Australia said today it has imposed new sanctions against two Iranian companies and an Iranian general to protest against Tehran's nuclear programme.

INDONESIAN police have confirmed that regional terror outfit Jemaah Islamiyah were behind the twin suicide blasts at Jakarta hotels, and said one of the bombers had been identified.

Burma’s Nobel Prize-winning pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi faced new charges today less than two weeks before her house arrest was due to end after an American man swam across a lake and entered her home, her lawyer said.

Thousands of people gathered on former battlefields in Turkey to honour soldiers killed in the devastating World War I Battle of Gallipoli 94 years ago.

The president of East Timor was seriously ill in an Australian hospital today after being shot during a failed coup.