IBT Staff Reporter

Oil fell for a fifth straight session to below $84 on Tuesday, almost erasing April's gains, as a forecast increase in U.S. crude stocks highlighted rising supplies and weak demand in the world's largest energy consumer.

NSW Premier Kristina Keneally announced the results of the investigation into an apparent cancer cluster in the NSW Hunter Valley will be made available to the public.

According to the long-standing policy that restricts blood donation from the gay community, a man who has had homosexual sex within the past 12 months is not eligible to donate blood. The policy is now being reviewed by Red Cross Blood service of Australia.

The world's top cellphone maker Nokia unveiled three new, cheaper messaging phone models on Tuesday, challenging the dominance of RIM's Blackberry in the mobile e-mail market.

The first Australia's HIV antibody testing was introduced mid-April of 1985 and nearly 900,000 of the tests are still conducted, yearly across the country.

Recent study shows that although shock, anxiety and depression are experienced by carers, there are also beneficial consequences from their labour of love.

Global oil demand will hit a record high this year, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday, revising up consumption estimates as the world economy recovers from recession.

The world's top cellphone maker Nokia unveiled on Tuesday three new, cheaper messaging phone models, challenging the dominance of RIM's Blackberry in the mobile email market.

Universities Australia has signed an agreement with the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) for an ongoing partnership and collaboration with the universities of India through the AIU.

DISTANCE-learning business education is a resounding success story. In America, specialist universities, such as the University of Phoenix, have hundreds of thousands of postgraduate business students enrolled. If, perhaps, the very top tier of universities are yet to offer distance programmes, still some very notable ones do: Carnegie Mellon or Thunderbird in America, Warwick or Insitito Empresas...

China's Huawei Technologies has been tapped by money-losing smartphone maker Palm Inc for preliminary acquisition talks, a source familiar with the matter said.

China has abandoned parts of an indigenous innovation push in government buying of high-tech products that has rankled the Obama administration, EU and foreign companies, fearing protectionist barriers.

China will chart its own course in reforming the yuan, President Hu Jintao told President Barack Obama, reinforcing the view that Beijing is likely to tip-toe, not leap, toward appreciation.

Futures for the Dow Jones industrial average, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 fall 0.1 to 0.3 percent, pointing to a weaker start on Wall Street on Tuesday.

Apple Inc has accepted distribution of Opera Software's Internet browser for its iPhone after a long review, opening a new and potentially lucrative market it has so far closely guarded.

World stocks eased off a 18-1/2 month high on Tuesday ahead of key corporate earnings, while the yen dipped after lawmakers from Japan's ruling party said it should fall to around 120 per dollar.

Austrian Internet bookmaker bwin Interactive Entertainment plans to be present in up to four South American countries within the next two years, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Oil fell for a fifth straight session to about $84 on Tuesday, almost erasing April's gains, as a forecast increase in U.S. crude inventories fanned concern about excess supplies and sluggish demand growth.

Asian shares fell on Tuesday ahead of key earnings in the United States while the euro consolidated against the dollar but fell against the yen ahead of a treasury bill sale by Greece later in the day.

Apple Inc has accepted distribution of Opera Software's Internet browser for its iPhone after a long review, opening a new and potentially lucrative market so far closely guarded by Apple.

Aluminum producer Alcoa Inc on Monday posted its fifth net loss in the past six quarters, but when charges were excluded its results matched Wall Street estimates.

Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc said on Monday that its bankruptcy court confirmed its reorganization plan and that it expects to emerge from bankruptcy later this year.

Google Inc's chief executive Eric Schmidt said the company's disruptive business created enemies for world's No.1 search engine, and he said that governments were keeping a close watch on the firm.

President Barack Obama repeated his call for more yuan flexibility during a meeting on Monday with China's Hu Jintao, deploying careful diplomatic language while Beijing stressed dialogue.

American International Group Inc strongly objected last year when U.S. pay czar Kenneth Feinberg imposed large cuts in the cash salaries of two of its top executives, regulatory filings showed on Monday.

New measures are being introduced in South Korea seeking to combat the problem of internet addiction. The move follows the trial of a couple for negligent homicide. Their three-month old daughter died of malnutrition, allegedly because they were too busy raising a virtual child in a Second-Life-style game online known as Prius.

Short interest on the New York Stock Exchange fell at the end of March, while bearish bets on the Nasdaq rose in the same period, suggesting investors remain wary of making large bets against the market rally.

BEIJING, April 13 (Reuters) - Chinese President Hu Jintao told U.S. President Barack Obama that Beijing would firmly stick to its own path for reforming the yuan's exchange rate, focusing on China's economic and social development needs.

Internet retailer Amazon.com won approval on Monday to build a distribution center in Canada, despite complaints from Canadian booksellers that it would damage the country's culture.