A teacher at a Melbourne deaf school who made students expose themselves in class has avoided jail time because he has cancer.The man, 55, asked the students to expose their genitalia in class in the 1970s, the Victorian County...

A cruise ship operating in Alaska has fatally struck a whale.Princess Cruises says the dead whale became stuck at the bow of the Sapphire Princess, and the vessel was stopped south of Douglas Island until the carcass could be...

The UN General Assembly has declared access to clean water and sanitation a "human right".However, more than 40 countries including the United States failed to support the resolution.The resolution adopted by the 192-member...

The Tongan government has agreed to deploy 275 soldiers to Afghanistan over the next two years at the request of the British government.Prime Minister Feleti Sevele put the motion before Parliament, which voted 22-0 in favour...

A Canadian man who videotaped himself having sex with girls as young as eight in Cambodia and Colombia victimised the children, a judge ruled in sentencing him to 11 years in prison.Justice Austin Cullen sentenced Kenneth Klassen,...

ISLAMABAD - A passenger jet crashed into the hills surrounding Pakistan's capital amid poor weather on Wednesday, killing all 152 people on board and blazing a path of devastation strewn with body parts and twisted metal wreckage.Initial...

Sydney airport is experiencing some disruption due to early morning fog, with several international flight arrivals diverted to Melbourne.A spokesman for Sydney airport said heavy fog caused some disruption to eight flights attempting...

Workers have begun cleaning up a chemical spill in northeastern China after more than 3,000 containers of chemicals were washed into a river by the worst floods to hit the country in more than decade.The buckets, containing a...

Twenty-four hours before he moved into Downing Street, David Cameron told his wife he did not think he would become Prime Minister because he was sure the Liberal Democrats would do a deal with Labour.When the Queen invited him...

A French couple was in custody Wednesday after police found the corpses of eight newborn babies in a village in northern France, a judicial official said.The official said the detained couple, in their mid-40s, were the parents...