Barack Obama has announced he will send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan despite growing pessimism about the war.

Despite the roosters and backpackers, Laos can certainly turn on the charm, writes Damian Christie.

The butterfly chaos theory (according to wikipedia) refers to the idea that a butterfly's wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere.

Armed with rock chisels, it took the thief only a few minutes to wipe out 135 million years of history.

Amnesty International is calling on Fonterra and the Government to condemn the executions of two people involved in the San Lu tainted milk powder scandal.

Twenty-one people abducted in the southern Philippines have been found dead in an attack linked to next year's elections.