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Australians seeking redress from German drugmaker Grunenthal will have their day in court in Australia as Victoria's Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the class suit should be heard locally.

Police in Bali has detained an Australian involved in the brawl at a disco near Kuta Beach that wounded two other Australians last week, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said on Monday.

Egypt lost priceless historical documents and maps dating back more than 200 years ago when a library housing the rare collections was burned during violent clashes between protesters and police in central Cairo on Saturday.

Emerging rap star Slim Dunkin died at hospital in Atlanta, Georgia after he was shot in the chest on Friday afternoon.

A boat trying to sneak in 250 immigrants from the Middle East to Australia capsized in rough seas off East Java, Indonesia on Saturday. Some 185 passengers went missing while 15 drowned.

Two Australians figured in a brawl inside a disco near Bali's Kuta Beach on Friday with one getting slashed with a knife in the chest and the other stabbed in the stomach.

You would think such a scene would happen only in medieval fiction, but early this week, a woman convicted of practicing "witchcraft and sorcery" was beheaded in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Practicing "witchcraft and sorcery" is a capital offense in Saudi Arabia.

Some 30,000 non-Arab Libyans plan to return next week to their town, which they abandoned due to reprisal attacks by anti-Gaddafi militias.

A woman who stole a pistol from her gun club to shoot her father was found not guilty of his murder on grounds of mental illness.

She was walking her dog through a Wollongong Park about 5.30pm Thursday when the teenage girl was sexually assaulted at knife point by a teenage boy.

A firm based in Seattle specializing in caller identification technology has sued Apple Inc. for patent infringement alleging that the latter is illegally using its inventions on iPhones.

Victoria police investigating the alleged hacking of the Labor Party's database of supporters in November 2010 searched the computers of three reporters from "The Age" inside the newspaper's office instead of confiscating the machines on Thursday.

Police has detained and charged Chicago Bears player Sam Hurd after he accepted one kilo of packaged cocaine from an undercover federal agent posing as a drug supplier who sold it to him.

Union representatives of the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) from Australia and New Zealand were not allowed by the Fiji government to enter the island on Wednesday. The three-day mission was to investigate alleged violation of human and labour rights by the Bainimarama military regime.

An Australian military court sent an erring naval officer to jail after finding him guilty of exercising undue authority over a female sailor he subjected to a humiliating discipline routine.

A backpack with the word "Bang" found inside a Los Angeles subway train prompted authorities to close the train station for more than two hours on Tuesday night.

Authorities investigating the murder of Hayden Miles on Tuesday recovered human remains from a crime scene at Ruru Lawn Cemetery in Christchurch, where they have spent the past few days in search for the teen’s body.

Wellington journalist Phillip Cottrell who died from severe bashing was attacked by a bully, according to a criminal expert.

Papua New Guinea was engulfed in a political turmoil on Monday when its Supreme Court ordered the reinstatement of Sir Michael Somare as the prime minister, a post that parliament bestowed earlier to Peter O'Neill. But O'Neill refuses to turn over his post, so the country technically has two leaders.

The nanny of Chloe Murphy, the baby who died mysteriously, could face charges over the tragedy. Baby Chloe died a year ago, just seven weeks before her first birthday. Detectives waited for final medical reports before moving on with the case.

A 46-year-old Sydney teacher has been accused by three 11-year-old girls of indecent behavior towards them. The teacher has been charged with indecent assault and removed from a primary school in Sydney's east in November after allegations were brought to the attention of authorities, as he had allegedly inappropriately touched an 11-year-old student.

NSW and Queensland police busted separate drug rings on Tuesday morning arresting eight people and seizing heroin, cocaine and cannabis from raided homes.

A Rutherglen man's effort to find the remains of his brother under a disused mine near Avoca got a boost from the Victoria government, which offered to reimburse up to $25,000 in cost to the digging.

A jobless man angry for not receiving unemployment benefits threw his shoes at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while he was speaking at a ceremony in the city of Sari, Mazandaran Province on Monday. The shoes missed the president, who dodged it, and hit the banner behind him instead.

Bomb disposal experts defused a letter bomb received by the Greek embassy in Paris, France on Monday.

A 26-year-old man, who was distraught because his girlfriend broke up their four-year relationship, shot at passing cars in a Hollywood intersection before being gunned down by police on Friday morning.

An American teenager kidnapped in southern Philippines five months ago escaped from his captors and is now in the custody of the U.S. Embassy in Manila, local officials announced on Sunday.

Pakistani officials have announced that they are releasing the three wives and several children of slain al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

A search team from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority found Thursday the wreckage of a Cessna plane missing since Wednesday and said its lone pilot was dead.