MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Anti-doping officials have met with six top-flight Australian rugby league clubs named in a national probe into the use of banned performance-enhancing drugs that has sent shockwaves through the sports-mad country. The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Agency (ASADA) briefed National Rugby league (NRL) clubs Manly, Cronulla, Newcastle, Penrith, North Queensland and Canberra on their investigation process on Tuesday after the clubs confirmed they were under scrutiny in the wake of an explosive report released last week. …
McCullum, bowlers help NZ level T20 series v England
HAMILTON (Reuters) – Captain Brendon McCullum led the way with the bat while his bowlers produced a disciplined display to beat England by 55 runs in the second Twenty20 international at Seddon Park on Tuesday and level the three-match series. McCullum had anchored New Zealand’s innings to power them to 192 for six with 74 runs from 38 balls as he plundered England’s attack for six boundaries and five sixes. …
Iran may allow UN team to visit key military site
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday raised prospects that Tehran may allow inspectors from the U.N. nuclear agency to visit a military site where the country is suspected of conducting nuclear-related experiments. Group: Somali journalist detained without trial
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- An international human rights organization says a journalist is being detained without charge in Somalia for speaking about the imprisonment of a fellow reporter.
NATO condemns North Korea's nuclear test 'in strongest terms,' calling it irresponsible
BRUSSELS – NATO’s governing body is harshly criticizing North Korea’s recent nuclear test, calling it “irresponsible” and a flagrant violation of U.N. Security council actions.
Retiring pope faces uncharted territory
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- For months, construction crews have been renovating a four-story building attached to a monastery on the northern edge of the Vatican gardens where nuns would live for a few years at a time in cloister. Only a handful of Vatican officials knew it would one day be Pope Benedict XVI’s retirement home.
Former Italy intelligence chief jailed in rendition case
MILAN (Reuters) – A court jailed Italy’s former military intelligence chief for 10 years on Tuesday for the kidnapping of an Egyptian Muslim cleric in an operation organized by the United States. An American former CIA station chief was earlier this month given a seven-year jail sentence after imam Abu Omar was snatched from a Milan street in 2003 and flown to Egypt for interrogation during the U.S. “war on terror”. Milan appeals court judges sentenced Niccolo Pollari, former head of the Sismi military intelligence agency, to 10 years and jailed his former deputy Marco Mancini for nine years. …
NATO condemns North Korea's nuclear test
BRUSSELS (AP) -- NATO’s governing body is harshly criticizing North Korea’s recent nuclear test, calling it “irresponsible” and a flagrant violation of U.N. Security council actions.
Philippines Catholics hope, pray for Asia's first pope
MANILA (Reuters) – With attention turning from Europe to the "new" world, worshippers in the Philippines prayed quietly and took to social media on Tuesday in the hope their cardinal might be chosen as the next leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics. Many Catholics in the Philippines, the largest Christian community in Asia, were shocked by Pope Benedict's resignation, including their charismatic leader, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle. "Pope Benedict XVI's renunciation of the ministry as Bishop of Rome on February 11, 2013 came as a surprise," Tagle said in a statement. … TIMELINE: North Korea's pursuit of nuclear weapons
North Korea conducted its third nuclear test Tuesday, the latest step in a years-long effort to develop nuclear weapons. Experts believe the country remains far from having a nuclear-armed missile that could threaten the United States, which would require an accurate long-range rocket and a nuclear warhead that could b e mounted on it. Here is a look at North Korea's progress so far: Cricket-McCullum, bowlers help NZ level T20 series v England
HAMILTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) – Captain Brendon McCullum led the way with the bat while his bowlers produced a disciplined display to beat England by 55 runs in the second Twenty20 international at Seddon Park on Tuesday and level the three-match series. McCullum had anchored New Zealand’s innings to power them to 192 for six with 74 runs from 38 balls as he plundered England’s attack for six boundaries and five sixes. …
In address to Congress, Obama likely to focus on economy, guns, immigration
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s speech Tuesday night on the condition of the United States will likely focus on cajoling recalcitrant lawmakers into bending to his second-term agenda on such issues as immigration reform, reducing gun violence and increasing taxes.
Auditor and budget officer's F-35 critiques watered down in Commons report
OTTAWA – Stinging criticism of the political and bureaucratic fiasco surrounding the F-35 by the country’s budget officer and even the auditor general was edited out of the final version of a parliamentary investigation, a draft copy of the report shows.
South Africa's big building plans stall
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – When President Jacob Zuma said last year South Africa would spend $95 billion on roads, ports and railways before 2015, domestic construction firms such as Sanyati should have been cele brating. But the company's bosses were too busy trying to stave off bankruptcy because they said the government had failed to pay $6 million for an earlier contract to build and repair roads. The government says Sanyati, which folded with the loss of 2,500 jobs, was also to blame for entering illegal building contracts with a provincial administration. … 
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