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The labor dispute in the National Basketball Association (NBA) took a turn for the worse Tuesday when players decided to disband their union and sue the league because they find the team owners' last offer of 50-50 profit sharing not good.

The proposal of Infrastructure NSW to provide free train travel from midnight to 7 a.m. to ease overcrowding on peak-hour trains received support from the Sydney Business Chamber (SBC) on Tuesday.

Qantas will start using biofuel to power its planes next year, the airline's CEO Alan Joyce announced during the Australian Airports Association convention in Brisbane on Monday.

Four Spanish nationals are in police custody and facing charges of trafficking 300 kilos of cocaine worth $78 million.

The Parks and Wildlife Service (PWS) are struggling to pull two stranded sperm whales in Tasmania's northwest coast back to the sea on Monday amid bad weather as 24 others died on a beach.

Scientists from the Netherlands have developed an improved nanocar or molecule that moves using four atomic wheels.

Some 3,000 police and soldiers raided and took over two of Brazil's biggest shantytowns Sunday as part of a crackdown against armed drug gangs and security preparations for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics.

U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao exchanged barbs during a closed door meeting at the Asia-Pacific Economic Conference in Hawaii on Saturday.

Israel's defense chief, Ehud Barak wants more explosions similar to the one that struck a missile base in Iran on Saturday that killed 17 soldiers, including the key figure behind the Islamic country's missile programme.

ABC and Fairfax cricket radio commentator and writer Peter Roebuck committed suicide in South Africa on Saturday night.

Spirit has taken control of All Black wing Zac Guildford again over the weekend as he barged drunk, naked and bleeding into a Cook Islands bar and punched two men there.

Leaders of Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States and Vietnam have agreed to the outlines of a free- trade agreement called Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) during a meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii on Saturday.

The U.S. wants Israel to first obtain permission from Washington for any pre-emptive attack on Iran's nuclear facilities but failed to get a clear response, unnamed sources said according to U.K.'s "The Telegraph".

Resorts World Manila (RWM), a casino, hotel and mall complex beside Manila's international airport, launched its third hotel, the 712-room Remington Hotel, on Friday.

Philippine-based international port developer International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) posted revenue from port operations of $474.9 million for nine months ending Sept. 30 2011. The income based on ICTSI's consolidated unaudited financial results for the period is 29 percent higher than the $368.2 million reported in the same period last year.

U.S. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Julia Gillard are expected to announce a bilateral agreement expanding the military relations and cooperation of the two countries when the American leader visits on Thursday.

The pilots union of Qantas airlines has challenged before the Federal Court the ruling of Fair Works Australia (FWA) banning the group from staging industrial action.

Google is pulling the plug on the Gmail in BlackBerry and the email app will no longer be downloadable to the smartphone.

Thai irrigation officials said flood waters in Bangkok will be gone in 11 days as it continues to drain into the sea at a rate of 400 million cubic metres per day.

An animal conservation group has declared the black rhinoceros as extinct and warned that two other subspecies of the animal may also be lost forever due to poaching.

Paleontologist Jack Horner, who was also technical advisor for the Jurassic Park trilogy, has claimed that he can create a chicken dinosaur or chickenosaurus through genetic manipulation. But he will need $1 million to splice the genes of a chicken and dinosaur to create the new species.

Google Inc. executive chairman Eric Schmidt refuted Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs' allegations that the Android copied the iPhone iOS saying the former was developed first before the latter.

Android vendors need not fear patent infringement lawsuits from Apple as Google Inc., maker of the most popular mobile operating system in the world, promised to support them if they face legal actions from the iPhone maker.

The Zetas drug cartel in Mexico has released a local member of the hackers group Anonymous following threats by the latter to expose the identities of the criminal gang's accomplices in the government.

Jason Alexander Downie pleaded guilty Wednesday before the Elizabeth Magistrates Court of killing 16-year-old Chantelle Rowe and her parents in their home in Kapunda, South Australia one year ago.

Australian troops in Afghanistan are hunting an Afghan soldier who shot and seriously wounded three of their colleagues at the Patrol Base Basir in Uruzgan province on Tuesday.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released Tuesday a report containing information indicating Iran had conducted activities to develop a nuclear explosive device. Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the report a fake and accused IAEA director general Yukiya Amano of being a U.S. puppet.

At least 16 devotees of a Hindu sect, the All World Gayatri Parivar, were trampled to death and 50 others were injured on Tuesday when a stampede occurred while they were celebrating the 100th birthday of the founder in northern India.

A California doctor has developed a laser procedure that turns brown eyes to blue that an eye specialist warns may be risky.