crowds of mourners gathered in phnom penh to pay their respects to their former king norodom sihanouk's body arrived on a flight from beijing where he arrived on monday. he ruled cambodia for more than half a century through independence and civil war. his son, and the prime minister accompanied the body as it arrived home. cambodians crowded the airport to pay their respects. norodam sihanouk ascended to the throne at the age of 18. he led cambodia's struggle for independence in 1953. during the cold war sihanouk claimed a policy of neutrality but he wasn't shy of seeking assistance from both sides to help the cambodian economy. as king he was twice expelled from his country. once in a pro-u.s. coup, and a second time after his country was invaded by the vietnamese. sihanouk was placed under house arrest for several years during the brutal rule of the khmer rouge in the late 1970s. that tragic period saw the deaths of more than 1.7 million cambodians. many of them were massacred. others died during forced labor. in 1991, sihanouk helped bring peace to his country with the assistance of

flags being flown at half mast in cambodia in an interview to the country's former king norodom sihanouk who has died at the age of 89. his body being flown back to beijing when he suffered a fatal heart attack. european union member states are set to announce a new package of sanctions against the run over its nuclear program. diplomats said the measures would focus on dealings with the iranian banks, trade, and deficits. it's become one of the greatest concerns of parents, the possibility that a child sex offender might live in your neighborhood. people in one part ' now will be able to find out from a online register of convicted pedophiles which will indicate where they live. legal groups have questioned how useful it will be endeavoring concerns about the potential of vigilante attacks. >> named and shamed, the new web site where australians can go to find out if they have a convicted sex offender living near them. these pictures are not actual offenders because it is an offense to publicize their faces. parents can hand over their name and a driver's license and access the web site