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A vaccine expert from Canberra's National Centre for Biosecurity (NCB) wants the formula used by virologists to mutate the bird flu virus into a strain capable of killing humans to be omitted in the published version of their experiment for security reason.

Police across Australia charged hundreds of people with various offenses related to drinking and drunkenness from Friday night to Saturday morning.

A federal court judge in San Jose, California has ruled against Apple's petition to temporarily ban the sales of Samsung smartphones and tablets in the U.S. allowing the Korean products in market shelves until the start of the patent infringement trial on July 30, 2012.

The teenager from Morisset Park, New South Wales tried in Bali, Indonesia for marijuana possession returns home Monday after serving two months in detention.

A law inspired by the killing of Australian-born schoolgirl Zarah Clare Baker was passed Thursday in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The law imposes stiffer punishment for anyone disposing body secretly to conceal death.

International sanctions mounted against Iran with the European Union slapping asset freeze and travel ban on 39 individuals and 141 companies from the country on Thursday to counter Tehran's alleged clandestine efforts to build a nuclear bomb.

Winds with gustiness equivalent to a Category 2 hurricane hit southwestern United States on Thursday leaving 340,000 homes in California without power.

A Chinese airliner took off from Osaka's international airport without clearance from air traffic controllers sparking an investigation by civil aviation authorities from the two countries.

Tanzania welcomed visiting former U.S. President George W. Bush and his wife Laura Thursday, ignoring a call by Amnesty International to arrest him for U.S. torture of suspected terrorists during his term.

British American Tobacco (BAT) asked Australia's High Court on Thursday to declare a plain cigarette packaging law as unconstitutional and invalid for violating its trademark.

A federal court has lifted the sales ban on Samsung's Galaxy tablet but the legal battle is not yet over as Apple is taking the case to the High Court.

Two doctors from Locum were killed when their small plane crashed near Queensland's Mundubbera Airport at 7:30 a.m. on Thursday.

Australian Internet service company Melbourne IT (ASX: MLB) has clinched its first Philippine client to mark the start of its foray in the Southeast Asian country.

The Queensland parliament on Wednesday voted 47-40 to pass into law a bill recognising and legalising same sex civil unions.

Airports in the U.K. were spared from gridlock and pandemonium on Wednesday when two million workers went on strike to protest the increase in retirement age.

Some 45,000 residents of the German city of Koblenz will temporarily be evacuated on Sunday to be at a safe distance from an unexploded World War II British bomb that will be detonated by the army and police bomb disposal teams.

France's Council of State, which hears cases against decisions of the national government, has annulled the 2007 and 2008 rules of the agriculture ministry suspending the planting of genetically modified corn in the country.

The Federal Government will reduce the baby bonus to parents by $400 starting September 2012 so it can save money.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev switched on a missile early-warning radar station in the Baltic port city of Kaliningrad Tuesday in a move to counter the U.S. and NATO missile defence shield for Europe.

A one-year-old boy is in critical condition while seven others were injured Tuesday when gunfire erupted during the filming of a rap music video in Oakland, California.

The 14-year-old boy from Sydney found guilty of marijuana possession in Bali, Indonesia will be home before Christmas as his two-month sentence handed on Friday will cover the time he spent in detention in Denpasar while his trial went on.

The 74,000 employees of French IT firm Atos will no longer email each other to cut the time they spend in handling emails.

Airlines are offering free re-booking of flights to London on Wednesday to spare passengers from the expected long delay in customs clearance at the city's airports due to participation of customs officers in a one-day general strike.

The United Nations has accused the Syrian military of torturing, raping and killing hundreds of civilians, including children and women, as part of its crackdown on protesters demanding a new government.

Mexicans claim they have a set a new world record for the largest "zombie walk" when 10,000 of them dressed as undead marched in Mexico's capital on Saturday.

Doubt is being cast over the fairness in choosing the new seven wonders of the world as the organiser's costly requirements to win the slots meant that only natural places in countries that can afford the expenses are more likely to win the highly commercialized global contest.

Libya's new government is sending arms to Syrian rebels trying to oust President Bashar al-Assad as the Arab League approved an economic embargo on his government for killing protesters.

Education authorities and parents of non-Norwegian students in Norway were shocked to learn that a high school in Oslo was segregating ethnic and white students to prevent Norwegian students from transferring to other schools.

Lawyers of Sirhan Sirhan, the convicted killer of former senator Robert F. Kennedy, are seeking his release and a new trial claiming he did not shoot the victim.