Phillip Hughes falls for 31 on the stroke of lunch as Australia reach 55-1 in the final Ashes Test in Sydney, Chris Tremlett taking the wicket.

South Korea is tightening rules to combat illegal whaling and the processing of whale meat, its government says.

Egyptian Coptic Christians angered by a deadly bombing at a church in Alexandria clash with police for a second day.

The UN official investigating alleged abuses in Ivory Coast after a disputed election says he has evidence of extra-judicial killings.

An intense spell of cold weather disrupts life across northern India, reportedly claiming at least two dozen lives.

South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak says the door to talks with the North remains open, if Pyongyang's 'military adventurism' ends.

Officials probe why more than 1,000 red-winged blackbirds - most of them dead - fell out of the sky in the US state of Arkansas on New Year's Eve.

Blood-sucking sea lampreys feed on prey as big as minke whales, new photographs suggest.