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Australian politician attacked by kangaroo in Canberra. Shane Rattenbury says the kangaroo attack happened while he was on a morning jog. Kangaroo attack in Australia..
North Korea has replaced its hard-line armed forces minister with a relatively unknown general, according to state-run news agency KCNA.

Little is known about Jang Jong-nam, who replaces General Kim Kyok-sik.

Officials in Seoul say his political stance is not known, but he appears to be younger than his predecessor.
"Obama has been worse than Bush," one Palestinian official in the West Bank told me not so long ago. It raised an eyebrow.

George W Bush's name is generally mud across much of the Arab World.

"Maybe not worse for the Middle East as a whole," the official clarified. "But for Palestinians, Obama has been worse to deal....
Beneath a giant hammer and sickle, the elite at the top of the Communist Party assembled for the country's annual parliament session last week, all wearing the same unofficial uniform.

As they stood to listen to the county's national anthem, the politicians stood in perfect rows, spaced a few feet apart. Each person had a white....
North Korea says it is proceeding with plans for a third nuclear test.

In a statement carried by KCNA news agency, the top military body said the "high-level nuclear test" and more long-range rocket launches were aimed at its "arch-enemy", the US.

The statement gave no time-frame for the test. North Korea has conducted....
The US state department has said a planned visit to North Korea by Google chairman Eric Schmidt is unhelpful.

The reason for the trip has not yet been revealed, but reports say it is part of a humanitarian mission led by US politician Bill Richardson.

State department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said: "We don't think....
From Yahoo! News: Japan has launched a new nuclear oversight agency following criticism that collusion between regulators and plant operators contributed to meltdowns at the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant..
From Yahoo! News: Toronto shortstop Yunel Escobar was suspended for three games Tuesday by the Blue Jays for wearing eye-black displaying an anti-gay slur written in Spanish during a game last weekend against Boston..
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili conceded his party's defeat Tuesday, setting the stage for the nation's first peaceful, democratic transition through election since the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Victory in the parliamentary elections went to a coalition headed by billionaire businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili.
Ivanishvili is....
Burmese leader Thein Sein has told the BBC he would accept Aung San Suu Kyi as president if the people vote for her.

The president insisted that the will of the people would be respected whoever they chose in an election due in 2015.

He reiterated his commitment to the country's reform programme, and said he and Ms Suu....
The Japanese and Chinese foreign ministers have held talks on a bitter row over disputed islands.

The meeting came on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.

The Japanese minister described the atmosphere as severe, Kyodo News agency said, while his Chinese opposite number restated Beijing's sovereignty....
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad slammed an anti-Islam film that has provoked a violent reaction in the Muslim world, spoke strongly against homosexuality and said what his country would do if attacked by Israel in an interview airing Monday on CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight."

The president denounced the film, "Innocence of....
he verdict for the case against the ex-police chief at the heart of China's biggest political scandal in years will be delivered on Monday, a court official says.

The two-day trial of Wang Lijun for defection, abuse of power and bribe-taking took place in Chengdu this week.

Mr Wang's flight to a US consulate in February....
The Chinese authorities are investigating an incident in which dozens of angry protesters surrounded the car of U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke in a Beijing street, some throwing objects at the vehicle before security forces intervened to protect it.

The United States has expressed concern to China about the unusual disturbance on....
The disgraced politician at the center of China's biggest political scandal in years has been linked to a criminal act for the first time since he was removed from office, the state-run Xinhua news agency has reported.

Bo Xilai, who was head of the Communist Party in the southwestern city of Chongqing and once seen as a future....
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