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Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Tasmania Police arrested an alleged recidivist online child sex predator following a joint two-week covert operation. The police charged the arrested 57-year-old Hobart man with accessing child abuse material on his smartphone. Police officials were monitoring the man’s behaviour since his release from prison, in a similar case, in June 2013.

Lures of the dollar and a non-resident spouse are the same for Indians. In spite of government efforts to caution people about the pitfalls of marrying an Non-Resident Indian (NRI) through a nationwide media campaign, any opportunity to find an NRI groom or bride is too hard, for any girl or boy in the country, to resist. Media reports said a 68-year old US-based Indian doctor, apparently, in response to his advertisement, received marriage proposals from around 152 Indian women of all age group...

Here is one more feather to the Australian cap - The Charities Aid Foundation's 2012 World Giving Index has ranked Australia the world’s most generous country ahead of Ireland, Canada, New Zealand and the U.S. Meanwhile reports say, Australians gave $2.21 billion in the 2010-11 financial year which is an increase of 12.63% over the previous year.

Reports of a strong manufacturing sector emanating from China lifted market spirits and held out some hope for the Australian and New Zealand currency on Monday. Along with the upbeat news from China was U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to seek congressional approval for possible action against Syria.

Leading scientists and researchers from Australia and India will receive funding, as part of a joint multi-million programme to undertaken cutting-edge research in a wide range of fields, including information and communication technology, vaccines and marine science. The funding under the Australia- India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF), the governments of Australia and India will support 15 new collaborative projects and eight joint workshops.

In a last ditch attempt to save himself from a seemingly impending defeat 6 days away, Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, on Sunday, promised a host of measures to woo voters back. His assurances, including tax breaks and education programmes and plans to counteract the country’s slowing economy, came as opinion polls showed him slipping towards a landslide defeat.

Australia is looking to strengthen collaboration with food and food-processing companies in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. This was announced by Michael Carter, trade commissioner, Australian Trade Commission in India, on Friday. Carter was speaking at the 3-day 10th Indian Food Processing and Food Technology Fair, 'Foodpro 2013' in the state capital, Chennai.

In an incident fit for the survivor series, an adventure seeking New Zealander was stuck in a West Australian island for two weeks, stalked by a six-metre long crocodile, whenever attempted to leave, in his 2.5m long kayak. The distraught tourist was finally rescued, on Saturday, by a local resident of a nearby island who spotted a light on the island.

Stricken by too much nastiness and negativity in television, Foxtel star and "Australia's Next Top Model" (ANTM) judge, Charlotte Dawson, is quitting the life of glitz and glamour to pursue a job in real estate, where she will not be judged for her looks or age.

Taking a step towards opening its Australia office, social media giant, Twitter is reported to have recruited former Google Australia display advertising head, Karen Stocks as local country head. The move has a strong commercial motive but will also help closer engagement with authorities.

It is a major piece of legislation and could change the way we know software. It is a move that is expected to improve the system and drive further innovation. The New Zealand parliament on Thursday passed legislation that bans software patents. The motion was passed by a 117 to four vote and followed five long years of parliamentary debate. However, the legislation will only affect new patent applications. It means that existing software patents in New Zealand will continue to remain in force.

As Tourism Australia vies for a larger pie in India’s outbound travel market, it got a lucky boost from Air India which landed the first Boeing 787 Dreamliner on a commercial service in the country.

Mike Brearley, former England captain will deliver the 11th Sir Donald Bradman Oration on Oct 23. This announcement was made by Cricket Australia (CA) on Tuesday. CA chief executive officer James Sutherland said the cricketing fraternity was delighted that Brearley had accepted the invitation to deliver the Oration.

Four West Papuan pro-independence leaders were arrested by authorities on Wednesday, in Sorong – a coastal city in the eastern Indonesian province of West Papua - on charges of organising a congregation pray meeting at the Maranthan Church in the city. Over 2000 people had gathered at the local church to pray for the safe passage of the “Freedom Flotilla” to West Papua - a journey, which the organisers say, hopes to reunite the indigenous cultures of Australia and West Papua, and bring human ri...

Last week, rumours mills were busy with the story of love rekindling between Prince Andrew and Fergie -Sarah Ferguson. Media reports suggested that the royal couple, both 53, may well be in the path to get remarried after 17 years of divorce. But after all the excitement over the past week, Hello Online on Monday reported that rumours are after all, rumours.

In Kyrgyzstan, four people were hospitalised and another 160 quarantined after fears of an outbreak of bubonic plague in the country. This was after the Kyrgyzstan Ministry of Health, Wednesday, stated a 15-year-old boy due to bubonic plague last week.

He built his empire shooting girls going wild. But a rendezvous with three women at a college graduation party at the Supper Club in Hollywood got the 40-year-old creator and owner of Girls Gone Wild, Joe Francis into some real trouble this time. He thought he “owned the police” but that didn’t help. His luck with the law ran out on Tuesday. Francis was sentenced to a jail term of 270 days, 3 years of probation, an anger management course and sessions of psychological counselling.

It's an image that found reverberations around the world with thousands of "likes" and hundreds of shares and comments. The picture of a wife carrying her soldier husband who lost both legs in a Taliban IED attack in Afghanistan has gone viral on the Internet and touched the hearts of thousands worldwide. Jesse Cottle joined the Marines in 2003 and left in 2009 after an IED blew up his legs. He met his wife Kelly during his recovery in San Diego.

In news that could further embarrass the U.S. Administration and strain its relations with allies, the Germany weekly Der Dpiegel, on Sunday, citing documents obtained by fugitive former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, reported that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) wiretapped the United Nations (U.N.) Headquarters in New York.

In brazen attacks carried out by insurgents, on Sunday, in Iraq, at least 47 people were killed across the country. This is the worst spate of killing since 2008 and is seen as part of a month-long wave of attacks. The killing has brought the focus back on the country's security forces' ability to protect the country against insurgent groups. It raises fears that Iraq's ethnic divide and sectarian violence may push the country back towards a civil war.

Right-wing Hindu organisation, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) said that demonstrations would be held across the country on Monday to protest against the ban on its 'Chaurasi Kosi Parikrama Yatra' (pilgrimage) in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP). This comes after the state government foiled, on Sunday, the proposed ‘yatra’ of the VHP demanding a Ram Temple in Ayodhya.

In swift action that has earned them accolades; the Mumbai Police has arrested all the 5 accused in the gang-rape of the young photojournalist in Mumbai. As reported earlier, on Thursday, 5 men accosted the 22-year-old photojournalist and took turns to rape her. She and her male colleague were on an assignment at an abandoned mill compound in Mumbai. Her male colleague was beaten and tied up during the incident.

Drawing a parallel between Iraq in 2003 and Syria today, Russia warned the U.S. against taking unilateral action in Syria. The Russian Foreign Ministry on Sunday said such action will be a repeat of past mistakes of the U.S. in the region. This warning from Russia came amid reports of U.S. and UK were contemplating options for military strike against government forces in Syria on complains of chemical weapon use.

He called on Allah’s wrath to be on others and now the police have expressed concerns about his safety. In his March sermon, the Tunisian-born Mosque Preacher Sheikh Sharif Hussein Sheikh who is said to be a leading member of the Adelaide Islamic community, attacked Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, former Australian Prime Minister John Howard, US President Barack Obama and called Australian soldiers in Iraq as "Crusader pigs”.

Amid cheering crowds at the Chinese-built National Sports Stadium in Harare and to the chagrin of the west, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe began a new five-year stint in office on Thursday. At 89, he is Africa's oldest yet defiant leaders. In his inaugural address, he, dismissed charges of election fraud, called the West "vile," promised to push further for black ownership of white and foreign-owned companies and attacked homosexuality.

A Maldivian court quashed a public flogging sentence of a 15-year-old girl convicted for having premarital sex. The high court issued a statement on Wednesday saying that the girl, whose step-father is on trial for raping her, had been wrongly convicted by a juvenile court of having pre-marital sex with another man. The February conviction of the girl sparked international outrage and focused attention on treatment of women in Maldives, which is a favourite holiday destination.

Mumbai, the financial capital of India in for some horror as news came of three among a group of five men raping a 22-year-old photographer. Reports said that three men took turn to rape the girl, after her male colleague was bashed up at an abandoned mill compound. The incident happened on Thursday evening close to the railway tracks in the Mahalaxmi area in the city.

The Freedom Flotilla, a convoy of three yachts carrying approximately 50 West Papuan and indigenous Australian protestors bound for the Indonesian territories of West Papua, reached Cooktown, Queensland on Friday morning. It was welcomed by indigenous elders and locals, a media release issued by the organisers said.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday criticised the state government of Uttar Pradesh for banning a ‘yatra’ (pilgrimage) planned by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) in the communally sensitive city of Ayodhya. It is a move that can be politically precarious for the Indian right-wing BJP in an election year, as it seeks to regain power in the 2014 election under its controversial but popular development mascot Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.