USA: A stuffed armadillo that serves as an on-stage mascot for country music legend Willie Nelson has been returned after being kidnapped from a Las Vegas-area show.

I suppose I should have wondered about the unfamiliar silence that lay over the city of Yogjakarta in central Java when I was woken at 4am by the call of the muezzin to dawn prayers at the mosque.

Villagers in north-western Cambodia have unearthed what authorities say could be a mass grave from the Khmer Rouge era which contains skulls and skeletons - some with their legs bound by rope.

I CAN only hope the extraordinary weather of last week has continued into this one.

IN Cambodia, we met our son and his girlfriend, fresh from their two-day voyage on a slow boat down the Mekong from north Thailand into Laos, and cheerful despite their 20-hour bus journey to meet us at Siem Reap.

Foreign tourists trapped by flash floods while visiting a centuries-old temple in northern Cambodia have been evacuated by helicopter.

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WE’VE had bats around our house for years – pipistrelles, the smallest of Irish bats – and on these early summer nights we see them regularly.

Soldiers from Cambodia and Thailand came close to opening fire on each other today in a border confrontation over land surrounding an ancient temple.

A passenger plane that disappeared in Cambodia likely crashed during a storm according to prime minister Hun Sen.

A passenger plane flying between two popular tourist destinations in Cambodia has crashed today, with at least 27 people on board feared killed, an aviation officials said.

A chartered plane flying between two popular tourist destinations in Cambodia crashed today, with at least 20 people on board feared killed, an aviation official said.

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie toured a former Khmer Rouge death camp, now a genocide museum, during a surprise visit to Cambodia.

The alleged leader of a hostage-taking raid on an international school near Cambodia’s famed Angkor temples today denied in court that he killed a Canadian boy, saying he died from a bullet fired from outside the school.

Angelina Jolie has been awarded Cambodian citizenship in recognition of her environmental and conservation work in the country.

COURT officials yesterday formally charged seven men with involvement in the killing of a two-year-old Canadian boy during last week’s takeover of an international school near Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temple complex.

A MAN driven by a grudge against his former employer led the assault on a Cambodian school, taking dozens of children hostage and shooting a crying two-year-old Canadian boy in the head, police said yesterday.

A man who allegedly led an assault on an international school in Cambodia, taking dozens of children hostage and shooting dead a two-year-old Canadian boy, may have been motivated by a grudge against a former employer, police said today.

MASKED gunmen seized dozens of children at an international school in north-western Cambodia yesterday, killing a Canadian toddler.

A BRIEF visit to Thailand has left an indelible mark on Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie.

Jackie Chan, the Hong Kong action film star known for his daredevil stunts, has been named a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations’ Children’s Fund and UN Aids agencies.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen today denied claims he helped trigger last week’s anti-Thai riots, saying it was part of a well-planned plot by an extremist group.

The Thai actress at the centre of the row that has led to anti-Thai riots in Cambodia has gone into hiding with relatives in Bangkok.

Thailand cut virtually all ties with Cambodia today and evacuated hundreds of its terrified citizens from Phnom Penh after unprecedented anti-Thai riots there.

Demonstrators looted and set fire to the Thai Embassy in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh today when police allowed a protest against a soap star to get out of control.