Bride's family 'desolate' as hotel pair are cleared of honeymoon murder
5:55am The family of Michaela McAreavey told of their "devastation and desolation" last night after two hotel workers were cleared of murdering her during her honeymoon on Mauritius following a series of mistakes by police.
Clashes in Belfast after Protestant march
3:34am Violence have erupted in Northern Ireland following an annual march by the Protestant Orange Order.
Molinari shoots 62 in Scottish Open
Steve Douglas 2:19am Italian golfer Francesco Molinari shot 10-under 62 for a three-shot lead on the first day of the Scottish Open at Castle Stuart.
WikiLeaks court victory in financial fight
Raphael Satter 1:59am WikiLeaks has hailed an Icelandic court ruling as a first-round victory in its campaign against the financial blockade imposed by Visa and MasterCard.
Uni leaders failed abuse victims: report
Peter Voskamp 1:59am An internal Penn State University inquiry has found college officials failed to protect young men from a football coach convicted of child sexual abuse.
Evans loses more time in Tour
Roger Vaughan 1:49am Tour de France champion Cadel Evans has lost time to leader Brad Wiggins in the Alps and dropped from second to fourth overall after stage 11.
Armed Arabs fight back
Mali Members of Timbuktu's Arab community set up an armed brigade to prevent further destruction.
Berlusconi 'to run again'
Silvio Berlusconi plans to contest next year's election to become prime minister for a fourth time.
Billionaire may have been dead for week
London One of Britain's richest men may have lived with his dead wife for a week while he went on a drugs binge.
Blair's back for Labour
Britain Former prime minister Tony Blair is to be given his first formal role since retiring from politics.
Fund-raising gives US lesbians political clout
LPac aims to raise $1 million to back gay-friendly candidates, Paul Harris reports from New York.
Pressure on Romney to get tough
Jeff Zeleny, Washington Pressure is growing on Mitt Romney from within his own party to adopt a more aggressive strategy.
Tiny honour for Bob Marley
Jamaica A tiny parasite that infests fish on Caribbean coral reefs has been named after Bob Marley.
Tycoon joins Putin foes
Russia Alexander Lebedev jumps into the ring with the anti-Putin activist and blogger Alexey Navalny.
France's first family all a-twitter over spat
Francois Hollande's eldest son has attacked the country's 'first lady' Valerie Trierweiler.
Melinda Gates leads contraception battle
Joanna Moorhead Billionaire Melinda Gates throws down the gauntlet with the Vatican promoting contraception access.
Syrian ambassador defects to join revolt
Beirut A former Syrian ambassador says the government turned into ''an instrument to kill people''.
South Korea backs down on whaling
ANDREW DARBY South Korea drops plans for whaling after diplomatic protests and spreading domestic opposition.
Envoy quits post to join anti-Assad revolution
Donna Abu-nasr BEIRUT: Syria's ambassador to Iraq has defected, accusing the government of the President, Bashar al-Assad, of turning the ruling Baath party into ''an instrument to kill people''.
Faith in contraception puts Gates on collision course with the Vatican
Joanna Moorhead LONDON: The billionaire Catholic Melinda Gates has thrown down the gauntlet to the Vatican with a vow to dedicate the remainder of her life to improving access to contraception across the globe.
Deadly avalanche hits French Alps
Antoine Agasse An avalanche has swept over a group of foreign climbers in the French Alps, killing at least nine people.
Troops set to boost security at Games
London The British government will deploy extra troops to provide security at London Olympic venues.
Stoner keen to make up for costly crash
Andrew Gwilym 10:24pm Casey Stoner is keen to make up for the crash that cost him the MotoGP series lead when round nine is raced at Mugello.
South Korea backflips on whaling plan
Karlis Salna, AAP South-East Asia Correspondent 7:29pm Foreign Minister Bob Carr is confident South Korea's assurances that they will not proceed with a "scientific" whaling program was made in good faith.
Plastic found in search for missing helicopter
Tim Barlass 2:44pm A villager in Papua New Guinea this morning provided searchers with their first lead in finding the helicopter and three crew members - two Australian and one New Zealander - missing since last week.
New lead in PNG helicopter search
Eoin Blackwell, AAP Papua New Guinea Correspondent 2:44pm Rescuers say they have their first lead on the whereabouts of a helicopter that went missing in Papua New Guinea with three men on board.
Abbott would trigger 'crisis in relations'
Karlis Salna, AAP South-East Asia Correspondent 1:14pm Foreign Minister Bob Carr has warned of a "crisis in relations" with Indonesia if Tony Abbott wins the next election.
'Weirdest job in Whitehall': UFOs, men in black and Chelsea FC
1:57pm Britain has released an archive detailing government briefings on unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
The curious case of the chain link, Occupy Wall Street and the killing of Sarah Fox
9:23am A puzzling DNA match that appeared to link the 2004 killing of a New York City drama student and evidence collected this year from a protest affiliated with Occupy Wall Street was instead the result of a lab worker who handled both cases, a law enforcement official said Wednesday.
Black Caps bounce back against Windies
9:04am The Black Caps say heeding the lessons from their heavy defeats to the West Indies was the key to their emphatic win in the third one-dayer in St Kitts.