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Police have evidence to charge two Bendigo brothers who set up a Facebook page that rates teen's sexual encounters.

A female employee of tech giant IBM has filed a $1.1 million sexual harassment lawsuit against her former supervisor and IBM. Among the forms of harassment which Susan Spiten experienced from her ex-manager include being told to expose more of her breast to boost sales.

Pumping operations are set to resume Thursday on the ill-fated MV Rena as weather gets better in Bay of Plenty, calming the waters except for light breezes and mild swells. An exclusion zone around the ship is also being reviewed today by Tauranga's harbour master, as Maritime New Zealand salvage unit manager Bruce Anderson plans the oil pumping process from MV Rena to the bunker barge Awanuia.

The Dubbo Local Court magistrate has refused bail to a Surfers Paradise man caught with $64,000 worth of ecstasy pills in his car.

Microchip analyst Chipworks has confirmed that the A5 processor of the iPhone 4S is made by Samsung, Apple Inc.'s supplier-turned-legal adversary.

After some legal setbacks, Samsung Electronics finally won some of its legal battles against Apple. The victory was handed by U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh who dismissed on Tuesday some of the antitrust claims by Apple against the South Korean firm.

While the world has gone used to seeing men get convicted over child pornography, a Swedish court has convicted 23 women over the despicable crime this time, proving that child abuse and sexual offenses are not exclusive to men, although the ring leader of these women is a man.

The bus drivers union agreed on Tuesday night to an Industrial Relations Commission order to lift a ban on gas-powered buses in Sydney. The explosion of a gas-powered bus prompted public bus drivers to raise their protest by refusing to get on the road, resulting in huge inconvenience among Sydney passengers at peak hour Tuesday.

A suspected explosion in a gas-powered bus prompted public bus drivers to park their vehicles instead of getting on the road, creating commotion among Sydney passengers at peak hour. Fearing the risk of another explosion, drivers are refusing to drive 700 gas-powered buses after learning about a video footage of a bus in fire reportedly after an explosion.

A teenager who murdered a 15-year-old boy was detained for life after a judge ruled that he committed "a particularly heinous crime," and reoffending is a real danger if he comes out of jail. The boy, who cannot be named under Queensland law, killed a high school student in a random knife attack at a shopping plaza.

A teenager who murdered a 15-year-old boy was detained for life after a judge ruled that he committed "a particularly heinous crime," and re-offending is a real danger if he comes out of jail.

Anti-rape campaigners are raising a howl over Facebook's refusal to remove pages that glorify and make fun of rape and violence against women.

Bad news for the Australian boy facing charges of possessing illegal drug in Bali. Indonesian prosecutors said he will be processed at the island's notorious Kerekoban Jail, where fellow Australians are also serving time.

A man who tried to abduct a 16-year-old girl in Mount Claremont is being hunted by the police, ABC News reports. The teenage girl was jogging along Stephenson Avenue near Challenge Stadium just after 6:00 pm Sunday night when a man suddenly emerged from the bushes and grabbed her from behind.

Federal Court Justice Annabelle Bennett may have temporarily banned Samsung Electronics from launching its Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia, but Aussies have found a way to go around the ban. They ordered the gadget online.

The Tank Cave in Southern Australia claimed the life of another diver after police recovered Sunday the body of a 40-year-old man in a portion of the dark and labyrinthine underwater cave.

Versions of the "Occupy Wall Street" protest in New York were staged in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, the Philippines, Spain, Switzerland and Taiwan over the weekend with similar protesters in Sydney and Melbourne demonstrating in Martin Place and City Square.

iPad 2-manufacturer Apple only won half of the battle with Samsung Electronics when it was granted by Federal Court Justice Annabelle Bennett on Thursday a temporary injunction that stops the South Korean firm from launching the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia.

The American hacker who illegally accessed email messages of Hollywood celebrities apologised to his victims, who included Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis and Christina Aguilera.

A 6.8 magnitude earthquake rocked Bali, Indonesia Thursday and the 14-year-old Australian boy detained at the police headquarters in Denpasar, the island's capital, was unhurt.

Police in California arrested Wednesday a suspect wearing body armor and possessing several weapons after six people were shot dead inside a hair salon in Seal Beach.

U.S. President Barack Obama has not given up the fight to create 1.9 million more jobs in the country despite the Republican block of his $447-billion jobs bill in the Senate on Tuesday night.

The New Lambton teenager who cut a cat's paw and buried it in the backyard of a Hamilton South home last month appeared at the Newcastle Local Court on Tuesday for his trial.

American prosecutors charged two Iranians on Tuesday for plotting to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. using a hit squad from Mexico's drug cartel.

Authorities and the family of a 64-year-old Mosman Park man who went missing while swimming at Cottesloe Beach on Monday feared he was attacked by a great white pointer based on the tear on his bathers found by police divers.

Adelaide-based filmmaker Cyan Films and Family First MLC are offering assistance to the family of an Iranian actress sentenced to jail and lashing in Iran for doing an Australian movie illegally and inappropriately.

Australia is joining the global trend toward recognizing same-sex marriages. Outgoing South Australian Premier Mike Rann is the latest senior public official to back the proposal to legalise gay and lesbian unions.

While outpourings of sympathy for Steve Jobs's family continue, not everyone is sad of the demise of the technology innovator who died on Wednesday at age 56.

Russian authorities are helping track down the mastermind of a uranium and plutonium smuggling syndicate that tried to sell the fissile material to a North African country for possible use in a "dirty bomb."