THE mother of missing backpacker Britt Lapthorne today provided DNA samples to the Australian Federal Police for comparison with a body found in the sea off the Croatian city of Dubrovnik
AT least 12 people were killed in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria before overnight when a four-storey apartment block collapsed as families slept, security and hospital officials said
ZIMBABWE`S annual inflation soared to 231 million per cent in July, confirming growing hardship in the southern African country, a state newspaper reported today citing official statistics
THE 2008 Nobel Peace Prize could go to a Chinese or Russian dissident in an attempt to highlight the human rights situation in those countries, where the award would unleash strong reactions, experts said ahead of tomorrow`s announcement