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The 77-year-old businessman, who financed an Australian team's historic 1983 America's Cup win, later spent nearly four years in jail for corporate fraud.

It is not clear whether the SEC investigation is limited to the spending allegations or is broader in scope.

The decrease in cannabis use in the U.K. comes as its price has risen, to a point where it is two-thirds more expensive than it is in Spain.

“The analysis confirmed that it was a natural pearl," a researcher said.

The secrecy surrounding the negotiation of the Trade in Services Agreement and other major trade pacts has been condemned by labor groups.

Neil Prakash is the third ISIS fighter from Australia to be included in the U.N. sanctions list, which makes it a crime to deal with his assets, or provide him material support.

Cambodia has signed a $32 million, four-year agreement with Australia to resettle asylum seekers.

A ship of Jack Sparrow from the first movie may be back in the next installment of the film.

Over 19,000 square miles of the sea floor has been searched with no concrete clues about the missing plane's location, the Australian search agency said.

Challenging White House claims on the TPP, protesters showed it's not so easy to just "walk over" and "read the text."

Customers will also be able to test Apple Watches paired to a demo iPhone.

Footage shows actor Javier Bardem portraying Captain Salazar in the forthcoming film.

George Pell was accused -- by a Pope-appointed official -- of aiding a pedophile priest and bribing one of his victims.

Small animals are used to bait greyhounds while dogs that lose too many races are treated brutally and put down, according to a government inquiry.

Opposition leader Bill Shorten introduced the bill, hoping to capitalize on momentum from Ireland's popular referendum on the issue.

If convicted in a case centered on the Rana Plaza factory complex collapse that killed 1,129, building owner Sohel Rana could be sentenced to death.

The U.S. military said on Friday it discovered even more suspected shipments of live anthrax than previously thought, both in the United States and abroad, and ordered a sweeping review of practices meant to inactivate the bacteria.

An investigation of a U.S. military facility's mistaken shipments of live anthrax bacteria has turned up another live sample, this one from a 2008 batch sent to Australia, a U.S. defense official said on Friday.

The story of a 31-year-old "digital kingpin," as prosecutors described him, is the subject of multiple book and movie projects.

The view from the top of One World Trade is a great, sprawling city. But for many, it's a memorial to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that moved the world.

In an Australian radio interview, the Season 12 judge also calls the Fox show "boring and fake."