 Masks used by actors from the Star Trek television and movie series on display in New York, prior to the auction. |
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A CSIRO report has warned climate change will threaten the region's economy and security unless governments and aid agencies start preparing for its impacts.
The two-part CSIRO report was commissioned by a new coalition of aid, church and development groups.
It warns that a two degrees Celsius increase in temperature by 2030 will have a devastating impact in northern Pakistan, India and western China.
Time magazine reports ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro is believed to have terminal cancer and is unlikely to return to power.
The United States, following crunch talks in London, geared up for a week of tough negotiations with other world powers over a draft United Nations (UN) resolution to impose sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program.
The entire police force in the Mexican city of Tijuana, on the border with the United States, is to be investigated by the federal authorities over possible links with drug trafficking and organised crime.
A senior Republican Senator in the United States has returned from Iraq with a bleak warning about the situation there.
A sailor in the United States Navy has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for his part in the murder of an Iraqi civilian by a squad of American marines.
A deadly dynamite battle between rival groups of Bolivian miners has ended in a truce, and President Evo Morales has fired his mining minister, who was criticised for not anticipating the violence.
A new technology, which sends signals that make bones react as though they are being exercised, is being tested on astronauts.
South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon is the only candidate left in the race to be UN secretary-general Kofi Annan's successor, as all the other contenders have withdrawn.
A US medic who helped kidnap an Iraqi grandfather later killed execution-style by an American squad has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, but will end up serving a year under a plea deal.
Guantanamo guards have described physically and mentally abusing detainees, including slamming one's head into a cell door and denying them privileges merely to anger them, an affidavit says.
The Dow Jones' three-day run of record highs was broken in overnight trade as US jobs data renewed concern about slower economic growth and stubborn inflation.
The Amish community have gathered again for the funeral of one of five girls slain in a schoolhouse in rural Pennsylvania.
Sudan has backed down from a warning to dozens of countries not to pledge troops to a UN force for Darfur, according to the US.
A US Navy medic has admitted taking part in the kidnap of an Iraqi civilian killed by his squad and says the murder was prompted by his patrol leader's anger at the release of a suspected "terrorist" from Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison.
The six world powers seeking to defuse the Iranian nuclear crisis have strengthened pressure on the Islamic state, agreeing to discuss sanctions and lamenting Iran's refusal to suspend uranium enrichment.
NASA scientists have unveiled unprecedented close-up images of a massive crater on Mars they say could open the book on the red planet, from its formation to its history with water - the basis of life on Earth.
US employers added 51,000 jobs in September, the weakest payroll growth in a year, in a further sign of cooling economic growth, the Labor Department says.
The six powers gathering in London to discuss Iran's nuclear program are not expected to make a decision on imposing sanctions against Tehran on Friday, as the US Secretary of State's arrival has been delayed.
The Australian lawyer for Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks says the Federal Government should arrange for his client to be brought home and monitored under a control order.
The United States and Europe reached a last-minute deal on new rules governing the supply of personal data on transatlantic air passengers to US law enforcement agencies as part of the fight against terrorism.
Bidders, at least one them costumed, have paid top dollar for Star Trek items at the start of Christie's auction of memorabilia from the seminal television and movie franchise.
Archaeologists have uncovered a 600-year-old, large underground cemetery belonging to a Peruvian warrior culture.
Two Australian researchers from the Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organisation (CSIRO) have won an IgNobel for their research on how many photos you need to take to ensure that nobody in a group photo has their eyes closed.
Former JonBenet Ramsey murder suspect John Mark Karr has been cleared of child pornography charges in the United States after prosecutors said they did not have enough evidence to go ahead with a trial.
NASA says a piece of space debris punched a small hole in one of space shuttle Atlantis' radiator panels during its recent 12-day spaceflight.
The United States has played down an earlier warning to North Korea over its plans for a nuclear test, saying it is not threatening "lethal" action.
A US House of Representatives panel has announced an investigation into a widening congressional sex scandal that has rocked the majority Republican party.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has urged Iraqi leaders to live up to their promises to halt the brutal wave of violence engulfing their country, on a surprise visit to Baghdad.
US stocks have extended their gains in overnight trade as the Dow Jones industrials drifted up to a third straight record close, with buying sentiment strong in the absence of any major economic news.
Amish families in the US state of Pennsylvania have gathered in a mournful parade of horse-drawn buggies to bury the schoolgirl victims of Monday's schoolhouse shootings.
US Secretary of State Dr Condoleezza Rice flew into Baghdad for a previously unannounced visit, Iraqi officials say.
US Secretary of State Dr Condoleezza Rice has failed to secure any firm agreement from Israel to ease its restrictions on the economically devastated Palestinian territories.
Google Inc is introducing a new search service - strictly for computer programmers only.
The Australian share market has surged 1.5 per cent to its highest point in more than four months.
The foundation that inspired a private sector race to space has announced a new $US10 million ($A13.4 million) prize - this time to inspire a race to sequence the human genetic map faster and cheaper.
The former head of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has defended the information provided by United States intelligence services.
The United States says it will not live with a nuclear-armed North Korea, after the reclusive state announced it was planning a nuclear test.
New York Times journalist RW Apple, a leading writer on war and politics for decades before he returned to writing about the food and wine, died overnight aged 71.
Astronomers have discovered a new class of planets outside the solar system that hug their parent stars so tightly they take less than a day to complete an orbit.
A business jet piloted by two United States citizens was flying at the wrong altitude when it crossed paths with a commercial airliner that crashed last week in the Amazon, killing all 155 people on board, Brazil's Defence Minister says.
The US Government can continue to listen in on phone calls and emails overseas until its appeal of a federal judge's ruling outlawing the eavesdropping program is decided, the US Appeals Court has ruled.
Stock prices on Wall Street headed further into record territory as investors latched on to the possibility that the economy might undergo just a gentle slowing, and at the same time head off further increases in interest rates.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has pledged during her trip to the Middle East to redouble American efforts to help the Palestinian people.
With his Nobel Prize-winning father at his side, freshly-minted Nobel chemistry laureate Roger Kornberg has humbly credited perseverance with making the achievement possible.
Thailand's coup leader says there are no plans to lift martial law any time soon, resisting pressure from human rights groups and foreign governments, including the US.
American DNA scientist Roger Kornberg has won the 2006 Nobel Chemistry Prize for exploring a key process of life called gene transcription.
Republicans in the United States are coming under intense pressure over a widening sex scandal involving congressman Mark Foley.
Searchers have found about 50 bodies scattered around the Amazon site of Brazil's worst plane crash and are keeping wild animals away from the corpses, air force officials say.
The New York Stock Exchange rang the bell on record high share prices this morning as a further plunge in global oil prices propelled the value of leading US companies to new peaks.
The Big Bang that gave birth to the universe sounded less like the mother of all explosions than a jumbo jet flying over your house, a US physicist believes.
The hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica has beaten the record size logged six years ago, the United Nations' weather agency says.
The discovery by John Mather and George Smoot of "cosmic ripples," which has won them this year's Nobel Prize in physics, was lauded in 1992 by cosmologist Stephen Hawking as "the greatest discovery of the century, if not of all time".
The truck driver who killed five Amish schoolgirls meant to molest them first and had confessed to sexually preying on young relatives 20 years ago, police say.
The United States says the international community will have to impose sanctions if Iran does not halt sensitive atomic work.
United States scientists John C Mather and George F Smoot have won the 2006 Nobel physics prize for their work on the big bang theory on the origin of the universe.
Another six US soldiers have been killed in a series of incidents in Baghdad and western Iraq, the US military says.
A seven-year-old victim of a shooting at an Amish school in the United States has died from injuries, bringing the toll to five victims dead and six wounded.
Police say a man with a 20-year grudge is responsible for the shooting at an Amish school in the US state of Pennsylvania.
A fourth girl has died of her injuries after this morning's school shooting in the United States' state of Pennsylvania.
US President George W Bush is "deeply saddened and troubled" by a shooting at a Pennsylvania schoolhouse that left at least three girls dead, the White House says.
Search teams have found the two black boxes of a Boeing 737 that crashed into the rainforest of northern Brazil killing all 155 aboard, the armed forces said.
Federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock says the United States military commission which David Hicks is expected to face has made it clear it will not accept any evidence obtained through torture.
Police in the US have named the gunman who attacked an Amish school in Pennsylvania, killing at least three girls.
A 32-year-old gunman has shot dead three girls at an Amish school in Pennsylvania in the United States.
Weapons manufacturers are being accused of exploiting loopholes in regulations in order to sell their products to countries under arms embargoes or accused of human rights abuses.
American scientists Andrew Fire and Craig Mello have won the 2006 Nobel prize for medicine for discovering how to control the flow of genetic information in a cell.
US Secretary of State Dr Condoleezza Rice has disputed a report that she brushed off the head of the CIA when he warned of a possible attack on the US before September 11, 2001.
Thailand's newly-appointed interim Prime Minister General Surayud Chulanont has spent his first day trying to mend bridges with the United States, which has been a vocal critic of the military coup 13 days ago.
A Canadian teacher who lived a frugal life but gave large, anonymous donations to people in need has left a $A5.2 million fortune to an environmental charity.
Brazil's President has failed to get the 50 per cent he needed to win re-election and will head to a run-off poll, after claims of dirty campaign tricks chafed his support.
Rescuers have found that all 155 people aboard a plane died on Friday when it crashed deep in the Brazilian rainforest. | 