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The US Embassy is warning of a possible terrorist attack on Indonesia's Bali island on New Year's Eve.

India's cricket chiefs on Saturday endorsed New Zealand's Alan Isaac as the next vice-president of the world governing body.

After an intensely secretive build-up, Chelsea Clinton and her hedge fund manager beau were to marry on Saturday at a star-studded wedding outside New York.

Philippine President Benigno Aquino has unveiled a massive photo mosaic of his mother, the late president Corazon Aquino, on the first anniversary of her death.

Engineers on Saturday prepared to permanently seal a ruptured Gulf of Mexico well as incoming BP boss Bob Dudley vowed that his company would stand by local residents who have suffered the effects of the spill.

Thousands of mourners paid their respects Saturday in Duisburg to 21 people who died at a techno festival a week before, with many saying the city will take a very long time to heal.

Flag-carrier Philippine Airlines says it has had to cancel several domestic and international flights after some of its pilots quit without giving enough notice

Thousands of people have paid their respects in the German city of Duisburg to the 21 people who died in the Love Parade tragedy a week ago.

Rescue workers and troops in northwest Pakistan struggled Saturday to reach thousands of people affected by the country's worst floods in living memory, as the death toll rose past 400.

Recovery workers have found the black box flight data recorder from the wreckage of Pakistan's worst-ever plane crash, though its condition is unclear.

India's cricket chiefs have turned down a request from beleaguered Commonwealth Games organisers for a grant of one billion rupees ($A24.42 million).

Bangladeshi police have fired rubber bullets in a bid to subdue garment workers who are rioting for a second day in protest against low pay.

Fifty-year-old Merlene Ottey became the oldest athlete to compete at the European Championships after anchoring Slovenia's 4x100 women's relay team.

Incoming BP boss Bob Dudley has vowed that the firm would stand by Gulf residents for years to come, as it prepared to scale back oil spill clean-up efforts and move to a new phase.

Trailrunner7 writes "Microsoft will issue an out-of-band patch on Monday for a critical vulnerability in all of the current versions of Windows. The company didn't identify which flaw it will be patching, but the description of the vulnerability is a close match to the LNK flaw that attackers have been exploiting for several weeks now, most notably with the Stuxnet malware. The advance notification from Microsoft on Friday said that the company is patching a critical vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild and affects all supported Windows platforms. The LNK flaw in the Windows shell was first identified earlier this month when researchers discovered the Stuxnet worm spreading from infected USB drives to PCs. Stuxnet has turned out to be a rather interesting piece of malware as it not only uses the LNK zero day vulnerability to spread, but it had components that were signed using a legitimate digital certificate belonging to Realtek, a Taiwanese hardware manufacturer."

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The Young Socceroos have claimed their second Asean Football Federation under-19s championship title after defeating Thailand 1-0 in Friday night's final.

Thousands of firefighters, including army troops, are battling hundreds of forest fires that are raging across central Russia in the worst heatwave for decades.

Rescue workers and troops in northwest Pakistan are struggling to reach thousands of people affected by the country's worst floods in living memory.

Officials investigating the cause of a huge oil spill along a major river in southern Michigan say it will take months to clean up the mess.

Heavy rains have washed eight anti-personnel mines from North to South Korea in the past week, a military spokesman says.