ICT magazine

A former Serb paramilitary leader wanted in Croatia for war crimes has won an appeal against his extradition.Australia's federal court said he faced a "substantial or real chance of prejudice" if he was sent to Croatia. Dragan Vasiljkovic was ...

The Commonwealth is set to suspend Fiji if it continues to refuse to bow to international demands to call elections by next year.The grouping of 53 nations had demanded that Fiji commit to holding elections ...

The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has held a prayer ceremony in southern Taiwan in memory of ...

The American man jailed for visiting Burma's detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is expected to be deported from the country shortly.Visiting US Senator Jim Webb said after meeting Burma's ...

A 48-year-old Thai elephant is due to be fitted with an permanent artificial leg, 10 years after losing a limb from treading on a land mine.Motola was measured up at an elephant hospital on Saturday before experts ...

President Ma Ying-jeou of Taiwan has apologised for the slow official response to Typhoon Morakot."We could have done better and we could have been faster," he told reporters one week after the typhoon struck. Hundreds ...

Two Japanese ex-PMs have visited a controversial shrine honouring Japan's war dead, including war criminals.The visit by Junichiro Koizumi and Shinzo Abe coincides with the anniversary of the end ...

US Senator Jim Webb has arrived in Burma on a visit during which he is to meet military ruler Than Shwe.He would be the most senior US official to meet ...

South Korea's president has called for talks with North Korea on cutting conventional weapons on the two nations' heavily fortified border.Lee Myung-bak also renewed a pledge to provide aid if ...

By Cindy SuiBBC News, Hsiaolin, TaiwanDriving into Hsiaolin, the village worst hit by Typhoon Morakot, it is difficult for people who have never seen it before to realise that it ever existed.From 300 ...

Hopes are fading that rescuers will be able to save hundreds of people trapped by mudslides and floods in Taiwan, six days after Typhoon Morakot struck.Thousands of troops are struggling across shattered roads and collapsed bridges to reach stranded communities. The official death toll has risen to 120, but ...

Striking images from around the world this week

A court in Australia has ruled that a quadriplegic man who wants to die can tell his carers to stop feeding him.The judge in the western city of Perth said the nursing home would not be held criminally responsible. In a ...

North Korea has freed a South Korean worker arrested in March at a joint industrial zone near the border, a South Korean official has said.A spokesman for the unification ministry said the worker was handed over to employees of his ...

Taiwan has appealed for international technical assistance to help rescue more than 2,000 people stranded after Typhoon Morakot caused major mudslides.The Taiwanese authorities say they need giant ...

At least 43 people - including 23 soldiers and 20 militants - have been killed in clashes in the southern Philippines, an army commander says.Maj Gen Benjamin Dolorfino said the casualties came as the military overran a camp belonging to ...

By Nick BryantBBC News, SydneyThe Australian government has proposed a budget to implement a long-standing plan to cull the country's camels by shooting them.Animal welfare supporters reject the plan, ...

Film revisits painful episode in Australia's backyard

The Australian parliament has rejected government plans to introduce an ambitious carbon trading scheme to tackle global warming.The measure was the centrepiece of the government's environment plans, and would have cut greenhouse gas emissions by 5% over ...

By Robert WalkerBBC World ServiceRomam Fil is moving rapidly through a dense patch of forest. Every few metres he pauses and points to edible plants and roots that the Jarai people of north eastern Cambodia have relied on for ...