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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.

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.

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.

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.

Samsung Electronics said on Thursday that it would launch a redesigned version of its 10.1-inch Galaxy Tab model in Germany as early as this week to avoid a sales ban on the tablet, which a German court said violated Apple's patents.

Ronnie Biggs is due to launch his new autobiography.

Growing investor demand for silver will help boost its price above $50 per ounce by the end of next year, a top official at Thomson Reuters GFMS said Wednesday.

Given the increasing presence of women in high levels of politics around the world, I am wondering what the “standard protocol” for such greetings should be?

Pressure eased on Europe's government debt market Wednesday, with Italian borrowing costs back below the 7 percent level viewed as unsustainable after the European Central Bank was seen buying up bonds.

The European Central Bank stepped in to stem an accelerating selloff of euro zone government bonds on Wednesday, traders said, after the United States called for more decisive action to halt the spreading sovereign debt crisis.

President Barack Obama and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard Wednesday unveiled plans for a deepening of the U.S. military presence in the Asia-Pacific, starting with thousands of U.S. Marines operating out of a de facto military base in the Australian port of Darwin.