AFP - Australian firefighters warned Sunday that gale-force winds forecast for this week threaten to fan wildfires that have killed 210 people in the country's scorched southeast.
AP - Southeast Asian leaders vowed Sunday to stand firm against protectionism and knit the diverse region into a European Union-style community by 2015 despite the global economic crisis.
AP - Bangladesh's military said 72 officers were still missing Saturday after a two-day mutiny by border guards in which at least 76 people died. The government pledged a full investigation as it swiftly moved to restore confidence and reassert control.
AP - Investigators are examining turbulence as one of the possible causes of the Turkish Airlines crash that killed nine people and injured more than 100 near Amsterdam's main airport, a spokesman said Saturday.
Reuters - A shark badly injured a teenage boy while he was surfing with his father at a popular Sydney beach Sunday, police said, the third shark attack in Australia's largest city in a month.
AFP - Australia's finance minister on Sunday told the country's biggest telecoms firm Telstra to stop acting like a "big gorilla" and adopt a less aggressive stance towards the government.
AFP - Geoff Ogilvy rolled to his third final in four starts in the WGC Accenture Match Play Championship with an emphatic 4 and 2 semi-final victory over Stewart Cink.