3:00 AM AEST | BEIJING: In the sweltering heat of summer, when the refreshing breezes desert the city, Hu Lianqun absent-mindedly reaches for a solution: he rolls up his shirt to expose his belly, often fanning himself with the garment to create his own airconditioning.
3:00 AM AEST | BANGKOK: There is a gorilla on the seventh floor of a department store in Bangkok.
3:00 AM AEST | TOKYO: Dolphins have been herded into a cove as part of an annual hunt in the Japanese seaside town of Taiji, environmental activists say.
3:00 AM AEST | JAKARTA: A broad consensus is emerging in Indonesia that special autonomy for the country's fractious provinces of Papua and West Papua has failed miserably.
3:00 AM AEST | Divers who found what is believed to be the world's oldest drinkable champagne say they have also discovered two-centuries-old bottles of beer at the site of a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea.
3:00 AM AEST | Philippine police decided against shooting a sacked colleague who hijacked a tourist bus because they wanted to ''save'' him along with his Hong Kong hostages, an inquiry into the fiasco was told yesterday.
3:00 AM AEST | People power is subverting the Republican establishment, writes Simon Mann in Washington.
3:00 AM AEST | ROME: A Europe-wide backlash against Gypsies gathered pace as Rome began demolishing shanty settlements.
3:00 AM AEST | WASHINGTON: BP has warned US Congress that if legislation is passed barring the company from getting new offshore drilling permits, it may not have the money to pay for all the damages caused by its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
3:00 AM AEST | The yearning for silence amid London's incessant bustle has led to increasingly frequent weekend forays into the English countryside, a world redolent with images from stories read in bed as little children. Weeping willows, rolling meadows and ancient stone walls, brooks that really do babble and chatter, and wee groves made for Famous Five-style picnics complete with strawberries and lashings of cream.
3:00 AM AEST | WASHINGTON: The leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority have agreed to a timetable for talks that would seek to narrow their differences and commit to overcoming the weight of history.
3:00 AM AEST | But the tabloid is facing serious allegations of its own, writes Paola Totaro in London.
3:00 AM AEST | THERE is nothing a like a visit to the southern West Bank city of Hebron to dispel any hopes of a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
3:00 AM AEST | LONG-TERM use of drugs prescribed for osteoporosis may be doubling the users' risk of developing cancer of the oesophagus, a study warns.
3:00 AM AEST | CHINA plans to extend its reach into Antarctica - by building a new ice-breaker ship, purchasing a plane and helicopters and upgrading its base into a year-round facility - in line with its rapidly expanding global profile.
3:00 AM AEST | KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has formed a taskforce to scour the internet for blog postings deemed harmful to national unity, in the latest action against new media.
3:00 AM AEST | LISBON: A child sex abuse trial that has lasted almost six years entered its last day after producing chilling testimony from dozens of alleged victims, shaking public trust in Portugal's institutions.
12:06 AM AEST | The response of Chinese leaders is to tighten hardline policies further, writes John Garnaut.
03 Sep 10 | One of the trapped Chilean miners is going to have some explaining to do after his wife ran into his mistress at the mine's entrance.
03 Sep 10 | Israeli and Palestinian leaders launched their first direct negotiations in 20 months, agreeing to meet every two weeks in a bid to reach a lasting peace settlement within a year.
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