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A drilling rig with 67 people fell into the icy Sea of Okhotsk off Russia's far eastern island of Sakhalin on Sunday while it was being towed amid rough waters. The accident killed four people and 50 were lost at sea.

Emerging rap star Slim Dunkin died at hospital in Atlanta, Georgia after he was shot in the chest on Friday afternoon.

A boat trying to sneak in 250 immigrants from the Middle East to Australia capsized in rough seas off East Java, Indonesia on Saturday. Some 185 passengers went missing while 15 drowned.

Two Australians figured in a brawl inside a disco near Bali's Kuta Beach on Friday with one getting slashed with a knife in the chest and the other stabbed in the stomach.

Some 30,000 non-Arab Libyans plan to return next week to their town, which they abandoned due to reprisal attacks by anti-Gaddafi militias.

Surgeons in Dallas, Texas on Wednesday removed the damaged left eye of fashion model Lauren Scruggs, 10 days after she also lost her left hand when she accidentally walked into the rotating propeller of a small plane.

Music legend Molly Meldrum is in critical condition at The Alfred Hospital on Friday after he fell at his home in Richmond, Victoria Thursday evening while putting up Christmas decorations,

A firm based in Seattle specializing in caller identification technology has sued Apple Inc. for patent infringement alleging that the latter is illegally using its inventions on iPhones.

Victoria police investigating the alleged hacking of the Labor Party's database of supporters in November 2010 searched the computers of three reporters from "The Age" inside the newspaper's office instead of confiscating the machines on Thursday.

Police has detained and charged Chicago Bears player Sam Hurd after he accepted one kilo of packaged cocaine from an undercover federal agent posing as a drug supplier who sold it to him.

China's largest patrol ship will guard its territory in the East China Sea, where a group of uninhabited islands also being claimed by Japan and Taiwan is located.

The Commonwealth Bank's website and ATM went offline for five hours Wednesday angering customers who could not withdraw money and do other online transactions.

The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall will visit Australia next year as part of the Commonwealth-wide celebration of the Queen's 60th year as a monarch.

A backpack with the word "Bang" found inside a Los Angeles subway train prompted authorities to close the train station for more than two hours on Tuesday night.

Japanese scientists will measure the radiation level in the forest near the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant using wild monkeys.

Some 4,000 duck-like migratory birds crash-landed in the parking lot of a Cedar City Wal-Mart store and other snow-covered grounds in southern Utah on Monday night.

Papua New Guinea was engulfed in a political turmoil on Monday when its Supreme Court ordered the reinstatement of Sir Michael Somare as the prime minister, a post that parliament bestowed earlier to Peter O'Neill. But O'Neill refuses to turn over his post, so the country technically has two leaders.

A U.S. Air Force drone monitoring pirates off the East African coast crashed in the airport of Seychelles on Tuesday.

Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen announced Tuesday that he and aerospace engineer Burt Rutan are building the largest aircraft that can launch a satellite or spacecraft into orbit.

NSW and Queensland police busted separate drug rings on Tuesday morning arresting eight people and seizing heroin, cocaine and cannabis from raided homes.

Canada is withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol, according to its Environment Minister Peter Kent.

A Rutherglen man's effort to find the remains of his brother under a disused mine near Avoca got a boost from the Victoria government, which offered to reimburse up to $25,000 in cost to the digging.

A jobless man angry for not receiving unemployment benefits threw his shoes at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while he was speaking at a ceremony in the city of Sari, Mazandaran Province on Monday. The shoes missed the president, who dodged it, and hit the banner behind him instead.

Bomb disposal experts defused a letter bomb received by the Greek embassy in Paris, France on Monday.

ABC radio host Richard Glover and Sydney journalist-author Peter FitzSimons established a new world record for the longest live radio chat on Monday after 24 hours of non-stop interview on the air.

A 25-year-old refrigeration mechanic was killed when his van exploded Monday morning in front of his home in the Melbourne suburb of Mulgrave.

Two lost fishermen from Kiribati drifted for 33 days in the Pacific Ocean before they washed into an atoll of the Marshall Islands, 560 kilometres from their island home.

An Iranian lawmaker said Monday that Iran will replicate a captured U.S. drone and produce a better version of the unmanned spying plane for its own use.

Telecommunications firm Telstra shut down its online billing and BigPond e-mail service for more than 24 hours starting Friday night after its bundle plan customer database became accessible to the public exposing user names and passwords of some 60,000 customers.