The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said it would begin publishing more than 5 million e-mails Monday from a U.S.-based global security think tank, apparently obtained by hackers.
The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said it would begin publishing more than five million emails Monday from a US-based global security think tank, apparently obtained by hackers.
Former Prime Minister Rudd, who was ousted by Gillard in June 2010, said Australians had lost trust in her leadership of the Labor party, which was headed for disaster at the next elections due in late 2013.
Sri Lanka chased down 280 with four balls to spare to clinch a confidence-boosting three-wicket win over Australia in their one-day match in Hobart on Friday and take top spot in the tri-series tournament.
On Friday new evidence was heard about the 1980 death of nine-week-old Azaria Chamberlain. Lindy Chamberlain, Azaria’s mother has always maintained that a dingo took the baby from her tent in the Australian Outback.
A new treatment given to 132 skin cancer patients in the U.S. and Australia almost doubled their survival, according to New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers used the drug Vemurafenib (Zelboraf) on patients and found that they lived for average 16 months as compared to those who underwent conventional treatment and survived for only nine months on average.
In a lucky encounter, the Australian Antarctic Division research team spotted a group of extremely rare Shepherd's beaked whales off the coast of Australia. The rare whales have been caught on film for the first time in history. Watch footage of the Shepherd's beaked whale here.
The judge presiding over the trial of the Gabe Watson, the so-called Honeymoon Killer, angrily sneered at the prosecution and derided them asking if they needed lessons in court room procedure.
Soon you can travel to the Great Barrier Reef from the comfort of your home computer as Google teams up with marine biologists to put the world's largest coral reef system online.
Finding Nemo is about to get a lot easier with the launch of a scientific survey that will allow anyone with access to the internet to take a virtual tour of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
The United States said on Wednesday it was still considering whether to support Japan's bid to join talks on a trans-Pacific regional free trade agreement, three months after Tokyo announced interest in the negotiations.
The world's largest supercomputer won't be a room-sized processor, but a $2 billion telescope, if building starts as planned by 2016.
Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd resigned on Wednesday after a row with fellow party member Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
Adele continues to ride out her success at the 54th Annual Grammy Award show. Adele enjoyed a 207 percent sales increase the week since the Grammys according to New York Daily News. It's the largest post-show boost in Grammy history. To add to her sales increase, Adele has also broken the record formerly held by the late Whitney Houston. Adele's 21 replaced The Bodyguard as the longest running No. 1 album by a woman.
Australian gold miner Kingsgate Consolidated forecast on Wednesday higher gold yields in the second half of fiscal 2012 as it boosts productivity at Thailand's only gold mine.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it will resolve a potentially life-threatening shortage of two leading cancer drugs by allowing one of them to be imported from abroad and rushing approval for a new manufacturer to make the second.
Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L) has made an agreed 992.4 million pounds ($1.6 billion) bid for Mozambique-focused Cove Energy (COVE.L), offering a full price to open up a new gas frontier for the Anglo-Dutch oil major in East Africa.
A YouTube video showing a 90-year old grandma dancing to the beat of I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me), the Grammy award-winning song by Whitney Houston, has gone viral, notching over 700,000 downloads since Feb. 12.
A U.S. software industry report on Wednesday chided Brazil, China and India for policies it said threatened the future of cloud computing, but also took aim at developed countries such as Germany that did well on its inaugural scorecard.
A rare 12.76-carat pink diamond has been discovered at Rio Tinto's Argyle mine in Australia, regarded as the largest pink rough diamond found in the country.
India once again wilted against quality pace bowling as Sri Lanka defeated them by 51 runs in the eighth match of the one-day Tri-series at the Gabba in Brisbane on Tuesday.
Ricky Ponting, Australia's most successful one-day cricketer, accepted that his limited overs international career was over on Tuesday but said he wanted to continue in test cricket and hoped to play in the 2013 Ashes. It's a bit hard to say I've retired given I've been dropped but I don't expect to play one-day international cricket anymore, he said.
