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As Hong Kong's economy suffers from stresses and strains, so are the sex lives of the territory's seven million people, according to a survey.

Tension is brewing outside the Woomera detention camp in South Australia as demonstrators protest at the imprisonment of asylum seekers.

A missing former soldier has been identified as the second Australian suspected of fighting for al Qaeda or Taliban forces in Afghanistan.

Another ally of Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro has been forced to qut the ruling party over allegations of corruption, inflicting another blow to the administration's sagging credibility.

International security forces warned Wednesday of a credible threat to kidnap a non-Afghan journalist.

Hundreds of top secret documents from the Philippines outline a clear plan to recruit Islamic extremists and train them as pilots in flight schools in the United States. Their goal: a suicide mission.

You know you're somewhere special when all the cameras are pointed at the stands, not at the pitch.

Australian Prime Minister John Howard has become further embroiled in unseemly sex slurs against a senior judge following claims his personal chauffeur was the source of a forged document central to the affair.

A German woman convicted for drug trafficking in Singapore will no longer face the death penalty.

South Korean President Kim Dae-Jung says North Korea has no other choice but reopen dialogue with the United States.

South Korea will send a special envoy to North Korea next month in hopes of restarting stalled bilateral relations, a South Korean government spokeswoman said Monday.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair and New Zealand leader Helen Clark have again both attacked a decision not to suspend Zimbabwe from the Commonwealth.

An investigation by the aid agency Oxfam has uncovered what it says are continuing cases of worker exploitation at Indonesian factories producing sportswear for Nike and Adidas-Salomon.

Sri Lanka's prime minister has arrived in the northern Tamil city of Jaffna, the first such visit in two decades to the center of the country's civil war.

The State Department has authorized the voluntary departure of family members of U.S. Embassy and Consulate personnel in Pakistan in the wake of Sunday's terrorist attack on an Islamabad church that killed five people, including two Americans.

The condition of former Indonesian President Suharto is improving following two days of blood transfusions, reports quoting medical personnel said Saturday.

British-born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh has been formally charged in Pakistan, along with three other suspects, with the kidnap and murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl.

Taipei has indicated it is opposed to the United States using nuclear weapons to resolve a possible crisis in the Taiwan Strait.

Taipei police have seized copies of a magazine which purported to carry classified documents containing allegations linking former President Lee Teng to the use of a multi-million dollar slush fund.

Taiwan's economics minister Christine Tsung has resigned after barely two months on the job.

At first glimpse, it doesn't seem like much. But three recent moves by the government of Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian are threatening new tensions with China.

Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels have rejected U.S. allegations that they are undermining the peace process in the country by engaging in recruitment of children, extortion, kidnapping and arms smuggling.

The shadow of September 11 still hangs heavily over this years Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting which kicks off in the Australian resort town of Coolum Saturday.

Thailand has reinstated the visas of two international journalists that were revoked last month on grounds of national security, as a war of words between the government and local media heats up.

The youngest son of former Indonesian President Suharto has been formally charged with masterminding the murder of a judge who sentenced him in a corruption case.

The murder trial of Tommy Suharto, the youngest son of Indonesia's former President Suharto, has begun in Jakarta amid tight security.

The prosecution has begun presenting its case during the resumption of the murder trial of Tommy Suharto, the youngest son of Indonesia's former President Suharto.

At the height of the Suharto presidency, the glitterati, glamour and conspicuous consumption of Indonesian high society revolved around one man -- Hutomo Tommy Mandala Putra, youngest and favorite son of the former president.

A Kashmiri separatist leader has been arrested under an anti-terrorism law in connection with the seizure of large sums of cash India says was smuggled into the region from Nepal by two activists.

A top Tamil Tiger rebel negotiator is scheduled to arrive here Monday as part of an effort to pave the way for direct talks with the Sri Lankan government under Norwegian mediation.

A Russian sailor who survived after being trapped for six hours inside a sunken dredger said prayers and the thought of his family kept him alive.

A visit to Myanmar by United Nations special envoy Razali Ismail has been cancelled at the last minute as the country continues to probe what its military rulers say was a plot to overthrow the government.

India and the United States are to take part in joint military exercises in the latest sign that ties between the former Cold War foes are mending.

The Japanese prefecture of Ehime is close to a settlement with the U.S. Navy over the sinking of the Ehime Maru, a Japanese fishing boat hit last year by a surfacing U.S. submarine, a prefecture spokesman said Monday.

The Japanese prefecture of Ehime is close to a settlement with the U.S. Navy for the sinking of the Ehime Maru, a Japanese fishing boat hit last year by a surfacing U.S. submarine, a prefecture spokesman said Monday.

The U.S. Central Command confirmed on Thursday that a member of U.S. Special Operations was killed and another service member was wounded by an explosion of enemy munitions outside Kandahar, Afghanistan.

The United States has expressed concern that Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka may be jeopardizing the tenuous peace process in the country.

The United States has expressed concern that Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka may be jeopardizing the tenuous peace process in the country.

India's prime minister is struggling to keep his cobbled coalition intact as key partners call for him to crack down on traditional Hindu hardline supporters.

Accusing the United States of waging a chemical war against it, Vietnam has said the two former foes need to come up with a plan to repair damage caused by the toxic defoliant Agent Orange.

With more than 1,000 delegates from a disparate array of Commonwealth nations here, and almost as many media representatives in attendance, the 2002 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting should be a natural target for the worlds anti-globalization forces.

Fourteen asylum seekers are still on the run after fleeing from a South Australian detention center during a dramatic weekend of violent protests.

The home of rugby union's awe-inspiring All Blacks has been all but blacked out by the sport's world governing body.

Japan and South Korea, World Cup rivals on the pitch and tournament co-hosts off of it, have vowed to use one of the world's biggest sporting events as a springboard to closer ties.

Premier Zhu Rongji has told Chinese their standard of living will improve despite entry to the World Trade Organization and uncertainties in the world economy.

The Commonwealth group of nations has decided against imposing sanctions on Zimbabwe until after the presidential election.

Two U.S. Special Operations troops and an Afghan soldier were injured Sunday in a training exercise in eastern Afghanistan, U.S. Central Command said.

Pakistani police and U.S. commandos arrested about 35 Islamic militants -- including suspected al Qaeda and Taliban members -- early Thursday, police said.

They were hardly on the ground before they were in the enemy's sights. The fighters had no choice but to duck or die.

Local authorities are reporting scores of deaths in Samangan Province in northern Afghanistan, where a powerful weekend earthquake triggered a landslide and caused widespread damage.