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A Gold Coast tourism industry executive says the city has fought through a difficult 2009 to record an overall increase in visitor numbers.
The latest Tourism Research Australia figures show domestic overnight visitors fell but day trips and international tourists produced an overall increase of 6.2 per cent.
Gold Coast Tourism chief executive Martin Winter says the [...]

The Victorian Government has foreshadowed tougher controls for sex offenders on supervision orders.
This follows a police manhunt for a 36-year-old convicted sex offender who fled from his supervising officer, while on a day trip to Melbourne yesterday.
The man is required to stay at an approved residential address as part of his community supervision order.
He was [...]

New Delhi, July 11 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh returned home Saturday morning after attending the July 8-10 G8-G5 summit in the quake-hit Italian town of L’Aquila.”I am returning to India after attending meetings of the G5 leaders (India, Brazil, China, Mexico and South Africa), of the G5 + G8 and Egypt, and of the [...]

Washington, July 10 (ANI): American singer/actress Hilary Duff, 21, has been named a youth ambassador in Colombian Capital Bogota, in recognition of her efforts to be a role model for kids around the world.

She will be a guest of honour in the city next month, and receive the accolade from Mayor Samuel Moreno.

During her five-day [...]

Washington, June 25 (ANI): South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, who rose through the Republican ranks over the past decade, from congressman to governor to potential 2012 presidential candidate, has tearfully admitted having an affair with an Argentine pen pal, diminishing his future GOP chances.

Sanford, after pulling off a bizarre vanishing act this week, reappeared [...]

Paris – French President Nicolas Sarkozy is to open a new French military base in the Gulf state of Abu Dhabi, the Elysee Palace announced Sunday.
Sarkozy, on a two-day trip to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is to mark on Monday the official opening of the base, at which – according to French media [...]

Washington – US President Barack Obama will make visits to Russia, the G8 Summit in Italy and Ghana during a six-day trip in July, the White House announced Saturday.
Obama was scheduled to arrive on July 6 in Moscow for meetings with Russian President Dimitri Medvedev.
The US and Russian leaders are expected to discuss nuclear weapons [...]

Colombo, Apr.29 (ANI): British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has met with Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama and urged him and the Sri Lankan Government to put a cease-fire in place.

Bogollagama is reported to have told Miliband and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner that Colombo is doing everything possible to save innocent Tamil civilians trapped [...]

WASHINGTON: Global cooperation is needed to tackle the financial meltdown, climate change, nuclear proliferation and other pressing problems,
President Barack Obama
said on Saturday.
Fresh from his first trip overseas as president, Obama used his radio and Internet address to ask people in the United States and around the world to focus on areas of common interest.
“These are [...]

Ankara – US President Barack Obama on Wednesday moved to heal rifts between the United States and Turkey, as well as the wider Islamic world, caused by the US-led invasion of Iraq.
Part of his approach lay in stressing cooperation – not just the use of force – as a way to stop Islamic extremists.
“I [...]

The death toll in Tuesday’s unseasonal tornado in Orissa rose to 10 Wednesday with the recovery of two more bodies, officials said.
‘Two dead bodies were found early this morning. We fear there could be more people trapped under the debris,’ district sub-collector Ranjan Kumar Das told IANS.
He added that at least 20 people are [...]

London, Apr 1 (ANI): Miss Universe 2008, Dayana Mendoza, recently visited the controversial Guantanamo Bay, and claimed that she found the place really “beautiful”.

In her blog, the Venezuelan model has described her five-day trip to the disputed region.

Ever since Mendoza has been crowned Miss Universe last summer, she has travelled Indonesia, Spain, the Bahamas and [...]

New Delhi, Mar. 30 (ANI): The newly appointed chief of paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles, Mainul Islam, is arriving here on Monday to discuss border issues between the two neighboring countries.

Islam, who was appointed as Bangladesh [...]

Berlin – German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung began a three-day trip on Monday to Uzbekistan and Afghanistan, where he is to visit German military troops.
Germany has come under pressure to provide more troops and logistics to the NATO-led effort in Afghanistan, but at the weekend US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton stressed it [...]

Dhaka, Mar 2 (ANI): Pakistan will go ahead with a tour of Bangladesh due to start later this week despite a mutiny in the paramilitary headquarters, a Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) official has said on Monday.

Pakistan scheduled to arrive on Saturday for a 16-day trip to play two Twenty20 and five one-day internationals against the [...]

New Delhi, Feb 17 (ANI): US civil rights leader Martin Luther King III met Congress president Sonia Gandhi here last evening.

Prominent American civil right activists and lawmakers including John Lewis, Congressman Spencer Bachus, Andrew Young and legendary jazz musician and Grammy winner Herbie Hancock are part of the delegation.

The delegation is on a 12-day [...]