Qantas will resume flights after an independent tribunal orders a permanent end to the industrial dispute with union members.

Traces of bone-eating "zombie worms" have been found in a three million year old fossil from Italy, say researchers.

Nato's mission over Libya is set to end after more than seven months, despite calls from the National Transitional Council for the operation to continue.

The outgoing president of the ECB, Jean-Claude Trichet, says it is "absolutely normal" for the eurozone countries to seek help from China.

A former left-wing rebel, Gustavo Petro, 51, has been elected mayor of the capital, Bogota, after local elections in Colombia.

The Japanese government intervenes in the currency market to weaken the yen after the currency hit a post-war high.

A car bomb explosion outside the offices of an aid agency in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar kills four people.

Nepal's minority Christian community threatens to go on a hunger strike unless the government sets aside land for them to bury their dead.