For the 11-year period 2001 to 2012, Australian workers stole a total of $398 million from businesses through employee fraud, a study by forensic accounting firm Warfield and Associates found.
The baby boomer generation in United States currently stands around 80 million Americans, contributing to nearly half of America's total consumption.
Suicide rates in a country may rise anywhere between 8-15 percent during times of economic downturn, said a study by the BMJ Medical Journal on Wednesday, after nearly 13,000 U.K. citizens took their lives between 2008-2010 alone - 1,000 more suicides than expected.
From computer innovations, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has refocused his attention on sanitary concerns, which he believes is the key to eliminate diseases that wipe out millions of people around the world each year.
American scientists have caught the biggest Burmese python ever weighed, and they are now examining the euthanized giant snake at the Florida Museum of Natural History, hoping to manage invasion threats posed by the species.
Airlines’ current policy of ‘special seating accommodation’ for unaccompanied minor or children should be revised or scrapped altogether, a male nurse said following what he described as a humiliating ordeal during his ride with a Qantas Airways flight last June.
So you can fish. But, can you catch a fish with bare hands and pull it out of a freezing water?
Due to dining and retail establishments push to scrap the penalty rate for Sunday work, unions have launched a counter offensive by launching the Save our Aussie Weekends campaign.
As we mark the fifth-year of the global financial crisis today, experts from the United Nation's food agency have warned that soaring world food prices could lead to a repeat of the 2007/08 food crisis which hurt some of the world's poorest communities.
Ferocious winds that tear roofs off buildings and houses continue to batter Sydney Friday afternoon, and power supply has been interrupted in many areas, affecting an estimated 5,000 Aussies.
Some people still doubt the Roswell UFO story due to insufficient reports on the matter, but a former Air Force official has recently stood up to assert there were actually two aircrafts that crashed on the site almost 65 years ago.
Miami cannibal attack victim Ronald Poppo, 65, has spoken to investigators about what he recalled about the man who chewed off his face, saying his attacker “just ripped me to ribbons.”
An estimated sixty percent of the Philippine capital is still submerged in floodwaters as a result of incessant monsoon downpour lasting over a week. The government and several aid agencies are rushing to help those badly affected by the unstoppable Habagat (wet season monsoon).
An independent Islamic sect in Russia has kept 20 children living underground for almost ten years, a court heard. The children, including a 17-year-old who was pregnant, had not been exposed to the natural heat of sunlight. They were part of 70 sect members who appeared to have been held captive underground.
Abortion in New Zealand will keep its present form and functions following a decision released on Thursday by the country’s Supreme Court, which upheld an earlier ruling that says assessments handed down by abortion consultants cannot be reviewed by the Abortion Supervisory Committee.
Is Adelaide ready for an earthquake? A panel of four experts from South Australia will explore Adelaide's preparedness for an earthquake.
Google has not yet thoroughly deleted all the private information it had gathered in a “mistake” committed while collecting images for its Street View service.
A father whose son had been murdered could not accept that the U.S. Postal Service has lost his son’s remains. One month has passed since Joshua Lindsay’s remains were shipped.
Flesh trade in the mining region of Queensland got a legal boost this week as the state’s Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT) ruled in favour of a sex worker who was banned by a local motel from conducting her business at the establishment.
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom told the New Zealand High Court on Tuesday that the illegal raid conducted by a joint team of local police officials and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation left his multi-million mansion and his life in disarray.
A 3-year-old girl died in what appeared to be an exorcism ritual conducted by her own parents and other family members. Police told reporters they received a distress call from an uncle of the little girl. When they raided the house in Bukit Mertajam (280 kilometres north of Kuala Lumpur), they saw the ritual in progress.
For the first time in a hundred years, New Zealand's Mount Tongariro erupted Monday night, spewing an ash cloud that spans one kilometre. A local witnessed and reported the eruption just before midnight. The witness said the eruption had created "a new hole in the side of the mountain."
A number of Australian jobs are in danger of totally disappearing from the local workplace settings not because they don’t matter anymore, reports said.
The Australian Capital Territories (ACT) government said on Monday that it is monitoring the situation in Tasmania after the territory's Legislative Assembly prepares a draft law to recognise same-sex marriage.
China sees the Philippines as a US proxy. According to a foreign policy expert, this is the reason why Asian power is "overreacting" in the maritime and territorial dispute it has with the Philippines.
Cats and kittens have been "speaking up" on Facebook, thanks to funnymama.com and other meme-focused websites spreading some cat lovin' on the web. Cats can be so cold, defiant and snooty. Yet in spite of their stuck-up "attitude," these felines can be so adorable. See some of the funniest and cutest cat photos in the accompanying slideshow.
Nature is returning to Australians the trash they carelessly leave behind in the country's beaches. Reports said that over 4,500 pieces of rubber footwear were washed up in a Queensland beach.
A taxi driver was fatally stabbed, and his attacker died in an accident within a few minutes in Melbourne's east. Meanwhile, Taxi Industry Stakeholders Victoria spokesman David Brumby urged taxi drivers to keep calm, "show respect for the driver and support his family."
John Campion, an expert surfer, was mauled by what is believed to be a bronze whaler off Streaky Bay in West Coast waters, but he is now in stable condition after the shark attack. A photographer tells the story.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) smashed on Tuesday what is believed as part of an international drug operation that led to the arrest of seven persons and the seizure of drug piles, with an estimated street value of $500 million.
