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Hope is quickly fading for about 90 individuals still missing after a boat bound for Australia capsized in heavy seas south of Indonesia near Christmas Island.

Popularly promoted remedies for jellyfish stings range from vinegar to meat tenderizer to urine. But less outlandish methods are more broadly effective, researchers found.

Ecuador is reviewing Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's asylum plea, President Rafael Correa said Thursday.

Authorities fear that as many as 75 people have drowned, while some 40 people are currently clinging to the upturned hull of the ship as they wait for rescuers.

The world's richest woman is poised to take control of Fairfax Media, one of Australia's oldest and most-respected publishing companies.

Here are the top five anger prone stars that would be seriously dangerous if they were armed.

An archaeologist has found what is believed to be the oldest rock art in Australia and one of the oldest in the world -- a 28,000-year-old work created in a cave in the outback by an Aboriginal.

Asian shares slipped on Tuesday as a post-Greek election relief rally quickly ran out of steam, with rising Spanish and Italian bond yields signaling that European leaders still have much to do to contain the euro zone debt crisis.

Australia's Fairfax Media, which publishes the Sydney Morning Herald, announced that it will cut 1,900 jobs over the next three years in an effort to keep the company afloat amid falling revenues as the journalism industry increasingly shifts online.

Certain financial-market commentators were -- er, uh -- commentating either early Monday or late Sunday (depending on one's global positioning) about a relief rally in this market or that market allegedly propelled by Greece's election results, which suggest the euro zone will not be falling apart. This week, anyway.

The highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy S3, which has already racked up 9 million pre-orders globally, has pushed back its release date in Canada and for Verizon buyers. Users in Canada will have to wait until June 27 for Samsung?s flagship device, and Verizon subscribers won?t be able to get the phone until July 10.

The Australian government has released new information about the extensive history of physical and sexual abuse of minors in the military dating back more than five decades.

The very peak of Powell's career likely occurred in April 1968,when he delivered his infamous Rivers of Blood speech in Birmingham in which he warned that unchecked immigration of non-whites into Britain would lead to violence in the streets and social collapse.

Something strange is going to take place next week at the G-20 summit: Europe, long accustomed to sending aid through the International Monetary Fund to developing nations, will pass a collection plate to many of those same countries. But to get such help, which could be as much as $105 billion from four major emerging economies, European nations will have to surrender some control of the IMF.

Though rents went down, grocery bills shrank and companies trimmed their workforce after the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami, Tokyo edged past Angolan capital Luanda to become the world?s most expensive city for expatriates in Mercer?s 2012 survey.

An Australian coroner ruled on Tuesday that a dingo, native to the Outback, kidnapped and killed baby Azaria Chamberlain in the infamous 1980 case that led to the mistaken murder conviction of the nine-week-old's mother Lindy Chamberlain. She was later cleared.

Not many people knew of Hugh Jackman's wife, Deborra-Lee Furness, before Sunday night's Tony Awards, when she surprised the movie star, memorable Tony Awards host and Broadway veteran, with a Special Tony Award.

Google was targeted for unethical and anti-competitive business practices once again when a non-profit organization working on public interest issues filed a complaint against the search engine giant with the anti-trust body, Competition Commission of India (CCI), Friday. This comes at a time when Google India is already facing a formal probe on a similar complaint filed by an Indian matrimonial site.

Adam Opel GmbH, an aging European subsidiary of the General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM), is hoping Chinese sales will be a panacea for miserable performance in the European market.

As we have long expected, China is beginning to decelerate.

Apple is expected to unveil a ton of new products next week at the 2012 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, but on Friday, Gadget Lab tweeted a picture from Wired's Roberto Baldwin of a banner put up in Moscone West, one of the WWDC event locations, which showcased iOS 6: The world's most advanced mobile operating system.