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Australian affordable tablet computer manufacturer Kogan may have given in to pressure from Apple not to sell Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1, but two retailers are resisting Apple.

A British fugitive found living in Sydney under an alias has claimed that he is innocent of the charge that he faked his death to get a $2 million in life insurance and has dared the U.K. police to arrest him in Australia.

Gas leaked from a ruptured pipe in a section of Bathurst's central business district on Tuesday and firefighters closed the area and evacuated people.

Tamils in Australia were frustrated after Attorney-General Robert McClelland disallowed war crimes charges against visiting Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to proceed citing his diplomatic immunity.

A Sydney man, who is suspected to have raped three male students in Indonesia, has been surrendered to Indonesian authorities last week. The Indonesian government has requested for his extradition since 2008, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

Apple is insistent on closing all doors for rival Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 to enter Australia - even through online retailers.

WikiLeaks no longer has money to operate and may shut down by December if cash donations does not come in soon, its founder Julian Assange announced in a press conference in London on Monday.

The Morisset Park boy charged with drug possession in Bali will not be detained at the harsh Kerobokan prison as Indonesia's law and human rights minister decided it was unfit for him.

Western Australia's fisheries officers are hunting a rogue shark in Rottnest Island after an American tourist was mauled to death by one on Saturday.

A vacant house in Holden Hill in northeastern Adelaide blew up around 2:15 a.m. Sunday shattering windows of nearby homes.

Sixty-four U.S. Navy men, including 49 assigned aboard the aircraft carrier that buried al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden at sea, have been expelled for using, possessing or selling the designer drug called "spice" that mimics the effects of marijuana.

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.