Australian police have executed more than 100 search warrants across the country and laid nearly 400 charges against 65 people they arrested as part of a sting into a child exploitation website operating out of Canada.
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COLOMBO - Prime Minister Tony Abbott will share a stage with Prince Charles at the opening of the Commonwealth leaders' summit in Colombo on Friday.
VIENNA - Iran has frozen the expansion of its nuclear activities, a UN atomic watchdog report says, in a possible confidence-building measure by new President Hassan Rouhani before talks next week.
PARIS - The United Nations has activated a constellation of satellites to help relief operations in the typhoon-ravaged Philippines as government officials put the death toll from Typhoon Haiyan at 2275.
BAGHDAD - A spate of attacks targeting Shi'ite pilgrims has left at least 57 people dead and 135 injured in central and southern Iraq, security officials say.
BOSTON - Former US crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger has been sentenced to life in prison for his murderous reign in the 1970s and '80s, bringing to a close a case that exposed FBI corruption so deep that many people across Boston thought he would never be brought to justice.
OTTAWA - Toronto's embattled mayor says he will sue former staffers, a bar waiter and others who claimed to have seen him snorting cocaine, and partying with a possible prostitute.
MOSCOW - Russian prison authorities have confirmed that Pussy Riot punk band member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who has not been heard from for more than three weeks, has been moved to a Siberian prison colony.
THE HAGUE - Two Ecuadoran women have been arrested at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport after trying to smuggle out 400,000 euros ($A581,734) in cash - including by swallowing some of the money, Dutch border police say.
PHNOM PENH - A 29-year-old man has died from bird flu in Cambodia and a toddler is critically ill with the virus after carrying sick and dead poultry from a market.
LONDON - New research suggests many girls could be suffering with undiagnosed autism - as they are better at covering up signs of the disorder compared to boys.
LONDON - Targeting a specific group of neurons in the brain could help people quit smoking, say scientists.
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