He caused a storm around the world when filmed chain smoking cigarettes – aged just two years old. Now Indonesian toddler Ardi Rizal is centre of attention again after kicking his 40-a-day habit. Read the full story

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is wanted in Sweden where he has been accused of rape, a prosecutor has said. Karin Rosander, director of communications at Sweden’s prosecutors’ office, said an arrest warrant for the 39-year-old Australian was issued late on Friday. Read the full story

Pakistan was actively collaborating with the Taliban in Afghanistan while accepting U.S. aid, new U.S. military reports showed, a disclosure likely to increase the pressure on Washington’s embattled ally. Read the full story

Iranian scholar Shahram Amiri, who was freed 14 months after being kidnapped by US and Saudi agents, says he turned down a 50 million dollar bribe offer by the US for cooperation. Read the full story

U.S. military officials and geologists have determined that the mineral deposits in Afghanistan are worth nearly $1 trillion, the Pentagon said Monday. Read the full story

A former police officer for a California subway system has been found guilty of shooting dead an unarmed passenger last year. Johannes Mehserle was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. Read the full story

A DECISION not to charge two security guards over the heat stroke death of a West Australian Aboriginal elder in a prison van has been greeted with anger and disbelief. Read the full story

Israel’s prime minister and defense chief will be called to testify in an investigation into a deadly raid on a Gaza aid flotilla, the leader of an Israeli commission of inquiry said in an opening statement Monday. Read the full story

This is the moment a white American police officer punches a teenage black girl in the face after a dispute about how she and her friend crossed the road. Video footage of Officer Ian Walsh lashing out at the 17-year-old in Seattle has shocked the U.S. Read the full story

It is always dangerous for a reporter to become the story. For Helen Thomas, two months before her 90th birthday, it has meant the end of her career. Read the full story

More than 10 people have been killed after Israeli commandos stormed a convoy of ships carrying aid to the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army says. Read the full story

Russia has been accused of blocking support for its many victims of sex trafficking by closing foreign help-centres. This is despite calls for the country to ratify an EU convention on the problem. Read the full story

At least 44 people have died during fighting between police and gunmen in the current anti-drug offensive in Kingston, Jamaica’s ombudsman says. Read the full story

Canada, addressing one of the darkest chapters in its history, formally apologised on Wednesday for forcing 150,000 aboriginal children into grim residential schools, where many say they were sexually and physically abused. Read the full story

THE Duchess of York is shamelessly plotting to sell access to her trade envoy ex-hubby Prince Andrew for £500,000. Greedy Sarah Ferguson, 50, was filmed on Tuesday night taking a $40,000 (£27,000) cash down-payment from an undercover News of the World reporter. Read the full story

Alastair Campbell was involved in an extraordinary on-air row after Sky News political editor Adam Boulton accused him of not ‘actually caring’ about the country. Read the full story

Presidents Obama and Medvedev recently told me that they support sanctions against Iran, but Ahmadinejad made clear that he is not concerned nor will he back down, saying any measure Obama takes “will be proportionately confronted by a position that Iran will take” because “We don’t have a special friendship with Mr. Obama.” Read the full story

Allegations that fashion model Naomi Campbell was given a “blood diamond” by the deposed African despot Charles Taylor have become center stage at Taylor’s trial for crimes against humanity and led to another one of Campbell’s infamous outbursts of anger. Read the full story

The influential rapper Guru has died in hospital aged 43 following a battle with cancer. The Boston-born MC, real name Keith Elam, was hospitalised last month after he suffered a heart attack and had been in a coma. Read the full story

A shocking video of police beating a student has provoked outrage across America and led to a probe by the FBI into alleged police brutality. Read the full story

The Syrian government has transferred long-range Scud missiles to Hezbollah in a move that threatens to alter the Middle East’s military balance, Israeli and U.S. officials alleged. Read the full story

Opposition leaders in Kyrgyzstan announced today that they had toppled the Government after a day of rioting that left as many as 100 dead and hundreds wounded. Read the full story

WikiLeaks has posted a video on its website which it claims shows the killing of civilians by the US military in Baghdad in 2007. Read the full story

Sky News first exposed the problem almost two years ago when we reported on babies like Fatima Ahmed, who was born with two heads. Read the full story

The fiercely pro-Israeli Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was among the guests at the controversy-filled Arab League summit in Libya with the supposed aim of forming a unified strategy against Tel Aviv’s illegal settlement plans in Palestinian territories. Read the full story

Thousands of supporters of the US conservative Tea Party movement have gathered in Nevada for a rally led by Republican politician Sarah Palin. Read the full story