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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.

Dec 19, 2011

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

Dec 19, 2011

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.

Dec 19, 2011

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.

Dec 19, 2011

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.

Dec 16, 2011

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.

Dec 16, 2011

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,

Dec 16, 2011

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.

Dec 16, 2011

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.

Dec 16, 2011

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.

Dec 16, 2011

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.

Dec 15, 2011

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.

Dec 15, 2011

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.

Dec 15, 2011

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.

Dec 15, 2011

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

Dec 15, 2011

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.

Dec 15, 2011

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.

Dec 14, 2011

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

Dec 14, 2011

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.

Dec 14, 2011

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

Dec 14, 2011

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

Dec 14, 2011

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.

Dec 14, 2011

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.

Dec 13, 2011

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

Dec 13, 2011

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.

Dec 13, 2011

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.

Dec 13, 2011

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.

Dec 13, 2011

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.

Dec 13, 2011

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.

Dec 12, 2011