ABC News: Breaking Stories

New York Federal Reserve president Timothy Geithner has been selected to become US Treasury Secretary amid the global financial crisis, a key adviser to President-elect Barack Obama said.

Pop princess Kylie Minogue wants to team up with 80s heart throbs Duran Duran for a new single.

Two astronauts on the US space shuttle Endeavour have completed a seven-hour spacewalk as part of efforts to repair the orbiting International Space Station.

A college student was attacked by a panda in a south China park after climbing a fence and trying to hug the endangered animal in its enclosure, state media reported.

A bomb blast in an Afghan market has killed two people, authorities said, also reporting other unrest-linked violence that left three more civilians and 14 militants dead.

Unknown gunmen threw hand grenades into a wedding party in northern Afghanistan, killing eight people and wounding 62, officials said, in an attack condemned by President Hamid Karzai.

The Federal Government is releasing a 75 page progress report to mark the anniversary of its first year in office.

Almost a fifth of Amsterdam's popular marijuana-selling coffee shops are to be closed because they are too close to schools, the city council said.

The death toll from floods in south-eastern Ethiopia has risen to 17 and more than 100,000 people have been left homeless, the Government said.

Pakistani forces have killed 40 Islamist fighters as artillery and jet fighters backed ground troops fighting in the Bajaur tribal region, and an air strike hit militants in Swat valley, officials ...