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Peruvian President Ollanta Humala has placed four northern highland provinces under a state of emergency to stop violent protests against a U.S. mining firm that injured dozens of people and forced an airport to shut down.

Former world cycling champion Gary Neiwand has pleaded guilty to flashing before two women but will remain temporarily free on an extended bail to continue his counseling treatment.

A 53-year-old Australian married to a Filipino was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in the southern Philippine province of Zamboanga Sibugay on Monday evening.

It pays to listen to the skeptics: When something seems too good to be true, it probably isn’t. Simon Finnigan, an unlicensed financial planner and Ponzi operator in New South Wales, has pleaded guilty to charges of defrauding $1.96 million from investors between 2001 and 2007.

The owner of the Rivers Australia chain will appear in court on Wednesday in connection with the charges of indecent assault filed against him by a former employee.

Police across Australia charged hundreds of people with various offenses related to drinking and drunkenness from Friday night to Saturday morning.

A federal court judge in San Jose, California has ruled against Apple's petition to temporarily ban the sales of Samsung smartphones and tablets in the U.S. allowing the Korean products in market shelves until the start of the patent infringement trial on July 30, 2012.

The teenager from Morisset Park, New South Wales tried in Bali, Indonesia for marijuana possession returns home Monday after serving two months in detention.

A law inspired by the killing of Australian-born schoolgirl Zarah Clare Baker was passed Thursday in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The law imposes stiffer punishment for anyone disposing body secretly to conceal death.

A naval officer accused of physical abusing a female subordinate informed a military court on Wednesday that his actions were justified by intent to instill discipline and were executed with full consent of the subject sailor.

A federal court has lifted the sales ban on Samsung's Galaxy tablet but the legal battle is not yet over as Apple is taking the case to the High Court.

Two doctors from Locum were killed when their small plane crashed near Queensland's Mundubbera Airport at 7:30 a.m. on Thursday.

Airports in the U.K. were spared from gridlock and pandemonium on Wednesday when two million workers went on strike to protest the increase in retirement age.

Some 45,000 residents of the German city of Koblenz will temporarily be evacuated on Sunday to be at a safe distance from an unexploded World War II British bomb that will be detonated by the army and police bomb disposal teams.

Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics are engaged in cutthroat competition and are embroiled in an all-out-war in courtrooms across a dozen countries. Apple has sought a ban of the Samsung Galaxy S 2 and Galaxy Tab devices on grounds that they are imitating Apple devices. Samsung has countered with lawsuits seeking the ban of the iPhone 4S on claims that the latest iPhone is infringing on Samsung's wireless patents.

Korea's Samsung had won the first legal battle against Apple Inc. as an Australian court overturns the decision disallowing the sale of the Galaxy tablet in the country on Wednesday.

A one-year-old boy is in critical condition while seven others were injured Tuesday when gunfire erupted during the filming of a rap music video in Oakland, California.

The 14-year-old boy from Sydney found guilty of marijuana possession in Bali, Indonesia will be home before Christmas as his two-month sentence handed on Friday will cover the time he spent in detention in Denpasar while his trial went on.

The United Nations has accused the Syrian military of torturing, raping and killing hundreds of civilians, including children and women, as part of its crackdown on protesters demanding a new government.

A two-minute video to promote gay marriage produced by Australian lobby group GetUp has gone viral in YouTube. Since it was posted on the video sharing site on Sunday, the video had almost 1.9 million views as of Tuesday noon.

Education authorities and parents of non-Norwegian students in Norway were shocked to learn that a high school in Oslo was segregating ethnic and white students to prevent Norwegian students from transferring to other schools.

Lawyers of Sirhan Sirhan, the convicted killer of former senator Robert F. Kennedy, are seeking his release and a new trial claiming he did not shoot the victim.

Four people were killed and hundreds of cars fell into a river Sunday after a bridge in Borneo collapsed.

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.

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.

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.