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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.

Campbell Soup Co will shed nearly 800 jobs as part of a series of cost cuts, which include exiting the Russian market, automating operations at a factory in Australia and closing one in the United States.

Gina Rinehart is on track to amass a personal fortune of $100 billion

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge may be arriving in Canada later this week, but royalists in Canada have come up with a longer-term solution for royals in their country: install Prince Harry as their king.

The US Open starts in August

After LulzSec announced its retirement after 50 days of lulz, or an Internet rampage, the flame of cyber war does not seem to be as active as it'd been. LulzSec apparently jumped back onto the boat of its old buddy, Anonymous, to continue sailing on the Operation Anti-Sec against the governments.

The United States formally offered its backing on Tuesday for French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde to take over the top job at the International Monetary Fund, ensuring a win for her over Mexico's Central Bank Governor Agustin Carstens.

French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde looks set to emerge on Tuesday as the International Monetary Fund's new chief, maintaining the tradition of a European heading the global lender.

A list of the major UFO sightings globally after the year 2000.