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An Australian state, Tuesday, has launched a global search for candidates for the best job in the world to become an Island caretaker earning a top salary exploring the tropical island for six months.

On Monday Japanese and South Korean leaders put their country differences aside and pledged cooperation amid the global financial crisis in a bid to resuscitate the hard-hit Asian economies.

The days when you sat behind your browser, quickly picked the items you wanted buy, placed them in your virtual basket and checked out without paying sales tax could soon be a thing of the past.

The World Bank said on Sunday it plans to publish the names of all companies it bars from receiving Bank contracts, and named three Indian firms.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday said he's embarking on a Mideast tour to press for Israel and Hamas to immediately stop fighting and allow humanitarian aid into the devastated Palestinian territory.

The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is the world's largest livestock exhibition as well as the world's largest rodeo event.

The missing Pilot who crashed in East Milton Sunday night has been identified but is missing again after checking into a hotel with fake name and run off to the woods.

Sudanese president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, has been urged an influential opposition leader to hand himself over to the international criminal court for Darfur war crimes.

Natural gas supplies will resume to Europe on Tuesday following an announcement from Russia's state-run monopoly Gazprom.

The pilot of the six-seat Piper PA-46 reportedly crash down Sunday night still missing, authorities said.

The end to the dispute seems to be near with Russia is expected to resume its supplies to Ukraine this week following an EU agreement with monitors being deployed to monitor gas flow in Ukraine.

Costa Rica is battling to find survivors in one of the strongest earthquakes to hit Costa Rica in 150 years.

A pair of China's top industrial regions showed signs of economic strain at the end of 2008.

Five of the pirates who hijacked a Saudi supertanker drowned with their share of a $3 million ransom after the boat they were traveling in capsized.

As Stargate Atlantis is about to end the Stargate Universe weekly series will debut as a movie first will begin this summer of 2009.

Brittney Bergeron, a handicapped teenager with aspirations to be a Paralympian for the 2012 London Paralympics shared her story last night with 20/20 after surviving 27 stabs.

On Friday British-based Lloyds TSB Bank agreed to pay a 350 million dollar penalty to settle an investigation for illegally authorizing access by Iran and Sudan in to the US financial system.

Talks between Russian and Ukrainian officials continued late into Friday with both sides failing to agree on the resumed gas supply to Europe via Ukraine.

An estimated 50,000 people in Alexandria, Egypt and thousands in more than a dozen Middle Eastern cities have taken to the streets protesting against Israel.

After receiving a $3 million ransom, Somali pirates released an oil-laden Saudi supertanker.

The severe drought in Kenya may result in ten million people going hungry in Kenya the government said on Friday.

On Thursday the European Union said that gas supplies would resume after agreeing with Russia on supervising the gas flow through Ukraine.

On Thursday gunmen shot and killed a food monitor for the United Nations' World Food Program making it the second killing of a WFP humanitarian worker in Somalia in three days.

On Thursday the US Fifth Fleet announced the establishment of a new international naval force to fight off pirates in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean following a wave of hijackings off the coast of Somalia.

On Wednesday the Zimbabwe government announced restrictive new licensing fees of up to US$30 000 on journalists working for foreign media in Zimbabwe.

A six-year-old boy drives to school courtesy of GTA Skills, after he missed his bus and was keen on getting to school

A 48-year-old skier was left hanging upside down, half naked on a chair lift at the Blue Sky Basin at the Vail Ski Resort in Vail, Colorado, on Tuesday.

President-elect Barack Obama has approached its medical correspondent CNN and CBS News, Sanjay Gupta, to be the country's next general surgeon.

Liskula Cohen, 36, is going to court in an attempt to identify a blogger who wrote negative comment about her using Google's Blogger.com services.