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The government will accept an Army private's guilty plea to a lesser version of one of the 22 counts he faces for sending more than 70…

Bracanov warned about Royal protest

Police say they warned veteran anti-royalist Sam Bracanov the day before he was arrested not to go through with plans to thro…

Police ID suspect in New Orleans mass shooting

Police late Monday identified a 19-year-old man as a suspect in the shooting of about 20 people during a Mother's Day parade…

Marine faces trial over urination on corpses

A Marine officer in charge of snipers shown in a 2011 video urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters Afghanistan will be…

Man arrested over woman's death in Narrogin

Police have arrested a 48-year-old man over the death of Charmaine Winmar in Narrogin.…

Drugs and cash found in police bikie raids

Police have carried out a number of raids across southern Queensland as part of an operation targeting outlaw motorcycle gang…

Frenchman on trial for Broome murder

Lawyers are making their final submissions to the jury in a three-week murder trial in Broome.…

1200 evacuated from Sydney building fire

Around 1200 people have been evacuated in Sydney's CBD due to a fire in a multi-story building.The area around World Square i…

Police Ram House to End Hostage Standoff

Phoenix police rammed a house with an armored vehicle, to end a 12-hour hostage standoff. The suspect was found dead of a sel…

Raw: Students Clash With Police in Chile

Students demanding wider free education clashed with police in Valparaiso, Chile on Tuesday as President Sebastian Pinera's d…

Raw: Costa Rica Volcano Roars to Life

Costa Rica's Turrialba volcano erupted on Tuesday, shooting out rocks and a huge column of ash. (May 21)…

Families Begin Returning to Their Homes in Moore

Workers raced Tuesday to complete the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado c…

Lawyer: Feds Investigating Susan Powell Case

The lawyer for missing Utah woman Susan Powell's parents, Anne Bremner, said Tuesday in Seattle that federal authorities are …

Raw: Aerial View of Moore Tornado Damage

The National Weather Service says the tornado that hit Moore was a top-of-the-scale EF5 twister with winds of at least 200 mp…

Crews Race to Find Survivors of Okla. Twister

Emergency crews searched the broken remnants of an Oklahoma City suburb Tuesday for survivors of a massive tornado that flatt…

Oklahoma: Images of Devastation, Reunion

Residents of the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore sift through the remnants of their homes and parents embrace children outside …

German software giant SAP AG says it plans to recruit hundreds of staff with autism to make full use of their talents to process infor…

Herbalife names Pricewaterhouse new auditor

Herbalife Ltd. says it has hired PricewaterhouseCoopers to be its new auditor. The nutrition company's previous auditor KPMG…

Indexes edge higher on Wall Street in midday trade

Stock indexes are edging higher in midday trading on Wall Street as investors look ahead to the Federal Reserve's next moves…

Special K churns out products in brand evolution

Special K was once just a line of cereals. Today, it's a diet food empire. The brand first hit shelves in 1955 as a no-frill…

Most metals close higher on LME

Copper on the London Metal Exchange (LME) has closed higher, although earlier gains stalled in the European afternoon in a qu…

Report: Yahoo nearing $1.1B acquisition of Tumblr

Yahoo may be on the verge of closing its biggest acquisition during the 10-month reign of CEO Marissa Mayer as she tries to …

Myer boss fan of falling Aussie dollar

Myer boss Bernie Brookes says he's a fan of the falling Australian dollar as it will have more benefits for the department st…

Gina tops rich list for third year

It takes a special kind of wealth to lose more than $7 billion in a year and still top a list of the nation's richest people.…

Gillard meets schoolkids in western Sydney

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has returned to Sydney's west, mingling with school children ahead of a community cabinet meetin…

Push for new northern port

The Tasmanian Freight Logistics Council wants the port of Bell Bay to be dropped as the state's preferred major port.…

The NSW Government has promised six new ferries, an extra 50 services a week and a new wharf at Barangaroo as part of its 20-year ferry…

WikiLeaks Party closer to registering

The WikiLeaks political party is a step closer to being registered in Australia.The Australian Electoral Commission on Wednes…

South-east Qld to get 10 new schools

The Queensland Government says it will build 10 new schools in "growth hot spots" across the state's south-east, as nine othe…

Housing crisis chokes refugee's hope of new life

A Sudanese refugee considers returning to her strife-torn country over the alternative of being homeless in Perth.…

Claims 'inducement' offered for prison boss to go

The Opposition has alleged senior Justice Department officials offered the former prisons boss financial incentives to quit. …

Barnett refuses to rule out public service job cuts

The Premier Colin Barnett refuses to rule out forced redundancies in the public service as the Government grapples to find sa…

Tax office needs reform, says Hockey

A coalition government will consider breaking up the tax office to separate its policeman functions from its tax administrati…

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