Melbourne, Jan 7 (PTI) Australia's police Thursday
stepped up efforts to identify the killer of 21-year old
Indian-youth Nitin Garg who was brutally murdered recently,

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SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has confirmed an outbreak of foot-and-mouth

Kentucky Fried Chicken's head office in the US has apologised for "any
misinterpretation" caused by a controversial Australian cricket ad as furious debate

Police have found knives, a machete and knuckledusters in a random search for
weapons at a Melbourne railway station, days after Indian student Nitin Garg was
stabbed nearby.

Criminal charges could be laid over a high seas crash which holed an anti-whaling ship.
Australian authorities will investigate the incident, with parallel investigations

From Kuzaimah Idris

By Shin Hae-in
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Yonhap) -- Dozens of endangered species, almost extinct in the
rest of South Korea, were found to be inhabiting the demilitarized zone (DMZ)

SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has confirmed an outbreak of foot-and-mouth
disease at a dairy farm north of Seoul, the first such outbreak in eight years,

BANGKOK, Jan 7 (TNA) – Thailand’s Public Health Ministry is ready to start type A(H1N1) vaccinations for two million people subject to high risk across the country on January 11.

By Sam Kim
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Yonhap) -- The number of North Korean defectors hiding in China is
estimated to have shrunken to almost one tenth the level seen about a decade ago,