India passes food-for-poor scheme 27 Aug 2013 | 04:05 pm

India's parliament has passed the Food Security Bill - program hoped to wipe out malnutrition in the country - after a nine-hour debate.

US warns Syria after chemical strike 27 Aug 2013 | 04:05 pm

US Secretary of State John Kerry says a chemical attack took place in Damascus and that the US will be demanding "accountability".

Aussies queue to pre-poll vote in London 27 Aug 2013 | 04:01 pm

The Liberals had more volunteers handing out how-to-vote cards than Labor on the first day of pre-poll voting in London but the ALP won the signage war.

Snipers in Syria 'shoot at UN chemical inspectors' 27 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am

Unidentified snipers shot at UN experts forcing them to suspend their attempt to investigate claims that chemical weapons had been used near Damascus, a UN spokesman said.

UN team visiting suspected Syria chemical attack site 27 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am

UN experts are heading to the site of a suspected deadly chemical weapons attack in Syria as the West mulled possible military action but President Bashar al-Assad warned that any strike would fail. ...

UN experts head to suspected Syria chemical attack site 27 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am

Victorian police officer thought 'life under threat' 27 Aug 2013 | 05:01 am

A police officer who shot dead a Melbourne driver during a routine traffic stop believed his life was in immediate threat, police says.

Nauru drops charges against asylum seekers 27 Aug 2013 | 03:47 am

Prosecutors have dropped riot charges two days into the trial of 10 asylum seekers over damage done to the Nauru camp in September 2012.

China prosecutors demand heavy sentence for Bo Xilai 27 Aug 2013 | 02:52 am

Two die in raid by Israeli troops 27 Aug 2013 | 02:38 am

An official at a Ramallah hospital said two Palestinians died from gunshot wounds and 16 were injured in an Israeli raid to capture a terror suspect.