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Australian consumers are forewarned of a fake telephone survey with the aim of defrauding them using their own bank accounts and other information.

A new legislation passed into Parliament focuses on supporting Australians with disability in terms of finding work. This new legislation entitled The Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Disability Support Pension Participation Reforms) Bill 2012 introduces new participation requirements for Disability Support Pension (DSP) recipients who are capable to be employed. The bill also highlighted a much flexible law that allows DSP recipients to work for at least 30 hours a week and stil...

A 50-year-old man was sent to trial at the Brisbane's Supreme Court after helping his 76-year-old friend commit suicide. Merin Nielson, received a guilty verdict for the crime..

A new book launched by Deakin academics discussed the possible alternative solutions regarding the growing issue about migration in Australia. The solutions discussed in the book was highlighted as a "better option" as opposed to the ones presented last month by Teresa Gambaro, the spokeswoman for Coalition multicultural affairs

The Philippines is once again engrossed in an unfolding political drama that could make or break President Benigno S. Aquino III’s reform agenda.

Asia and Australia's richest woman, Gina Rinehart, has threatened to halt payment of the ransom insurance for her three estranged children, News.com.au reports.

Media attention to Australia's richest woman, Gina Rinehart, has shifted back to her family feud from her recent foray into Fairfax Media.

The New Zealand government told UNICEF that it will continue to educate ethnic communities to prevent forced marriages involving young women and will not make change to the country's marriage legislation.

An Iranian national who earned a permanent resident status in Canada has been sentenced to die in Iran for “spreading corruption.”

British actor Jude Law is among the individuals who received just compensation from the media empire of Rupert Murdoch's News Group as part of the settlement in the case involving email and phone hacking instigated by the editors and reporters of the now-defunct News of the World, lawyers and reports have confirmed.

Health authorities in Auckland have proposed a smoking ban in all public outdoor areas in the city saying the move will prevent the spread of the ill effects of second hand smoke, as well as the influence among children who are likely to pick up the habit.

The South Australian Supreme Court overturned on Tuesday a ministerial approval given to Argonaut Resources (ASX: ARE) to drill for copper, gold and iron-oxide in parts of Lake Torrens and Andamooka Island.

A Melbourne schoolgirl who was about to turn 15 years old next week had killed herself over intolerable bullying at school and online social networks. Sheniz Erkan, a Taylors Lakes Secondary College student, took her life on Monday after having suffered from schoolyard and cyberspace bullies. Her funeral is scheduled today.

Police in Germany are investigating a grade school teacher at a private school in the northern city of Lubeck for teaching his young students how to make pipe bombs and detonating it in front of them to demonstrate its force.

Hundreds of thousands of Catholics joined the feast and annual procession for a black statue of Jesus Christ in central Manila on Monday despite an alleged plot by Muslim terrorists to explode a bomb along the route of the devotees.

Police has arrested the mental patient who skipped arrest last Friday over a crime report that arrived an hour late. Convicted criminal Trent Jennings, 26, who has been held in a psychiatric facility since 2005 after he stabbed a man to death while on drugs, tied up a man and stole his car late last week.

A 52-year-old from Torrensville was arrested Tuesday night for possessing a taser disguised as a mobile phone.

The police had him over traffic violation, but he was let go. A day later, someone came forward accusing him of sexual assault and car theft.

An Iraq War veteran who shot dead a Mount Rainier park ranger on New Year's Day was found frozen to death on Monday ending a 200-men search that included a SWAT team, K-9s and helicopters.

One of three former followers of the doomsday cult that caused the sarin gas attacks in Tokyo's subway trains and stations in 1995 has surrendered to police after 17 years on the run to escape prosecution from kidnapping and murder of another member's brother.

Victoria and NSW police have arrested a father and his son suspected of stealing $6.5 million worth of cash and valuables from a safety deposit box centre and from affluent homes in Melbourne's northeastern suburbs.

Police in Afghanistan have rescued a 15-year-old girl, who had been beaten, starved and locked up in a toilet for five months by her in-laws in the northeastern Baghlan province.

An Egyptian court ordered Tuesday the military to stop conducting virginity tests on detained women protesters.

Italy's Antitrust Authority fined three Apple companies $1.18 million (900,000 euros) for misleading local consumers on warranty terms and customer assistance.

China is yet to be over its deadly tainted milk scandal because its largest dairy producer Mengniu has confiscated and removed milk cartons from local market shelves baring its label found with toxic substances.

Christmas 2011 came big for an Adelaide woman following the disappointment last year when casino officials refused to honour her slot machine win, denying her the $100,000 jackpot.

Motorola recently experienced victory as the company won against Apple regarding a patent case filed in Germany.

Victoria's Supreme Court sentenced Thursday a 17-year-old teenager to 13 years for stabbing dead an Indian student at a park in January 2010.

Finnish authorities on Wednesday detained a British-flagged ship and its 30 all-Ukrainian crews at the Port of Kotka on suspicion of illegally transporting 69 Patriot missiles and 160 tons of explosives.