US vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin acted "within proper and lawful authority" in removing the Alaska's public safety commissioner, the McCain-Palin Republican presidential ticket said in response to a state report.

TIBETAN leader the Dalai Lama is in a stable condition after surgery in India to remove gallstones and is likely to be discharged in the next two days, hospital officials said today.

THE US and India have signed an historic deal to open up sales nuclear technology for the first time in three decades.

SARAH Palin abused her position as Alaska Governor by pressuring officials to dismiss a state trooper, an investigator's report said today.

FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy had an affair with the wife of a cabinet member about four years ago, secret notebooks reveal.

DEMOCRATIC candidate Barack Obama's campaign is alarmed at the hate-filled frenzies whipped up at Republican campaigns this week.

FORMER US track star Tim Montgomery, an Olympic gold medalist now banned from the sport, has been sentenced to five years in prison on heroin charges.

BALI Nine heroin gang prisoner Renae Lawrence was last night in a Bali hospital after surgery yesterday.

CHINESE authorities have arrested a man who made 600 tonnes of melamine-laced powder that was destined for the nation's milk supply, in the biggest bust of its kind, state media has reported.

TWO men who tried to carry out car bombings in central London last year escaped the scene in rickshaws, Woolwich Crown Court has been told.