World News Australia http://www.admin.sbs.com.au/worldnews/ Japan's Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa, and Yoichiro Nambu of the US have won the Nobel Physics Prize for work on fundamental particles of matter. http://www.admin.sbs.com.au/worldnews/three_scientists_win_nobel_physics_prize_559346 What's playing on your iPod? If you're an aspiring university student, Oxford and Cambridge hope it's them. http://www.admin.sbs.com.au/worldnews/oxbridge_say_podcasts_a_recruiting_tool_559345 Govts and central banks do not understand markets, so it is foolish to trust them to resolve the current global financial crisis, rogue trader Nick Leeson said. http://www.admin.sbs.com.au/worldnews/govts_dont_understand_markets_leeson__559344 Governments scrambled for emergency measures to protect savers, shore up confidence in banks and shield them from a potentially catastrophic cash exodus today amid more panic on global stock markets. http://www.admin.sbs.com.au/worldnews/panic_reigns_on_world_markets__559343 The American author of a best-selling, controversial book blasting White House hopeful Barack Obama has been detained by security officials in Kenya. http://www.admin.sbs.com.au/worldnews/kenya_detains_author_of_antiobama_book_559342 Two huge bombs exploded just outside Baghdad's tightly-guarded Green Zone as US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte was due to address reporters inside. http://www.admin.sbs.com.au/worldnews/bombings_target_baghdad_green_zone__559341 Victoria's proposed abortion legislation received support as it began its journey through the upper house today. http://www.admin.sbs.com.au/worldnews/vic_abortion_reform_debate_begins__559340 Recent Qantas safety issues, from 2006 to present-day. http://www.admin.sbs.com.au/worldnews/timeline_of_qantas_woes_559337 Taiwan's top national security chief was forced to apologise after suggesting China may have developed the deadly SARS virus a bio-weapon. http://www.admin.sbs.com.au/worldnews/sars_a_chinese_weapon_taiwan_official_559338 The British government is expected to announce this week that it will pay compensation to nine women who were sexually abused as girls on Pitcairn Island. http://www.admin.sbs.com.au/worldnews/uk_set_to_compensate_pitcairn_women_559339