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Ned Kelly will finally get his last wish, burial on consecrated ground, 131 years after his execution.

Nov 09, 2011

An escort agency selling the virginity of a 19-year-old Chinese student of Sydney University has outraged the Australian Family Association (AFA) and the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL).

Nov 09, 2011

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, the first airliner made mainly from carbon composite materials, suffered its first trouble on Monday when one used by a Japanese airline failed to release its landing gear and the pilot had to manually deploy it.

Nov 08, 2011

A security aide of slain Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi detained in Misrata has told CNN and BBC that the longest-serving leader of Africa was forced to scavenge for food and hide in abandoned homes in his hometown Sirte during his last days.

Nov 08, 2011

In Kanchenjunga, the world's third highest peak, so-called worshipers could no longer conduct an 800-year-old ritual honoring the mountain they consider sacred because the last and only priest who knows the rite had died.

Nov 08, 2011

The two cases of tularemia infection in Tasmania confirmed by local health officials last week were the first appearance of the disease in the southern hemisphere.

Nov 08, 2011

A jury has found a bar manager guilty of murdering his multi-millionaire boss in his home and dumping his body somewhere.

Nov 08, 2011

Small planes and army helicopters on Sunday began rescuing tourists stranded since Tuesday in the town of Lukla in northeastern Nepal due to bad weather.

Nov 07, 2011

Anonymous hackers reportedly retaliating from a cyber attack on the DAX, Germany's blue chip stock index, brought down a French rugby club's fan site instead because the latter's URL contained the word "dax."

Nov 07, 2011

Floodwater in Bangkok has crossed the Lat Phrao intersection on the northern edge of the city center and is closing in on bus terminals, subway stations and Skytrain stations on Sunday, according to reports.

Nov 07, 2011

Qantas passengers stranded last week by the grounding of the airline's fleet can get a free return economy flight to any destination within Australia, or a trans-Tasman flight to New Zealand and back.

Nov 07, 2011

The U.S. special forces members who killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in his Pakistan hideout on May 1 have revealed how they killed the 9/11 mastermind in a book.

Nov 07, 2011

A TV deal between Nine Network and the parents of the 14-year-old boy on trial in Bali, Indonesia for buying marijuana was cancelled on Sunday.

Nov 07, 2011

Secret Defense documents of Australia's most senior commander in the Middle East, Major-General John Cantwell, were contained in a USB drive that was stolen from his aide's checked in bag at Kuwait's airport on February 28, according to a report on the investigation of the incident.

Nov 04, 2011

China achieved another milestone in its space program with the successful docking of its two spacecrafts on Thursday. The Shenzhou-8 and space lab module Tiangong-1 made the historic docking at 1:36 a.m. local time, according to Wu Ping, spokeswoman for the country's manned space program.

Nov 04, 2011

A severely obese American woman cut nearly one-third of her weight a year after undergoing an operation that removed 85 percent of her stomach.

Nov 04, 2011

Myanmar airlifted Thursday eight tons of emergency relief goods to Cambodia, which is suffering the same flood miseries for months as neighboring Thailand.

Nov 04, 2011

A Briton revealed that Google has finally removed a fake online review of his business on Google's Places that mentioned him as a pedophile after his request to delete it have been ignored for 18 months. Unfortunately, the damage had been done.

Nov 04, 2011

Qantas said it will compensate all reasonable losses of passengers stranded during the two-day grounding of its planes over the weekend on top of giving refunds and re-booking affected customers.

Nov 04, 2011

The Arab League announced Wednesday that Syria has agreed to its proposal to defuse the political unrest in the country during a meeting of the group's ministers in Cairo, Egypt.

Nov 03, 2011

An animal welfare group and philanthropic organization are showing live online the migration of polar bears in Canada only previously seen by locals, tourists and scientists.

Nov 03, 2011

Cancer-stricken football legend Jim Stynes is trying a drug that destroys only cancer cells and not healthy cells, the first person in Australia to do so.

Nov 03, 2011

Google Maps will start charging heavy users starting January 2012.

Nov 03, 2011

The Australian legal advisor of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called on the Federal Government to help him get a fair trial in Sweden following the British High Court's decision to extradite him to the Scandinavian country to face rape charges.

Nov 03, 2011

Supermarket chain giant Woolworths will open 39 new stores in Australia and New Zealand in fiscal 2012 and create 10,000 new jobs, the company announced Tuesday.

Nov 03, 2011

Qantas hopes to appease angry customers and lure them back to its fold with lower domestic and international fares, double frequent flyer points and other special deals.

Nov 02, 2011

A wooden boat packed with 70 suspected asylum seekers capsized off the coast of West Java in Indonesia on Tuesday drowning 17 people.

Nov 02, 2011

The U.K.'s High Court will rule on Wednesday whether or not to extradite controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to Sweden so he could be questioned by police about two women's allegations that he raped them.

Nov 02, 2011

Google's Street View will not be showing just streets and roads but the inside of selected business establishments as well.

Nov 02, 2011