CHIBA, Japan, Dec.

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, Dec. 23 Kyodo - Twelve North Korean men fled to South Korea from Russia's Amur Province in September, the first defections of a group of North Korean workers from the

(AAP) For years, the tennis public Down Under embraced "Aussie Kim".

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Tokyo, Dec 23 (PTI) Japanese Prime Minister Yukio
Hatoyama will undertake his first visit to India this week for
talks with his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh on counter-

(AAP) At least five homes and an emergency centre were destroyed, businesses threatened and people fled Port Lincoln on Eyre Peninsula on Wednesday as a bushfire raged towards the town.

(AAP) More than 3,000 Australian Defence Force personnel are set to spend Christmas far from home, some in snow and sub-zero temperatures and others in tropical heat.

MOSCOW, December 23 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will hold a joint meeting of the Russian State Council and the Presidential Council for the Information Society Development here

KOROLEV (Moscow region), December 23 (Itar-Tass) -- The manned
spaceship Soyuz with the international ISS crew of three astronauts

DHAMAR, Dec. 22 (Saba) - Police have seized a cannon from a plumber shop in Yemen's central province of Dhamar, the Interior ministry reported on Tuesday.