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A federal court has lifted the sales ban on Samsung's Galaxy tablet but the legal battle is not yet over as Apple is taking the case to the High Court.

Two doctors from Locum were killed when their small plane crashed near Queensland's Mundubbera Airport at 7:30 a.m. on Thursday.

Airports in the U.K. were spared from gridlock and pandemonium on Wednesday when two million workers went on strike to protest the increase in retirement age.

Some 45,000 residents of the German city of Koblenz will temporarily be evacuated on Sunday to be at a safe distance from an unexploded World War II British bomb that will be detonated by the army and police bomb disposal teams.

Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics are engaged in cutthroat competition and are embroiled in an all-out-war in courtrooms across a dozen countries. Apple has sought a ban of the Samsung Galaxy S 2 and Galaxy Tab devices on grounds that they are imitating Apple devices. Samsung has countered with lawsuits seeking the ban of the iPhone 4S on claims that the latest iPhone is infringing on Samsung's wireless patents.

Korea's Samsung had won the first legal battle against Apple Inc. as an Australian court overturns the decision disallowing the sale of the Galaxy tablet in the country on Wednesday.

A one-year-old boy is in critical condition while seven others were injured Tuesday when gunfire erupted during the filming of a rap music video in Oakland, California.

The 14-year-old boy from Sydney found guilty of marijuana possession in Bali, Indonesia will be home before Christmas as his two-month sentence handed on Friday will cover the time he spent in detention in Denpasar while his trial went on.

The United Nations has accused the Syrian military of torturing, raping and killing hundreds of civilians, including children and women, as part of its crackdown on protesters demanding a new government.

A two-minute video to promote gay marriage produced by Australian lobby group GetUp has gone viral in YouTube. Since it was posted on the video sharing site on Sunday, the video had almost 1.9 million views as of Tuesday noon.

Education authorities and parents of non-Norwegian students in Norway were shocked to learn that a high school in Oslo was segregating ethnic and white students to prevent Norwegian students from transferring to other schools.

Lawyers of Sirhan Sirhan, the convicted killer of former senator Robert F. Kennedy, are seeking his release and a new trial claiming he did not shoot the victim.

Four people were killed and hundreds of cars fell into a river Sunday after a bridge in Borneo collapsed.

The Bali holiday of a NSW Central Coast teenager turned into a tragedy when he accidentally died upon touching a live wire outside a bar and grill in Kuta beach.

Three American exchange students are detained in Cairo for allegedly throwing Molotov cocktails at security forces from the roof of a university building near Tahrir Square, where thousands of protesters demanding a civilian government were clashing with riot police trying to disperse them.

One Australian woman was among seven passengers killed in a train fire in India on Tuesday. Three other Australian passengers were injured in the accident that occured 2 a.m. local time in Jharkhand state.

Queensland police are investigating a new Facebook and YouTube craze wherein local teenagers post photos of themselves nude with hats covering private parts on the Internet.

Sydney police have detained a 49-year-old man to ask him if he owns a suitcase containing $1.28 million in cash left in a bistro Tuesday.

Philip Morris Asia, owner of Philip Morris Ltd. in Australia, is challenging Australia's plain packaging law for cigarettes before an international arbitration court hoping to suspend the legislation and obtain billions of dollars in compensation for business losses from the Federal Government.

Another victim of Friday's fire at the Quaker Hills Nursing Home in Sydney died Monday night bringing the death toll to eight.

Clashes between demonstrators and police around Cairo's Tahrir Square continued for the third day on Monday raising the death toll to at least 24 and the number of injured people to 1,700.

Parliament is set to vote on the $11-billion mining tax measure this week. House leader Anthony Albanese said the vote could be as early as Wednesday as soon as the federal government secured the support of the crossbenchers.

Passengers of an Austrian airline were forced to pay $30,000 for the refueling of their flight in Vienna to get to their final destination in the U.K.

A Zimbabwean IT student has claimed that ABC and Fairfax cricket radio commentator and writer Peter Roebuck sexually assaulted him in a hotel before the former English cricketer committed suicide.

Police had arrested a suspect in a shooting incident at the White House on Friday night.

The Downing Centre Local Court has ordered the GMI Food Wholesalers and its directors to pay a fine of $236,000 for supplying Virgin Blue with inflight chicken meals tainted with the listeria bacteria that infected several passengers of the airline in 2009.

The labor dispute in the National Basketball Association (NBA) took a turn for the worse Tuesday when players decided to disband their union and sue the league because they find the team owners' last offer of 50-50 profit sharing not good.

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is again back in the headlines after figuring in another legal battle. This time against the French media, which Strauss-Kahn said through his lawyers had been very "intrusive" of his and his wife's privacy.

Four Spanish nationals are in police custody and facing charges of trafficking 300 kilos of cocaine worth $78 million.