers rescued Thirteen workers rescued, three still missing PUBLISHED : Saturday, 26 April, 2014, 11:54am UPDATED : Saturday, 26 April, 2014, 11:54am Reuters in Kathmandu A hydroelectric power project under construction. Thirteen...

Saudi woman gets 150 lashes for driving AAP April 26, 2014, 11:08 am <object id="flashObj" classid="clsid:D <embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"...

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Scolari assures trio of World Cup slots Apr 25, 2014 11:40:00 AM Felipao has revealed that Thiago Silva, David Luiz and Fred stand alongside goalkeeper Julio Cesar as those certain of a place in Brazil' final 23-man World Cup squad Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari has added Thiago Silva...

Official: Brazil to meet Turkey in Istanbul Apr 25, 2014 11:52:00 AM The Gillette Brasil Global Tour can confirm its second post-World Cup fixture with the Selecao set to meet The Crescent-Stars in November The latest fixture in the Gillette Brasil Global Tour has been confirmed as the TFF...

Man arrested for slashing woman in supermarket Shanghai Daily, April 24, 2014 A supermarket patron slashed with a knife and two other women held hostage were rescued in Shenzhen in south China's Guangdong Province by police who took a suspect into custody after a two-hour standoff last...

‘I am extremely sorry’: Justin Bieber apologises after visit to Japan’s Yasakuni war shrine Canadian pop star visits controversial site just days after Japan lawmakers' visit and PM Shinzo Abe's offering caused uproar PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 23 April, 2014, 3:43pm UPDATED : Wednesday, 23 April...

Rare photographs from North Korea leader Kim's childhood broadcast during Pyongyang concert PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 23 April, 2014, 3:42pm UPDATED : Wednesday, 23 April, 2014, 3:43pm Staff reporter Composite of photos of Kim Jong-un saluting as a child and as an adult A rare glimpse into...

Elite Jakarta nursery ordered closed over sex assault claim PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 22 April, 2014, 11:21pm UPDATED : Tuesday, 22 April, 2014, 11:21pm Agence France-Presse in Jakarta Many expat children attend the Jakarta school. Photo: AFP Indonesia has ordered the nursery of a prestigious...

Anti-junta Myanmar journalist Win Tin dies AP April 21, 2014, 12:37 pm Win Tin, a prominent journalist who became Myanmar's longest-serving political prisoner after challenging military rule by co-founding the National League for Democracy, has died. He was 85. He had been hospitalised with...

Ukraine business card 'proof' derided on Internet AFP April 21, 2014, 11:55 am Kiev (AFP) - A business card brandished by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine as proof that a deadly attack on their checkpoint was the work of ultra-nationalists quickly became an object of derision on...

How China is using criminal detention in place of re-education through labour Re-education through labour is a thing of the past, but criminal detention now takes its place PUBLISHED : Monday, 21 April, 2014, 3:21am UPDATED : Monday, 21 April, 2014, 12:01pm Verna Yu [email protected]...

Twelve gold bars removed from Indian man's stomach Yahoo!7 April 19, 2014, 12:28 pm Doctors can be hard people to shock, but a recent case left one surgeon flabbergasted. A 63-year-old man came to hospital complaining of vomiting and stomach pain. He claimed he'd swallowed the lid of a...

Zhejiang man arrested for arranging sex tests in Hong Kong for pregnant mainland women Suspect allegedly sent blood from fetuses to clinics in city, where sex testing is legal PUBLISHED : Friday, 18 April, 2014, 12:05am UPDATED : Friday, 18 April, 2014, 2:23am Zhuang Pinghui...

Last-ditch efforts to salvage mission of China's stricken Jade Rabbit lunar rover Engineers identify power blockage as cause of Jade Rabbit's breakdown, which has left rover parked up on lunar surface for two months PUBLISHED : Friday, 18 April, 2014, 3:16am UPDATED : Friday, 18 April, 2014...

Security vision captures intruder watching sleeping boy Yahoo!7 April 17, 2014, 8:47 am <object id="flashObj" classid="clsid:D <embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"...