LAW & SOCIETY

Microchip analyst Chipworks has confirmed that the A5 processor of the iPhone 4S is made by Samsung, Apple Inc.'s supplier-turned-legal adversary.

While the world has gone used to seeing men get convicted over child pornography, a Swedish court has convicted 23 women over the despicable crime this time, proving that child abuse and sexual offenses are not exclusive to men, although the ring leader of these women is a man.

The bus drivers union agreed on Tuesday night to an Industrial Relations Commission order to lift a ban on gas-powered buses in Sydney. The explosion of a gas-powered bus prompted public bus drivers to raise their protest by refusing to get on the road, resulting in huge inconvenience among Sydney passengers at peak hour Tuesday.

A suspected explosion in a gas-powered bus prompted public bus drivers to park their vehicles instead of getting on the road, creating commotion among Sydney passengers at peak hour. Fearing the risk of another explosion, drivers are refusing to drive 700 gas-powered buses after learning about a video footage of a bus in fire reportedly after an explosion.

A teenager who murdered a 15-year-old boy was detained for life after a judge ruled that he committed "a particularly heinous crime," and reoffending is a real danger if he comes out of jail. The boy, who cannot be named under Queensland law, killed a high school student in a random knife attack at a shopping plaza.

A teenager who murdered a 15-year-old boy was detained for life after a judge ruled that he committed "a particularly heinous crime," and re-offending is a real danger if he comes out of jail.

Anti-rape campaigners are raising a howl over Facebook's refusal to remove pages that glorify and make fun of rape and violence against women.

Bad news for the Australian boy facing charges of possessing illegal drug in Bali. Indonesian prosecutors said he will be processed at the island's notorious Kerekoban Jail, where fellow Australians are also serving time.

A man who tried to abduct a 16-year-old girl in Mount Claremont is being hunted by the police, ABC News reports. The teenage girl was jogging along Stephenson Avenue near Challenge Stadium just after 6:00 pm Sunday night when a man suddenly emerged from the bushes and grabbed her from behind.

The Tank Cave in Southern Australia claimed the life of another diver after police recovered Sunday the body of a 40-year-old man in a portion of the dark and labyrinthine underwater cave.

Versions of the "Occupy Wall Street" protest in New York were staged in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, the Philippines, Spain, Switzerland and Taiwan over the weekend with similar protesters in Sydney and Melbourne demonstrating in Martin Place and City Square.

The American hacker who illegally accessed email messages of Hollywood celebrities apologised to his victims, who included Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis and Christina Aguilera.

A 6.8 magnitude earthquake rocked Bali, Indonesia Thursday and the 14-year-old Australian boy detained at the police headquarters in Denpasar, the island's capital, was unhurt.

Police in California arrested Wednesday a suspect wearing body armor and possessing several weapons after six people were shot dead inside a hair salon in Seal Beach.

The New Lambton teenager who cut a cat's paw and buried it in the backyard of a Hamilton South home last month appeared at the Newcastle Local Court on Tuesday for his trial.

American prosecutors charged two Iranians on Tuesday for plotting to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. using a hit squad from Mexico's drug cartel.

Authorities and the family of a 64-year-old Mosman Park man who went missing while swimming at Cottesloe Beach on Monday feared he was attacked by a great white pointer based on the tear on his bathers found by police divers.

Russian authorities are helping track down the mastermind of a uranium and plutonium smuggling syndicate that tried to sell the fissile material to a North African country for possible use in a "dirty bomb."

A 21-year-old New Zealand man, Kane Tupuolamoui, gets 13 years in prison for his "colossal" bashing of an Irish man in Sydney three years ago. The judge considered Tupuolamoui's guilty plea but stressed that he had fled to Darwin after the bashing.

The "Occupy Wall Street" protest in New York continued on Tuesday even as similar demonstrations were held in Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston and other major cities in the U.S.

Following his findings that Facebook are able to track users after they log out of the social network, Australian technology blogger Nik Cubrilovic, in cooperation with 10 public interest groups, has sued the firm. The Commission's decision is expected to send a statement to both the social network and its users.

A 16-year-old girl sued her parents in a bid to escape an arranged marriage. Court orders were made just two weeks before the planned wedding in the Middle East in April, but details of the case have been revealed in a judgment published only this week.

A convicted armed thief has robbed a bank for a second time, slipping past the security assigned to him at the hospital.

China's security officials headed by Public Security Minister Meng Jianzhu have visited Islamabad on Tuesday to pursue Pakistan's cooperation in seizing Chinese Muslim extremists who may be seeking refuge in the Muslim territory, reports said.

As South Korea gears up for economic advancement, the South Korean government seems to be overlooking a domestic issue-the protection and welfare of the elderly.

Thousands of farmland owners staged a massive riot against the authorities in Guangdong province last week in protest for forcibly selling the farmers' lands for a commercial complex, New York Times reported.

Motivated to put an end to incessant speculations about Dalai Lama's reincarnation, the Tibetan's supreme spiritual leader, 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, finally issued a declaration on Saturday clarifying that only he has the legitimate authority to decide how and where his reincarnation shall take place.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will allow women to vote and run in the next election. Human Rights Watch says the reforms are significant, but such promises have been made before, and now women still have to wait four years for the announced reforms to take effect.

A New Zealand ex-couple faces animal cruelty charges after police found 38 frozen cat bodies in a man's home. The couple pledged not guilty, saying they are cat lovers.