Wed 31 Dec 2008
An Indonesian court acquits a retired deputy intelligence chief of ordering the murder of a leading rights campaigner.
Wed 31 Dec 2008
In China, four milk company executives go on trial after at least six babies died and thousands were sickened by tainted milk.
Wed 31 Dec 2008
A concerted diplomatic drive is under way to try to end Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip and Hamas rocket attacks.
Wed 31 Dec 2008
Argentine builders strike oil - olive oil, that is - in a Spanish galleon
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Construction workers in Argentina find oil - of the olive variety - as they unearth a colonial-era Spanish ship believed to be 250 years old.
Wed 31 Dec 2008
A New Zealand passenger plane successfully completes a two-hour test flight partly powered by vegetable oil.