AUSTRALIA

While there is a petition out to get Kim Kardashian off television it seems Australia may go a step further: it may become Kim Kardashian-free. Several media outlets are reporting that Kim Kardashian has been placed on an Australian Immigration Department watch list for allegedly breaching her visa application three times.

So it's not exactly on the ballot for the 2012 Grammy Awards, but Lou Reed and Metallica's album collaboration Lulu isn't that bad. Or is it? A record store took a rather counterintuitive approach to advertising its music, when it hung a sign nearby the album which read, Lou Reed talking over Metallica playing boring jams. Probably the worst thing ever.

Three days after an Apple iPhone spontaneously combust on an airplane in Australia a man is now claiming that his friend's Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket did the same thing.

United States International Trade Commission commissioners will vote Friday on weather or not the U.S. solar industry is harmed by the alleged dumping of Chinese solar components. What happens Friday could either break or propel the case forward.

Salesforce.com Inc. (NYSE: CRM) held its Cloudforce user event in New York City on Wednesday. The company formally launched its Social Marketing Cloud service and the AppExchange Mobile Site at the event.

After 33 days at sea, two Kiribati men were rescued by U.S. coast guard on a remote Pacific atoll in the Marshall Islands.

Untouchable, a comedy about a rich quadriplegic and his black caretaker, has become a certified box office phenomenon in France.

Despite warnings of travel chaos, the Nov. 30 public sector strike in the UK has caused no significant delays at Britain's main airports.

Australia's foreign minister on Wednesday backed the formation of a security pact with India and the United States, a tie-up that could fuel China's worries of being fenced in by wary neighbors.

An Australian court on Wednesday reversed a ban on the sale of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's Galaxy tablet computers in the country, handing it a rare victory against rival Apple Inc in the firms' intensifying global patent war.

Samsung Electronics Co is set to resume selling its Galaxy tablet computer in Australia as early as Friday, after the South Korean technology firm won a rare legal victory in a long-running global patent war with Apple Inc.

An Australian court reversed a ban on the sale of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's (005930.KS) Galaxy tablet computers in the country, handing it a rare victory against rival Apple Inc (AAPL.O) in the firms' intensifying global patent war.

Mercer released the results of its Quality of Living Survey on Tuesday, and the world's best and worst cities are...

Upon closer inspection of the iPhone that spontaneously combusted on an Australian flight, the logo signifies that the back panel was not made by Apple. Was the damaged phone a custom job?

A gay marriage ad from Australia's GetUp! community advocacy organization went viral over the weekend, racking up over 2 million hits on YouTube.

An Australian airliner said a passenger's iPhone 4 started glowing red and smoking before a flight attendant doused the phone with a fire extinguisher.

Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence, a horror film, has been banned by the Classification Review Board in Australia. It made its Australian premiere at the Brisbane International Film Festival three weeks ago.

The Apple product was glowing red and emitting a significant amount of black smoke when it suffered a minor explosion on a Regional Express flight from Lismore to Sydney, Australia. This is not the first time Apple's lithium batteries overheating have caused fires and combustion, and the burning iPhone 4 incident still has no definite cause from Australian authorities.

Lana Peters, only daughter and last surviving child of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, died last week of colon cancer at the age of 85.

Two Oscar foreign-language contenders, Iran's A Separation and Turkey's Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, were the big winners at Thursday's Asia Pacific Screen Awards, which took place in Queensland, Australia.

As a result of the poor box-office performance of Happy Feet Two, 600 of the 700 employees at the digital production studio behind the animated movie reportedly have received their walking papers.