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Overseas travelers arriving and leaving on Thursday face clearance delay at international airports as customs officers will go on strike again for 24 hours over a pay dispute with the government.

When water from the tsunami that slammed northeastern Japan on March 11 returned to the ocean, it dragged back huge amounts of debris, including pieces of homes, cars, furniture, fishing boats and refrigerators.

A video footage showing an apparent alien in the Amazon jungle has been posted online and a paranormal claims that the footage is the best proof that extraterrestrials exist.

The Australian Defence Force Investigation Service is investigating why a sailor aboard HMAS Toowoomba died from a gunshot wound in his cabin while the frigate was docked at Mumbai port in India.

An indictment for war crimes charges greeted Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa when he arrived in Australia on Monday.

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.

More than a thousand rescuers, including six battalions of soldiers, and residents were digging for survivors underneath collapsed apartment buildings in eastern Turkey, where a powerful quake struck Sunday afternoon instantly killing 138 and injuring 350 people.

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.

Florida-based asset management firm Stonehenge Capital Management (SCM) announced Monday that its new direction-neutral hedge fund strategy called Forward Curve Realignment (FCR) resulted in strong returns one month after its launching.

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.

An earthquake measuring 7.2 magnitude struck in Turkey's eastern city of Van near the Iranian border toppling 80 buildings and killing 70 people on Sunday afternoon.

The name of Research in Motion's (RIM) upcoming operating system, BBX, is taken and a New Mexico company using BBx prefix to its products has sent a notice to the BlackBerry maker not to use it to avoid confusing the public.

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.

Libyan rebels claimed they have killed the country's ousted leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday during a battle near his hometown Sirte.

Rival groups of protesters clashed in Athens on Thursday on the second day of a general strike to block the parliament's approval of an austerity law.

A Virgin Australia pilot inspecting a parked plane at the Brisbane airport was blown over a staircase by the engine blast from another plane positioning for takeoff on Thursday.

A Las Vegas man with a swelling scrotum has started a fund raising drive to surgically remove the 45-kilogram "excess baggage" in his groin area.

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

Research in Motion (RIM) has unveiled a new mobile operating system that hopes to bring app developers to the fold of BlackBerry smartphones and tablets.

The Gingerbread-powered Droid Razr is the iPhone 4S's newest challenger and Motorola says Apple and non-Apple fans should take notice of its latest innovation as it may be the smartphone they are looking for.

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

The Australian Government Overseas Aid Program (AusAID) spent $110,000 for the training of aid workers in the martial arts technique of kung fu.

Angry Birds maker Rovio revealed at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Tuesday that the popular video game will add a new bird while preparations for a movie version is underway.

Web browser maker Opera Software has developed a new mobile web browser that can load pages faster on devices running on the Android operating system.

Her Majesty The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will arrive in Canberra Wednesday evening for a 10-day visit to the ACT, four cities and three states.

A dead taxi driver from the U.K. became the first man in 3,000 years to be mummified like ancient Egypt's pharaohs; his body will not decompose for several millennia.

Commercial spaceflight company Virgin Galactic has officially opened its spaceport in New Mexico, USA to serve as the jump-off point of space tourists 12 months from now.