The Australian government is considering lifting a decade-old ban on spending foreign aid on abortion advice in developing countries.

Italy’s coast guard recovered the bodies of three illegal immigrants who drowned this morning after their boat capsized off Malta’s coast, officials said, and the Maltese army called off the search for eight others, who were presumed drowned, raising the death toll to 11.

Islamic authorities will prosecute Malaysian men who try to divorce their wives by sending mobile phone text messages or email without going to court, an official said today.