SYDNEY (Reuters) - Taking to Facebook, the U.S. ambassador to Australia is urging Australians to cease their illegal downloads of "Game of Thrones", saying that they are among the world's worst pirates of the wildly popular medieval te... [Full Article]
By Jane Wardell SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Federal Police have arrested the self-proclaimed leader of the international hacking group LulzSec, the collective that claimed responsibility for infiltrating and shutting down the CIA website. Police sa... [Full Article]
SYDNEY (AP) - Australian police have arrested a man they say is affiliated with international hacking collective Lulz Security on a charge of attacking and defacing a government website, officials said Wednesday. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter Inc has acquired We Are Hunted, a small, three-person music streaming startup based in Australia, the two companies said on Thursday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the purchase appears to reaffirm Twitter... [Full Article]
By Jane Wardell SYDNEY (Reuters) - Apple Inc blamed "old-fashioned" record companies, film studios and TV networks for the inflated prices Australians pay compared with U.S. consumers for digital downloads, as it defended its pricing strate... [Full Article]
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Another Australian government minister quit Friday in the fallout from a bungled leadership ballot that reinforced perceptions of a crisis in Prime Minister Julia Gillard's administration six months before national ele... [Full Article]
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Australia's prime minister has accepted the resignation of a Cabinet minister who had supported a bungled leadership challenge. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Julia Gillard remains Australia's prime minister after she threw her job open to a leadership ballot but no one from the government was willing to run against her. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard delivered a historic national apology in Parliament on Thursday to the thousands of unwed mothers who were forced by government policies to give up their babies for adoption over seve... [Full Article]
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - A government minister Thursday called on Prime Minister Julia Gillard to hold a leadership ballot because her government faces defeat at elections this year. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]