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Princelings and paupers
3:00 AM | When the kingmaker of Chinese politics, Zeng Qinghong, asked to see the quintessential Australia, his diplomatic minders treated him to jugs of beer and an oversized fillet steak at Brisbane's Breakfast Creek Hotel.
O'Neill gets state of emergency powers before PNG election
3:00 AM | THE Papua New Guinean Parliament has given the O'Neill government state of emergency powers in the capital and two highland provinces allowing it to call out the army.
Corby must spend five years in Indonesia
3:00 AM | SCHAPELLE CORBY could be out of Kerobokan prison as early as July, but would need to live for the next five years in Indonesia, the governor of Bali's jail revealed last night.
3:00 AM | Business in China is inextricably linked to the ''princelings'' and the ruling party appears powerless to stop them, writes John Garnaut.
Mob attacks cast doubt on withdrawal of Solomons mission
3:00 AM | WHEN a mob started yelling death threats and burning down homes in Koa Hill, an impoverished settlement in the Solomon Islands, last month, residents started asking themselves one question: what were the police and the Australian-led assistance mission going to do to stop the violence quickly? The answer was - nothing.
Staying positive the Fox mantra for battling illness
3:00 AM | Occasionally while watching late-night TV, waiting for the moment when his hyper-kinetic Parkinson's-plagued body will grant him sleep, Michael J. Fox will be confronted by his former self.
A day at a time with Pollyanna by his side
3:00 AM | Michael J. Fox tried alcohol but found optimism a stronger tonic, writes Nick Miller in New York.
A tragedy in Niger
3:00 AM | A tragedy is unfolding in Niger where political unrest, drought, grain prices and poverty threaten 18 million lives.
25 May 12 | The Indonesian government has been forced to defend the decision to free Schapelle Corby early, as the backlash against it grows within Indonesia.
25 May 12 | A "damaging" aftershock has shaken Christchurch.
25 May 12 | A "damaging" aftershock has shaken Christchurch.
James Murdoch 'furious' over plans to block BSkyB takeover bid, Leveson inquiry told
25 May 12 | The Conservative minister overseeing the Murdoch bid to take over satellite broadcaster BSkyB warned the Prime Minister that James Murdoch was furious over the government's handling of it and "if we block it, our media sector will suffer for years", the Leveson inquiry heard last night.
25 May 12 | LONDON: A lobbyist for News Corp exchanged 191 phone calls, 158 emails and 800 texts with the office of the British Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, during the company's bid for the satellite broadcaster BSkyB, the Leveson inquiry heard last night.
25 May 12 | British Prime Minister David Cameron is set to give his MPs a free vote on whether gay couples should be allowed to marry, after a major rebellion by his own ministers.
24 May 12 | The Indonesian corrections department says Schapelle Corby would not even be eligible to apply for parole until September, which scuttles the chances that she will be home in August.
24 May 12 | The United Nations Security Council is “redundant as a guardian of global peace”, and its failure to intervene in global conflicts has allowed human rights violations to flourish, a scathing report from Amnesty International has alleged.
24 May 12 | In busy Cairo cafes, in homes, workplaces and on baking hot streets across the country, Egyptians are openly debating who should be their next president.
24 May 12 | Three former News International executives are to face the British Parliament's watchdog over claims they lied when giving phone-hacking evidence.
Backlash in Indonesia against Corby clemency
23 May 12 | A backlash has begun in Indonesia against the granting of clemency to Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Corby.
23 May 12 | Three former executives of Rupert Murdoch's scandal-ridden British arm, News International, are to face Parliament's watchdog over claims they lied when giving evidence over phone-hacking.
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