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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.
The British Government is providing about $A4.7 million to a Cambridge-based company that is building a robot to help treat baldness.
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.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair says fighting against Taliban forces in Afghanistan has been very tough.
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 musical Les Miserables celebrates its 21st birthday in London this weekend, at the same time as snatching the record as the world's longest-runner from Cats.
There has been a heated debate in Britain after a senior Cabinet minister suggested that Muslim women covering their faces causes division in the community.
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.
Bloggers are scoring rich paydays by turning their online diaries into books, but some publishers say the craze could fizzle out with a glut of new titles destined to yield disappointing sales.
Over 1 million British motorists think about sex rather than the road ahead and millions more who do not indulge in intimate thoughts are worrying about work or thinking about their families, a survey says.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair says the door is open for a final peace settlement in Northern Ireland after an independent report concluded that the IRA is no longer engaged in paramilitary violence.
The British and Irish governments have welcomed a report the Irish Republican Army (IRA) has eschewed terrorism, saying it paves the way for a final political settlement in Northern Ireland.
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) has changed fundamentally from the terror organisation that fought British rule in Northern Ireland for decades and now poses no security threat.
Rescuers say an elderly British woman and her daughter were lucky to have survived two days in New Zealand's Southern Alps after crashing their campervan on a mountain road.
An 18-year-old woman has been charged in connection with an alleged failed attempt to bomb London in July last year, two weeks after the July 7 attacks on the capital's transport network.
A "new" album of Beatles music mixed by their legendary producer George Martin and described as a new "way of reliving the whole Beatles musical lifespan", will be released in November.
Japan has strongly condemned North Korea for pledging to carry out a nuclear test, saying it would "never forgive" the action if carried out.
A leading aid organisation has warned that millions of Africans are at risk of starving due to misspent emergency assistance by Western governments.
An intruder with a knife has been arrested inside the high-security grounds of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Downing Street residence.
Roman Catholic bishops in England and Wales have rejected as "false and entirely misleading" a BBC documentary about an alleged cover-up of child sexual abuse under a system enforced by Pope Benedict XVI in his previous job. | 