SIRF Technology Holdings, the maker of chips for global positioning systems, has failed to persuade the US International Trade Commission to overturn a finding that rival Broadcom did not infringe its patents
CSC`s grip on its lucrative $700 million outsourcing contract with BHP Billiton continues to slip, as a slice of the work has been awarded to rival outsourcer IBM
MATILDA Ledger`s claim to her father`s fortune is yet to be decided, but the three actors role have helped guarantee the youngster`s financial security
Papua New Guinea will set stringent criteria to weed out "louts" who might spoil Australia`s pilot seasonal workers scheme, the foreign affairs minister says
PAKISTANI President Pervez Musharraf announced in a televised address to the nation today that he had decided to resign after nine years in power to avoid the threat of impeachment
THE son of slain former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto has hailed the resignation of Pervez Musharraf, saying the next president would be from Bhutto`s party
TENS of thousands of Muslims took to the streets of Indian Kashmir`s main city today to demand that the United Nations recognise the Himalayan region`s right to self-determination
MOSCOW will review its relations with NATO after the alliance`s "intolerable" reaction to Russia`s military actions in Georgia, the Russian envoy to NATO said in an interview published today
THE family of alleged Nazi war criminal Charles Zentai says a recommendation to extradite their father to Hungary may be challenged all the way back to the Australian High Court
GORGIA said today it saw "no signs" of a promised Russian pullout of combat troops from its territory, amid growing Western pressure on Moscow to begin a withdrawal
OIL exports of 50,000-70,000 barrels a day from Azerbaijan, headed for the West via Georgia, have been suspended after the destruction of a key rail bridge in Georgia, energy group BP said today
GEORGIA sees no sign of the start of a promised Russian withdrawal from Georgian territory, its top national security official said today, despite the Russian military`s insistence it had begun
TROPICAL storm Fay has pummelled western Cuba and barrelled toward the Florida Keys after claiming at least 11 lives in the Dominican Republic and Haiti amid forecasts it would hit hurricane force
ANGLO-Dutch energy group Royal Dutch Shell said that it had evacuated several hundred staff from the Gulf of Mexico which is under threat from Tropical Storm Fay
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pledged today to continue working with the Pakistan Government and thanked outgoing President Pervez Musharraf for aiding the fight against al-Qaeda
Charged... the Church of Scientology is to be tried for fraud in the latest clash between French officials and the controversial religion.
MATILDA Ledger`s claim to her father`s fortune is yet to be decided, but the three actors role have helped guarantee the youngster`s financial security
