Cricket Australia will back a New Zealand candidate as International Cricket Council vice president due to opposition to its own nomination, former Australian Prime Minister John Howard.

July 30: Al Qaeda briefly planted its flag in Baghdad on Friday as militants killed 23 members of Iraq’s security forces across the country in a combination of shootings and roadside bombs demonstrati

July 30: Russian special forces quickly overpowered a man after he briefly seized a plane with 105 passengers and crew at a Moscow airport on Thursday, officials said.

The plane, which departed from

Ivy Bean, who became an online celebrity as the oldest known user of micro-blogging site Twitter, has died at the age of 104.

A spokesman says a dozen armed men have attacked and torched offices of a private television and radio station in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo.

The death toll in three days of flooding in Pakistan reached at least 267 on Friday, rescue and government officials said, as rains bloated rivers, submerged villages, and triggered landslides.

A grenade exploded near a Bangkok shopping mall on early Friday, injuring one person and rattling the Thai capital less than a week after a similar blast left a bystander dead and several more hospitalised.

July 28: A packed bus hit a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday killing 25 people aboard, as Nato announced another US service member died in a rapidly rising monthly death toll.

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July 28: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated a new policy to encourage population growth, dismissing Iran’s decades of internationally acclaimed family planning as ungodly and a Western

July 28: A former TV crime show host and state legislator accused of commissioning killings to boost ratings has died, a hospital spokeswoman said on Wednesday. Wallace Souza, 51, died of a heart att