AUSTRALIA

Rio Tinto PLC, the world's second largest iron ore miner, is set to spend more than half a billion dollars automating cars, trains and trucks at one of its Western Australia mines so that they can be operated remotely.

The cost of financing new planes may come off current highs for some carriers as lenders step up competition for creditworthy debtors, a top supplier of aircraft financing told Reuters.

Australia-born author and motivational speaker Nick Vujicic married fiancé Kanae Miyahara on Feb.12 in California. Vujicic, 29, was born with a rare condition of the absence of limbs called Tetra-amelia syndrome.

Scientists have mapped the genome of Australia's endangered Tasmanian devil for the first time and found that deadly facial tumors decimating the species evolve very slowly, making it possible help might be found before the animals vanish forever.

The convoluted path of Air Australia, which is less than four months old and operated on a leased fleet of five aircraft, is being framed as a case study in which corporate hubris and a hands-off approach from corporate regulators combined to deliver a spectacular demise.

Nearly 4,000 overseas Air Australia passengers got bad news Friday when they learned that the airline had collapsed and they didn't have a way home.

Rupert Murdoch pledged unwavering support to his scandal-hit Sun on Friday, and promised to launch a Sunday edition soon, to try to win back angry staff in one of the biggest challenges to his more than 40 years as proprietor at the British tabloid.

Vale , the world's largest iron ore producer, said on Thursday it is selling 80 percent of its ore using spot prices, nearly completing a historic shift to market-based pricing for the principal raw material used in steel.

Vale SA , the world's No. 2 iron-ore producer, raised its outlook for legal losses nearly five-fold to $22.4 billion as courts moved closer to allowing Brazilian tax authorities to levy overseas investments.

Robust economic data and European Central Bank support for Greece energized U.S. stocks Thursday, as investors ignored possible bank downgrades and lifted equities to a nine-month high.

The United States, in a review of future satellite needs, is examining opportunities to increase international collaboration and orders from commercial providers, a senior U.S. Air Force official said on Wednesday.

Yet another peculiar trend is gaining traction among hip Brooklynite parents: the babyccino. The drink is described as a macchiato-like beverage featuring a shot of decaf expresso topped with steamed milk and froth, according to the Huffington Post. Not ordinarily listed on the menu, a babyccino usually costs around $2.

Australia's flagship airline, Quantas, is expected to cut hundreds of employees when it discloses its half-year results on Thursday, the nation's Herald Sun newspaper reported.

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News Corp., the vehicle of controversial publisher Rupert Murdoch, could be probed by British authorities “for sustained criminality over a sustained period of time” for many activities.

Labs whose experiments on dangerous pathogens are funded by the U.S. government must follow specific rules to keep the microbes from escaping, but those rules are not enforceable for researchers working with private funds. Outside the country, security and safety requirements vary widely, experts say.

Astronomers announced Wednesday that a controversial midsized black hole matures by shredding apart a surrounding galaxy, a first glimpse into how the medium-sized black hole forms.

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China's defense budget is set to double by 2015, which will be more than the combined spend of all other key defense markets in Asia Pacific, a global think tank has said.

Researchers caught a wobbegong shark on camera halfway through swallowing a whole bamboo shark along Australia's Great Barrier Reef.