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3:00 AM | AN ''UNPRECEDENTED'' operation to refloat and remove the sunken Costa Concordia cruise ship will be the most ambitious effort of its kind ever attempted and will cost at least $US300 million.
3:00 AM | A GLITTERING lunch to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's diamond jubilee attracted the largest gathering of royals since Prince William's wedding to Catherine Middleton.
Doctor's true account of the human cost of war
3:00 AM | A record of army injuries from the Afghan war could prove valuable - if it sees the light of day, writes C.J. Chivers in Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
Mexicans numbed by carnage
3:00 AM | Couples were walking hand in hand. Children were frolicking. Just down the road in this northern Mexican town, 49 bodies, headless with their hands and feet hacked off, had been discovered.
3:00 AM | THERE will be no magic wands waved at Camp David this weekend. The euro crisis will be as intense tomorrow as it is now and the G8 is extremely limited in what it can do, beyond talk.
3:00 AM | A retired Chinese military officer has come up with a simple answer to a complex question that preoccupies Australian prime ministers, strategists and spooks: how to respond to the rise of China?
Chen embarks on flight to freedom
3:00 AM | The blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng, whose dramatic escape from house arrest last month sparked a diplomatic crisis between China and the United States, was hurriedly taken from a Beijing hospital last night to board a plane for the US.
3:00 AM | The East Timorese political party headed by Prime Minister and former guerilla leader Xanana Gusmao has been accused of corruptly raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in political donations, as Mr Gusmao leads this weekend's celebrations marking the 10th anniversary of his country's independence.
3:00 AM | Outraged by cuts to living standards, more and more people are turning to radical politics and even violence.
19 May 12 | Its three great basins - the Indus, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra - are the most densely populated area in the world. The Ganges alone supports half a billion people.
Olympic bill worth it, says Princess Anne
19 May 12 | The Princess Royal said that she sympathises with those who object to the cost of staging the Olympics this year and understands that some people will think the Games ''extravagant'' given Britain's economic climate.
19 May 12 | Tight security and high anxiety underwrote the final sitting of Papua New Guinea's outgoing Parliament this week, with rumours running hot that an 11th-hour power play would derail the looming national election and plunge the troubled nation deeper into uncharted straits.
19 May 12 | To Ines Lemos, the celebrations in Dili today marking the 10th anniversary of East Timor's independence mean little.
Shadow of the past haunts nation's future
19 May 12 | Poverty and inequality are the dark side to a free East Timor, writes Lindsay Murdoch in Dili.
Shackled to a shrine for being mentally ill
18 May 12 | JALALABAD: The young man sits nearly naked in a small concrete room, a thick, heavy chain fastened around his ankle and bolted to the wall. Flies swarm around a wound on his wrist where shackles have rubbed the skin raw.
Militarising Cocos Islands will be betrayal, says former ambassador
17 May 12 | DEFENCE'S plans to develop the Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean as a base for Australian and US spy drones and aircraft run counter to assurances Canberra has given the United Nations, one of Australia's most senior foreign policy figures has warned.
16 May 12 | An Australian man has reportedly died in a hotel room in Colombia.
16 May 12 | INDONESIA'S national police will ban pop diva Lady Gaga from performing in Jakarta because they say her show poses a threat to security and morality.
Canberra 'must pick strategic godfather'
16 May 12 | AUSTRALIA must find a ''godfather'' to protect it and cannot juggle its relationships with the US and China indefinitely, according to a prominent Chinese defence strategist.
Ex-Murdoch chief faces phone-hack charges
16 May 12 | FORMER chief executive of News International Rebekah Brooks has been charged by British prosecutors with trying to cover up the tabloid phone-hacking scandal.
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