Turkey, Romania, Greece and other Balkan nations reported a complete shut-off of Russian gas shipped via Ukraine on Tuesday.
Palestinian militants in Gaza fired a rocket deepest yet into Israel on Tuesday, lightly wounding a baby, the army said.
A fire in a NZ house that killed four children and left three people seriously injured was started by an unattended chip pan on a stove, fire officers believe.
A drug investigator reportedly says authorities delayed the arrest of a woman tied to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's family until after the November election.
The lone surviving gunman from the deadly attacks on Mumbai has been remanded in custody for a further two weeks, a senior police official told AFP.
Police in China have launched a manhunt for a junk collector suspected in the axe murders of eight people, including a two-year-old boy, state media says.
South Korea's main opposition party has ended a series of sit-ins that brought business at the national assembly to a halt for weeks.
An airline passenger forced to cover his T-shirt because it displayed Arabic script has been awarded A$337,000 in compensation, campaigners said.
Panama seized 53 tonnes of drugs in 2008, took over 42 bank accounts and confiscated 209 vehicles connected with drug trafficking, prosecutors said.
US President-elect Barack Obama is demanding bold action on his near $US800 billion ($A1 trillion) stimulus plan.
A Singapore mother faces a four-year jail term and a fine for having her 10-year-old son caned about 100 times during a marathon beating in 2007.
Separatist militants have shot dead five people in Thailand's Muslim-majority south, where a bloody insurgency is continuing, police say.
US President George Bush is to announce the creation of the world's largest marine protection area spanning 505,000km/sq in the Pacific Ocean.
US president-elect Barack Obama has chosen former White House chief of staff Leon Panetta to head the CIA, two Democrats say.
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