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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.

Police in NSW found and seized more than 300 kilos of a chemical used in making "ice" hidden in frames of shipping containers.

Fugitive Malcolm Naden has broken into a home in Barrington Tops, NSW for the second time while another home south in Niangala was also burglarised, but police are still investigating if he was responsible.

An Australian journalist, three Belarusian journalists and three Ukrainian protesters have been released by KGB officers, who arrested them during a topless protest against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in front of the former Soviet spy agency's headquarters in Minsk.

Apple iPhone 4S users who thought they could get away from the total ban against electronic devices while driving by using Siri will still be held accountable if federal regulators will have their way.

The International Trade Commission issued a preliminary ruling that found Motorola Mobility Holdings of infringing on one of the seven patents held by Microsoft Corp.

A New Zealand man was arrested by Interpol officers after he was identified as the man who is wanted on multiple counts of theft and money laundering after allegedly fleeing to China.

Indonesian rescuers recovered 40 bloated and decomposing bodies in waters off eastern Java on Wednesday. The rescuers also saw other floating bodies that likely belong to the 200 missing passengers of a migrant boat that overturned on Saturday while sailing to Australia's Christmas Island.

Google Inc. has successfully patented its futuristic driverless car technology that allows a human driver to pass the wheel to the self-driving car.

Lieutenant Commander John Alan Jones, a naval officer found guilty by a military court martial of spanking a young female sailor, is appealing his conviction.

A small plane with five people aboard, including two children, has crashed in central Texas. There were no survivors.

Hundreds of demonstrators faced off with police in riot gears in the streets of Aktau in western Kazakhstan on Monday, the fourth day of violent protest movements in the region that already killed 14 people and wounded scores in two other cities.

Some 30,000 women will have to undergo surgery to remove breast implants suspected of causing cancer on eight women, according to France's health ministry.

A Libyan rebel commander who fought to oust Col. Moammar Gaddafi is suing the British government for its complicity in his torture by American and Libyan military interrogators in 2004.

A group of Indian activists calling for a law prosecuting corrupt government officials, including the prime minister and judges, has received a threat that their supporters will be pricked with needles tainted with HIV.

Papua New Guinea Governor-General Michael Ogio on Monday recognised Peter O'Neill as the prime minister saying he erred in reinstating Sir Michael Somare in that post earlier.

Despite her last-minute effort, billionaire Gina Rinehart lost her bid to keep secret the family's legal battle over its $10-billion wealth.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ordered a California man to stop donating sperm for free via his website after learning that he already fathered 14 children. But Trent Arsenault, 36, of Fremont continues to give his sperm until the court tells him to stop doing so.

Police in Glenn Innes have found 25 dead ponies dumped near a cliff in northern NSW and is asking the public for information about a truck that may have been used to bring the animals there.

Fifteen survivors of an overloaded migrant boat that sank off eastern Java on Saturday were found in two separate islands on Monday.

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.