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Floods triggered by heavy rains have isolated two towns in northern New South Wales and swept away a boy leading to his death.

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.

An opposition lawmaker threw a tear gas inside the South Korea's parliament Tuesday in protest to a plenary session to ratify a controversial bill establishing a free trade agreement (FTA) with the U.S.

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.

Global alternative investment management firm MR Capital Management Ltd. is focusing its funds to the Asian economies in a major shift of its traditional portfolio because of the improved industrial activities in Asia and the obvious growth slowdown in developed countries of the west.

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.

Forces of Libya's interim ruler, the National Transition Council, are searching Terhouna city, 90 kilometres southeast of Tripoli, for the youngest son of former leader Moammar Gadhafi and head of an elite brigade from the fallen regime.

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

The 21-day period for Qantas management and unions to agree on new contracts lapsed on Monday with no negotiation extension made by the parties, so the dispute will now have to be settled by the Fair Works Australia (FWA).

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.

The British and U.S. governments announced Monday a ban on credit and financial transactions with Iran's banks and central bank as punishment for building nuclear weapons. Canada's government is also expected to impose the same sanctions.

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.

Authorities counted six people killed by tornadoes that struck Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina on Wednesday.

Maintenance workers have found a live carpet shark inside the seawater intake tank of the Southern Seawater Desalination Plant in Binningup, according to Water Corporation, operator of the plant.

Some 4,000 bus drivers of the NSW State Transit (NST) will get a 3.25 percent pay increase per year in the next three years.

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.

Dozens of anti-government protesters stormed Kuwait's parliament as hundreds of activists protested outside demanding the resignation of the prime minister and dissolution of the legislature on Wednesday.

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.

France has protested an Israeli airstrike on Gaza that killed one Palestinian policeman and hurt the French consul, his daughter and pregnant wife, who suffered a miscarriage as a result.

An alleged attempt by the Thai government to bring back ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra from exile in Dubai through a royal amnesty has been exposed disgusting the opposition and raising the spectre of another political crisis.

China said its territorial dispute with neighbors should not be discussed in the East Asia Summit (EAS) in Bali, Indonesia on Saturday.

The buildup of U.S. Marines permanently stationed in Australia will start next year with the arrival of 250 soldiers rising to 2,500 by 2017, U.S. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Julia Gillard jointly announced Wednesday night.

A national park and World Heritage Site in eastern Congo is offering a tour of an erupting volcano to watch it shoot lava 300 metres into the air.

India successfully test-fired an upgraded version of its long-range, nuclear-capable missile in the Bay of Bengal on Tuesday.

U.S. President Barack Obama is due to arrive in Canberra mid-afternoon Wednesday for a day-and-a-half visit that aims to renew the world superpower's economic and military influence in the Asia-Pacific region.