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| Poll panel ignores Awami demands |
| Bangladesh’s election commission said today parliamentary elections will be held on January 23 and the voters’ list will be updated next week as demanded by a 14-party alliance led by the Awami League.
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| Indonesia Playboy editor trial |
| The editor of Playboy Indonesia went on trial today on charges of distributing indecent pictures to the public and making money from them, which could carry a jail ter
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| Cheney’s gay kin pregnant |
| Mary Cheney, the gay daughter of Vice-President Dick Cheney, is pregnant, the vice-president’s office said yesterday.
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| Russia opens probe |
| Russian prosecutors today launched their own murder investigation into the death of Alexander Litvinenko from radiation poisoning as the Russian former spy was buried at a ra
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| Asian axe on Harrods Santa |
| London’s landmark departmental store Harrods sacked one of its “santas” after complaints that he verbally abused an Asian family, who visited the store.
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| New Iraq plan required: Bush |
| President George W. Bush said today a new strategy was required in Iraq but he would await further reviews beyond the scathing Iraq Study Group report before determining a ne
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