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Thousands of farmland owners staged a massive riot against the authorities in Guangdong province last week in protest for forcibly selling the farmers' lands for a commercial complex, New York Times reported.

Motivated to put an end to incessant speculations about Dalai Lama's reincarnation, the Tibetan's supreme spiritual leader, 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, finally issued a declaration on Saturday clarifying that only he has the legitimate authority to decide how and where his reincarnation shall take place.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will allow women to vote and run in the next election. Human Rights Watch says the reforms are significant, but such promises have been made before, and now women still have to wait four years for the announced reforms to take effect.

An unidentified 19-year-old boy was shot in his own home by policemen who responded to a call at about 1 a.m. that three prowlers had broken in at a house in Holmes Street, Colyton, Sydney.

A New Zealand ex-couple faces animal cruelty charges after police found 38 frozen cat bodies in a man's home. The couple pledged not guilty, saying they are cat lovers.

Is there really finality in death? Two days after Troy Davis was executed via lethal injection close to midnight on Wednesday, the controversy surrounding his death still goes on. Can death really give both defendant and accused and all concerned parties the closure they need? Hardly it seems.

After the devastation left by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan,part of the Japan's rehabilitation efforts is to build fire-resistant homes in local communities especially in crowded districts.

Chinese authorities arrested Li Hao, a former civil servant of the Technological Supervision Bureau, for kidnapping six women and confining them in an old basement, where they were forced to become his sex slaves for two years.

South Korea and Washington stand firm on their stance on North Korea's denuclearization process, reiterating that North Korea should first comply with a preemptive measure demanded by South Korea and the United States before the communist country can enjoy economic assistance again.

US ambassador to the Philippines Harry Thomas claims 40% of foreign men visiting the Philippines are sex tourists, which actually dismayed Philippine tourism officials.

The Strategic Review of the Student Visa Program, conducted by former Olympics Minister Michael Knight on behalf of the Commonwealth Government was released Thursday by Ministers Evans, drawing mixed reactions.

The US state of Georgia executed Troy Davis on Wednesday despite high opposition and an international outcry due to considerable doubts about his guilt over the 1991 murder conviction.

A principal of Lindisfarne Anglican Grammar School, in Tweed Heads has used his school newsletter to lash out against global social networking sites, in particular Facebook.

Eric Schmidt, Google Inc.'s CEO, stood up to U.S senators Wednesday to defend his company against allegations that it skews search results in favor of its own online services.

The convicted killer of James Byrd Jr., a Black Texas man dragged to death in 1998, was executed by lethal injection Wednesday at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.

A suspected grenade exploded early Wednesday inside an Amsterdam courthouse shattering its windows, but no one was reported hurt.

Federal prosecutors said on Tuesday that one of the biggest online poker sites, Full Tilt Poker, was taking in millions of dollars in bets, and was claimed to be misusing the players' money.

A 54-year-old homeowner in Sydney stabbed on death on Wednesday afternoon a 30-year-old intruder armed with a stun gun.

A trial started in Italy on Tuesday for seven scientists charged with manslaughter for apparently predicting that no major earthquake will hit L'Aquila one week after the deadly temblor struck the city in 2009.

A Perth martial artist who had killed his wife by a single punch in the head, then left her body to rot in a bedroom, has been sentenced by the WA Supreme Court today to five years in jail. The martial artist was reportedly drunk when he learned that his then estranged wife was having an affair with the best man from their wedding.

What initially looked as a chance to enhance her martial arts skill turned into a personal tragedy for New Zealander Mary Elizabeth Jones, who was lured via Facebook to travel to the Philippines where she was robbed and sexually abused.

Time and again we have always been told - don't drive when drunk.Drunk driving, in this case, boat driving, took the life of an 18-year-old young man Monday afternoon after he was caught in the propellers of a hired boat in Sydney Harbour.

An intoxicated epileptic driver crashed into a man causing his death in November. The court that heard the case merely asked the driver to pay a fine of $500 and advised to stay away from driving for five months.

There is a rising rate of Australian children abusing their elderly parents financially, the Herald Sun reports.

Julia Gillard will open a democratic debate at the Labor Party's National Conference in December.

An ex-Samsung manager has admitted that he leaked early information about the iPad to representatives from an "expert network" firm and a hedge fund

Australian Customs and Police announced on Friday the seizure 270 kilogrammes of cocaine with an estimated value of $200 million. The items were found hidden inside a shipment of lawnmowers from Brazil.

Australians who are neither male nor female can categorize their gender as "x" in their passports as the government has made the option official in the document.

Crimes committed by adolescents are alarmingly increasing since 2006.