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RICHARD Branson has written to the president of Indonesia to ask him to spare the lives of two Australian drug smugglers.

Government forces had "withdrawn the lion's share of multiple launch rocket systems and heavy artillery" and the rebels "have also withdrawn a significant part", Poroshenko told state television Monday night.

A SOUTH Korean flight attendant is suing Korean Air and a jailed former executive in the US over what became known as the "nut rage" incident.

LAWMAKERS in Utah have proposed resuming the use of firing squads to carry out the death penalty if lethal injections drugs are not available.

FLORIDA is widely known as the Sunshine State but when it comes to harnessing solar power, lots of customers find it just doesn't pay because electricity is already cheap and there is

JAPAN marked the fourth anniversary Wednesday of the quake-tsunami disaster that swept away thousands of people and sparked a nuclear crisis, a tragedy that has left visible scars on the landscape and

MYANMAR state media Wednesday announced an inquiry into a Yangon protest crackdown, the first of two recent violent confrontations with student demonstrators which sparked international alarm and raised fears of a return

ARGENTINE officials are investigating Monday's collision between two helicopters that killed eight French nationals and both Argentine pilots.

COLOMBIA is to halt bombing raids against Farc rebels for a month, President Juan Manuel Santos says, in a further sign of progress in the country's peace process.

THE chief executive of the US city Ferguson, in Missouri, has resigned after a federal report alleged widespread racial bias in the city police department and cour