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A deadly shark attack off the coast of western Australia left a bodyboarder dead, Sunday, and forced local authorities to seal off a popular surfing spot and embark on a mission to hunt the elusive predator.

Master champion Charl Schwartzel joined Bubba Watson and Australia's Adam Scott in a three-way tie for the lead at the halfway stage of the Deutsche Bank Championship on Saturday.

Usain Bolt raced to redemption in 19.40 golden seconds on Saturday to retain his world 200 metres title while Anna Chicherova ended Blanka Vlasic's four-year run as high jump world champion.

Israel has also refused to apologize for the killings.

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Imagine surfing with a lit flare on the back of your board. That's exactly what surfer Bruce irons did in a shoot with the Red Bull Minor Threat team.

Wikileaks on Friday has confirmed that it has released an entire archive of 251,287 unredacted U.S. diplomatic cables, endangering the lives of individuals whose names were exposed.

College graduates in debt-stricken Portugal have been migrating in large numbers to its former colonies such as Brazil, Angola, and Mozambique to find work

A new study by UC Berkeley and Italian researchers may have solved a decades-long mystery behind the source of a tree-killing fungus that affected six of the world's seven continents.

Gold prices held steady on Friday as investors stood on the sidelines ahead of a key U.S. payrolls report due later in the day, after recent data sent mixed signals about the status of the world's largest economy.

Gold prices held steady Friday as investors stood on the sidelines ahead of a key U.S. payrolls report due later in the day

Kelly's skull was last thought to have sat on the desk of a Victorian state police detective in 1929. The successful identification of Kelly's remains happened 131 years after he was hanged for murder. Scientists used DNA from Kelly's great great nephew, a Melbourne teacher, Leigh Olver, to identify his bones from others in a mass prison grave.

Not only was Jagger not Australian, he was not even of Irish descent; and he was much shorter and slighter than the big, burly, muscular Kelly.

The remains of notorious Australian criminal, Ned Kelly, have been found and identified.

Portugal is mired in staggering debt, high unemployment and drastic budget cuts to social services

AuRico Gold is having a difficult time escaping the image of being a miner more prone to delivering disappointment than gold bars.

A group of scientists identified the headless remains of Ned Kelly, Australia's infamous outlaw, officials said on Thursday. Their discovery has ended a mystery surrounding the whereabouts of Kelly's body — a mystery that dates back 130 years.

Scientists have successfully identified the relics of Ned Kelly, an Irish Australian bushranger, considered a symbol of Irish-Australian resistance against oppression by the British ruling class, 131 years after he was buried among other prisoners in a mass grave.

The headless remains of Australia's most infamous criminal, Ned Kelly, have been identified, officials said. This has ended a decade-long mystery surrounding the whereabouts of the folk hero's body.

Australia's dominant phone company, Telstra Corp, will be $5 billion better off working with the government's new high-speed broadband network than competing against it, an independent expert said, paving the way for shareholder approval.

15 Muslims were arrested in Rye, New York after Playland Park officials refused to allow women to wear traditional religious headscarf on certain rides.