Sharon Olalia

United States President Barack Obama released his detailed birth certificate as he slammed lingering rumors that he was not American born as distressing “silliness”.

Two operators of the famed 7-Eleven stores were fined $150,000 for exploiting international workers from Zimbabwe and India.

South Australia's manufacturing industry has recorded negative growth in annual average employment between 2000-01 and 2009-10, according to official national figures.

An unearthed body of a miner clad in uniform with in the crumpled Pike River mine gained fuming calls to “get our boys out” in New Zealand.

NBN Co has released the fibre maps for construction of the national broadband network in the next seven towns in Tasmania – Deloraine, Kingston Beach, George Town, Sorell, South Hobart, St Helens and Triabunna.

Leighton Holdings Ltd (ASX: LEI) says its Al Habtoor Leighton Group (HLG) has won two new projects in Abu Dhabi worth over AED600 million.

Days before the Sudanese beauty pageant in Melbourne, a string of aggressive brawls burst wildly in the area.

According to News Ltd, the Labor Department sought to "hide" the total loss by leading the state Treasury to produce hundreds of millions of dollars from rail grants.

Chinese officials probe on Australia's performance relating to the "asylum seekers" issue while they fall about the country's concerns on China's human rights record.

PlayStation Network users were aghast that their personal information may have been acquired by "external forces".

The March 2011 quarter Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the housing group, increased 1.3 per cent, compared to the all groups increase of 1.6 per cent.

Savvy consumers are cashing in on deals offered by the burgeoning group-buying and daily-discount market, which has grown by 280 per cent this financial year, new data show.

Working from home has become the trend among small business owners and employees in Australia as they try to improve their ‘work/life balance’.

With less than a week before the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton at Westminster Abbey, a new Survey Sampling International (SSI) survey shows that 89 per cent of respondents around the world are aware of the upcoming nuptials. In spite of the high awareness, only 10 per cent globally say that they will "definitely watch" the ceremony.

A bunch of wild dogs savaged three-year-old girl after strolling by herself into bushes on a popular Australian tourist island.

Refuge seekers who perpetrated criminal offenses in confinement are to be denied permanent visas.

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Prime Minister Julia Gillard is set to prod China on human rights and to enhance trade with the world's second biggest economy. These are her goals as she talks with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and President Hu Jintao in Beijing on Tuesday.

While Armidale in New South Wales will become the first Australian city to enjoy the light-speed benefits of the National Broadband Network any time now, thousands of Australians in the rural areas will continue to endure worse Internet connection services through the years.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Resurgent global food prices, which posted record increases in the first two months of 2011, are again threatening to push millions of people in developing Asia into extreme poverty, says a new report from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) titled 'Global Food Price Inflation and Developing Asia'.

Harley-Davidson Australia is giving away a Harley Hospitality experience for four at the MotoGP.

An earthquake of 6.2 magnitude shook Sulawesi Island in Central Indonesia on Monday. The tremor with comparatively shallow depth was succeeded by two strong aftershocks.

A video has surfaced showing the body of an alien found dead in snow in Siberia.

Budget airline Jetstar says it will seek damages after a Sydney Airport security lapse at Terminal 2 left thousands of its passengers stranded.

A rise in the Japanese and Australian stock futures characterize both economies as U.S. housing starts to upsurge and earnings of companies beat estimates.

Treasurer Wayne Swan says investment from the revived resource sector is now gaining momentum but it is expected to produce lesser revenue than the last boom it had.

In New York, oil exchanged almost a two-day high as U.S. home construction numbers and company gross imparted a progressing economic outlook which then caused speculations about increased fuel demand.

An Air National Guard plane carrying first lady Michelle Obama was instructed to "go around" a military runway on Monday because of a cargo plane on the runway.

Sydney Airport defended its decision to rescreen passengers after a security device lost power yesterday afternoon.