After President Barack Obama's commitment this month to a transpacific free trade agreement, business leaders in Europe and United States are asking for a similar initiative across the North Atlantic to spur economic growth and create jobs.
Several of the Blue Penguins rescued from an oil spill that occurred in October off of the coast of the New Zealand island of Tauranga have been returned to the wild.
Rapper Too Short has had enough of the death rumors circulating on Twitter and he wants you know that he is alive and working on his 19th album.
Black Friday 2011 will feature a one-day Apple shopping event. Get your credit cards ready.
African, Australian and Colombian prospects will play a key role in boosting AngloGold Ashanti Ltd.'s gold output to 5.5 million ounces by 2015, the world's third-largest gold mining company said Tuesday.
Australia's Qantas Airlines has been left red-faced after an ill-timed public relations campaign and Twitter competition backfired, drawing thousands of angry responses.
A Facebook craze that originated in Queensland encouraging teenagers to post pictures of themsleves nude on the internet is are investigated by the police.
Qantas Airways' attempt at social media promotion has turned into a disastrous campaign with users sending out messages insulting the airline.
Corporate IT managers don’t have clue about their employees’ mobile devices and how they could potentially kidnap proprietary information, Citrix VP Elizabeth Cholawsky told IBTimes.
Australia's plan to impose a new tax on major coal and iron ore miners moved a step closer Monday after key independent MPs said they would back the legislation in return for stronger oversight of coal seam gas projects and a higher threshold where the tax kicks in.
Australia's minority government won support from two key independents for its controversial 30 percent tax on iron ore and coal mines on Monday, meaning the laws should have the numbers to pass through parliament.
Chinese Vice-Premier Wang Qishan warned Monday that the global economy remains in a grim state and that an unbalanced recovery might be the best option, at talks where senior U.S. officials warned of a souring mood at home toward China.
Rapper and producer Missy Elliott is not dead, she confirmed via Twitter on Sunday. I'm Great ppl 4 all who keep asking! Alive and well! Elliott tweeted. Enjoy ya night tweeps!
Defense chiefs from the United States and Canada said on Friday that budgetary pressures would not derail development of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, saying there was no real alternative to what has become the Pentagon's costliest weapons program.
The US is seeking to boost its influence in Southeast Asia, putting it at direct loggerheads with an ascendant China.
The Australian arm of the collapsed U.S. futures broker MF Global Holdings Ltd. has been shuttered by the administrator Deloitte after no buyers could be found, The Australian newspaper reported on Saturday.
The United States and China faced off on Saturday over the thorny issue of how to resolve competing claims by Asian countries to sovereignty of the South China Sea, the latest point of friction between the two powers.
The United States plans to supply 24 refurbished F-16C/D fighter aircraft to Indonesia, the presidents of the two countries announced in Bali on Friday on the fringes of an Asia-Pacific summit.
The United States plans to supply 24 refurbished F-16C/D fighter aircraft to Indonesia, the presidents of the two countries announced in Bali on Friday on the fringes of an Asia-Pacific summit.
H.J. Heinz Co. saw its fiscal second-quarter net income dip 5.7 percent, as organic sales growth in emerging markets could not offset continually weakening sales in North America.
On Friday, Indonesian budget airline Lion Air placed a $21.7 billion order with Boeing, the airplane giant's biggest commercial order on record.
United States Defense Secretary Leon Panetta appeared to call China and India threats on Thursday, in comments that the Pentagon quickly sought to correct.
