AUSTRALIA

A skeleton found in Queensland suggests a specimen of prehistoric megafauna the size of a large SUV--the largest marsupial that ever lived. It stood about 6' 6 at the shoulder and was nearly 10 feet long.

In an attempt to find ways to produce more and bigger crawfish, a Louisiana researcher said, she's had success with lighting the ponds at night and also believes that her work could pave the way for expanding crawfish farming in cooler areas, an AP report said.

Police in Australia's New South Wales state, which includes the largest city Sydney, will now have greater powers to remove the burqas or any other face coverings in order to identify criminal suspects.

The famed tournament in New York begins in late August.

A group of hackers, known as AntiSec, claimed to have a list of 27 usernames and passwords taken from an SQL database from an online surveys hosted on an Apple Inc. Business Intelligence site on Sunday.

Reserve-rich Asia can afford to turn on the government spending taps should a recent bout of sluggish economic growth deteriorate into a deeper downturn.

With the advent of the first female Prime Minister in Thailand, women now seem to be more powerful than ever.

A green sea turtle washed off dead on far North coast of New South Wales beach in Australia with over 300 pieces of plastic debris lodged in its guts.

Australia's airline safety regulator has grounded the local operations of Singapore's budget carrier Tiger Airways Holding Ltd over serious safety concerns, disrupting thousands of passengers at the start of the school holiday season.

A policy overhaul to be decided by Cabinet within weeks would remove all gender barriers from the military next year.

The FIFA Women's World Cup is underway and many of the teams have already played two of the five games in the Group Stage.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the social network giant plans to launch something awesome next week, possibly in response to the Google+ release earlier this week.

When PC giant Hewlett-Packard spent $1.2 billion to buy Palm Inc. in July 2010, everyone was wondering what HP would do with Palm's critically-acclaimed operating system WebOS.

Former Australian Idol judge and Sony Music executive, Jay Dee Springbett, was found dead at his apartment in eastern Sydney on Thursday.

The London Stock Exchange's aborted bid for Canada's TMX Group has raised the tally of failed cross-border exchange deals to three in four as the sector faces an uphill battle to secure longed-for consolidation.

The intial reviews for HP's new tablet, the TouchPad, are in and the device is being released in a crowded field led by Apple's iPad 2.

PC giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) will be launching its Touchpad tablet device in United States on July 1.

Australian Paleontologists have discovered half-a-billion-year-old fossils that show primitive animals had exceptional vision.

Australian authorities are investigating an incident that occurred this past weekend in which a Great Barrier Reef dive boat accidentally left behind a U.S. snorkeler.

Gina Rinehart, the richest person in Australia could soon beat Carlos Slim, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, if the Citigroup’s predictions are correct.

This isn't the first time Facebook has hired an infamous hacker: In fact, there are several teenaged hackers who got rewarded for their cyber-crime instead of being imprisoned.