AUSTRALIA

Zimbabwe-born Australian performer Godfrey Zaburoni, 31, was charged on Tuesday in the Southport Magistrates, Gold Coast for acts of intending to cause grevious bodily harm by infecting women with HIV through unprotected sex.

The Australian Dollar has had a strong run overnight to be trading just below USD0.8500 following a positive lead on equity markets.

Apple Inc's iPad hit overseas store shelves on Friday, with buyers storming Japanese shops to be among the first in Asia to snap up the long-awaited tablet PC.

Australia's rice output in the crop year ended March 31 is expected to touch around 205,000 metric tons or triple from 63,000 tons, according to the grains report by the New South Wales Industry & Investment department.

A free online service has been launched to connect willing study participants with Australia's scientific institutes and universities.

Australian Medical Association (AMA) vice president Steve Hambleton has urged caution on the risk of taking up cosmetic plastic surgery and dental holidays offered by a new launched Gold Coast Business.

Sony Corp said on Thursday it would launch an e-reader and online content distribution service in Japan by year-end, taking on rival Apple Inc whose iPad hits shelves in the country on Friday.

The Australian dollar appears to be building a base in the low USD0.8000s as international financial markets remain volatile.

Global miner Rio Tinto on Wednesday predicted strong iron ore demand to continue and gave an upbeat outlook for aluminum, defying sharp slides in commodity prices and fears of a double-dip global recession.

Medical doctors fear that there will be a widespread of Clostridium difficile in Australia when three elderly patients at a Melbourne private hospital were reported to be infected by the bug.

University students who are frugal on just baked beans and two-minute noodles are at greater risk of developing chronic diseases, according to a new Australian study.

It was a volatile session overnight, with AUD trading to its lowest level since July 2009, before rebounding back towards USD0.8300.

Experts have recorded a positive outlook on the rising number of Australians seeking treatment to get off heroin addiction. However, it also reveals the nation's sporadic heroin supply.

Germany inched toward a wider ban on naked short selling of stocks and Italy approved austerity measures on Tuesday to contain a euro zone debt crisis that could lead U.S. officials to urge stress tests for European banks.

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World's largest wheat exporter, the US is likely to lose its position to Black Sea states, warned US Department of Agriculture. According to a report from the USDA, Black Sea states of Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine look set to raise wheat exports by one half to more than 50m tonnes by the end of the decade, overtaking US for the first time since second World War.

Asia stocks fell to multi-month lows, the euro slid and oil and higher yielding currencies weakened on Tuesday on fears that Europe's sovereign debt woes will trigger a renewed crisis in the continent's banking sector.

Asian stocks fell to multi-month lows and the euro slipped on Tuesday on fears that Europe's sovereign debt woes will trigger a renewed crisis in the continent's banking sector.

Ten people have been cleared of the preliminary blood tests of the potentially fatal Hendra virus following contact with an infected horse on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.

The AUD has opened lower this morning as news out of Europe regarding the financial stability of Spain caused investors to reduce their risky positions as fears about the likelihood global economic recovery persisted.