Nine people, including two Australians, two South Africans and five Indonesians, were killed when a helicopter flying to a Newcrest mine in Indonesia crashed, said the company on Thursday.

Seventy-two people have been charged with participating in an international child pornography network that prosecutors say used an online bulletin board called Dreamboard to trade tens of thousands of images and videos of sexually abused children.

Iran has no intention of making an atomic bomb and its nuclear program is for purely peaceful purposes, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a television interview on Wednesday.

Hundreds of extra paramilitary troops have been deployed in Pakistan's economic capital Karachi which is struggling to end violence that has killed 58 people in five days, officials said Wednesday.

Norway’s police will track funds used by anti-immigration zealot Anders Behring Breivik as part of a year-long probe into his killing spree that left 77 people dead and the nation stunned.

Muammar Gaddafi's forces counterattacked rebels in a strategic town on Tuesday, killing seven insurgents, as the Libyan leader vowed to crush a Western-backed uprising.

The Philippines said on Wednesday that it would press its territorial claims in the East Sea in accordance with international law before the United Nations, dismissing Chinese criticism that Manila is insincere in resolving the long-simmering disputes.

Asian stocks fell sharply on Wednesday as the U.S. averted a debt default, leading to increasing pessimism over the world's biggest economy’s prospects.

Financial market pressure on Italy intensified on Tuesday, sucking Europe's second biggest debtor nation deeper into the euro area danger zone and prompting emergency consultations in Rome and among European capitals.

Japan passed a law Wednesday to create a state-backed entity that will pay damages worth tens of billions of dollars to the victims of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.