Police have arrested three teenagers over a fire at a high school, north of Sydney.

Two suicide attacks against a counter narcotics office and the intelligence agency killed at least five people and wounded 10 others in eastern Afghanistan, an official said.

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Britain's practice of keeping DNA samples from people with no criminal convictions is a breach of their human rights.

Thailand's Government has cancelled a parliamentary session due next week to select a new prime minister, a government spokesman says, adding to the political crisis gripping the country.

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WHAT would Mao Zedong make of the members' clubs, plunge pools, French cuisine and five-star eco-lodgings turning China into a sybaritic playground?

I HAVE swum too far. I've splashed out from the beach at Bowen on the Queensland coast and, lo and behold, there's coral and tropical fish in clownish costumes. Fringing coral right off a mainland beach is practically unknown along our east coast and for an hour I am lost among the miracles of the underwater world, idling over the small dramas of fishy life.

QINGDAO sailed on to our television screens in August when Australian competitors claimed two golds and a silver at the Beijing Olympic sailing city.

IT'S a sign of these straitened times that regular international flyers are busily talking about the so-called bridge class between economy and business.