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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.
More than 180 Chinese dissidents and rights activists have signed a letter urging the International Olympic Committee to press China to improve its human rights record ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
The Australian Shareholders' Association (ASA) is urging potential Telstra investors to be wary of the risks the company faces.
Queensland Premier Peter Beattie has called for a controversial school assignment to be withdrawn.
Japan's new Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, has arrived in Beijing at the start of the first visit by a Japanese leader to China for five years.
Trade unions have hit out at claims that they have too large an involvement in setting school curricula across Australia.
At least 19 children have been killed on their way to school in central Vietnam when their boat capsized, an official says.
Pakistan has united in mourning to remember around 73,000 people killed in an earthquake exactly a year ago.
Two Australian men have been arrested in Siem Reap, the gateway to Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat temples, accused of stealing artifacts from the complex, local police say.
Queensland Premier Peter Beattie says he supports the decision to stand aside a police officer who was found responsible for the death of a man in custody on Palm Island.
Federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock says he is not aware of Australian authorities having any information that would lend weight to claims of a terrorist plot targeting the Australian and English cricket teams.
Thailand's military-installed premier Surayud Chulanont has unveiled his Cabinet after receiving approval from the country's revered King, an official said.
Nationals leader Mark Vaile has called a meeting with a number of his party colleagues who are concerned about the Government's planned shake-up of media laws.
Smoking will be banned in all public places in France from next February.
The Finance Sector Union (FSU) has placed advertisements in newspapers around Australia to highlight its concern over banking jobs being sent overseas.
The Federal Opposition says Australia's tax laws must be overhauled to provide greater incentives for middle to lower income earners.
A man has been charged with the attempted murder of another man and a woman at a hotel in Sydney's CBD.
Russian police have released security footage of the chief suspect in the murder of high-profile investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
The Picasso: Love and War exhibition, which closed yesterday, attracted 224,000 people to the National Gallery of Victoria during its 101 days.
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.
Prime Minister John Howard will mark the start of mental health week today by outlining the expanded Medicare rebates available from next month for some psychiatry and other therapy.
A major review of Australia's privacy laws has found people's views on the issue are changing.
Another of the Navy's Fremantle class patrol boats was farewelled this weekend, despite ongoing concerns about the fuel system in the $500 million replacement Armidale class fleet.
The former chairman of Cricket Australia, Bob Merriman, says he knew nothing of a plot to attack the Australian and English teams during last year's Ashes tour.
The family of V8 driver Mark Porter, who died last night from injuries he suffered in a high speed collision at Bathurst on Friday, has appealed for privacy.
Japan and China have hailed the first leadership summit in five years as a turning point in their relationship.
The Rural Fire Service says initial investigations into a bushfire in Sydney's north show it started from an illegal backyard burn.
The Federal Government will today launch the prospectus for the third sell-off of its Telstra shares.
The Senate is expected to devote much of this week to debating the future of the nation's media ownership laws.
US and Iraqi forces killed at least 30 Shiite militiamen during a fierce street battle in the southern city of Diwaniyah.
Firefighters are battling a blaze at Cheshunt near Benalla in Victoria's north-east.
North Korea warned of catastrophic consequences if South Korea's military engaged in "unforgivable military provocation" like the weekend skirmish at a heavily fortified border between the two Koreas.
Iran has urged world powers against using the "language of threats" over its nuclear program as UN Security Council diplomats prepared to draft a resolution proposing sanctions against Tehran.
Police searched for gunmen who killed two German journalists while they spent the night in a tent in a remote area of northern Afghanistan.
Thousands of people protested across Bangladesh as a power shortage widened with the accidental shut down of another generation unit, officials say.
A militia faction that controlled Somalia's port of Kismayo until it was seized by Islamists last month vowed on Sunday to recapture the city, encouraged by a series of protests against the new leadership.
Saddam Hussein's defence team will continue to boycott his trial on charges of genocide against Iraq's Kurdish minority when it resumes this week, his lead Iraqi lawyer Khalil al-Dulaimi says.
V8 driver Mark Porter died on Sunday following the critical injuries he suffered in a crash at Mount Panorama in Bathurst on Friday.
The bushfire raging in Sydney's north is now threatening a National Park.
Fierce clashes erupted between Shiite militiamen and US forces in the southern Iraqi city of Diwaniya, the military says, leaving at least 20 militiamen dead. | 