POLITICS & POLICY

With a day to go before elections, on Thursday, the battle seemed to get bitter. What happens when the media mogul brushes a business tycoon the wrong way; sparks fly. Flamboyant Australian billionaire Clive Palmer, enraged by an article in a local national newspaper, that questioned his credibility and credentials, not only wowed to take the newspaper owner Rupert Murdoch to court, but also called Murdoch’s estranged wife Wendi Deng, a Chinese spy.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar has retreated from its recent highs as the G20 meeting begins in St. Petersburg and financial markets await the most recent US jobs data tonight.

Australian Federal Election 2013 last minute reminders for Muslims and Aussie voters

U.S. President Barack Obama has confronted strong opposition from leaders worldwide against launching a military attack on Syria.

Canadian Foreign Minister had announced that Canada would act enthusiastically to help Syrian civilians.

Animal rights activists in Australia have raised the pitch against shocking live exports, calling upon voters to consider cruelty to live export animals while voting and demanding candidates make their positions on the issue clear.

Opposition Liberal National did a turnaround Thursday, when it replaced its policy on enhancing online safety for children which provided for mandatory implementation of “opt-out” internet filters, by default for all Australians. The turnaround came in less than 5 hours after the earlier policy document was released. The redraft followed a major uproar, particularly on social media, with Malcolm Turnbull facing much of the ire.

World War III, the Apocalypse or the End of Days may be coming to Syria as US President Barack Obama was backed by the US Senate in his bid to push for a military strike against the Assad regime in Syria. The move to strike Syria passed the initial hurdle when a Senate panel voted in favour of the planned retaliation against the Syrian government's use of chemical weapons against its own people. However, despite the victory, the narrow margin of votes only showed how the United States will b...

The extremely high levels of ammonia discharged by a plant in just a span of 40 hours have killed a whopping number of 110 tonnes of fish from a river in China's central Hubei province.

Australia's climate change policy is always considered to be a major factor that will greatly impact the next government after the Sept. 7 federal elections. For the Australian voting public, the issue of climate change has dropped down from the list of the most important issues that the next leadership should address.

Canada may have been ranked as the 14th globally competitive economy by the World Economic Forum (WEF), but Canadians aren't happy about it. For one, it just maintained status quo from last year. Moreover, the government hardly spends on research and development.

The TV ad of Getup has been banned in local networks because it criticises media mogul Rupert Murdoch. The activist group has lodged a complaint with the consumer watchdog Australian Competition and Consumer Commission for the refusal of Channels 7, 9, and 10 to play its advertisement on air.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar has extended its rally, and maybe heading toward USD 0.9200 after GDP data showed local economic growth was solid in the June quarter.

Appearing in ABC 1’s "Kitchen Cabinet" show, Tony Abbott shares that all is well between him and Julia Gillard.

With President Barack Obama on Wednesday gaining a vote of support over his bid for military action against Syria, should the world already cower and start digging underground hideouts in preparation for the apocalyptic doomsday WW3?

Quebec’s proposed ban on religious headwear faced another opposition when one of the major teachers’ unions has publicly expressed its views on the issue.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called John Kerry a liar

Data released based on a Freedom of Information request disclosed that over 300,000 attempts were made in 2012 from the British Parliament, particularly the House of Commons, to access pornographic Web sites.

Amid widespread speculation among Filipinos that detained pork barrel scam queen Janet Lim-Napoles is laying the groundwork for hospital detention with her recent bouts of hypertension and anxiety attack, her lawyer, Lorna Kapunan, assured that her client won't join the notorious St Luke's gang.

Kim Dotcom seems to have a few more surprises up his sleeves. After his tweet about plans to launch a political party in New Zealand - a leak which he attributed to “whistleblower”- picked up storm, it is now known that he quit as director of Mega, the cloud hosting service that he launched with much fanfare in Jan 2013, after his previous file sharing venture Megaupload was shut down in a U.S. driven operation, following allegations of mass copyright infringement and money laundering.

Activists on the Freedom Flotilla, set for an unauthorised landfall on the Indonesian territory of West Papua, arrived at Thursday Island in the Torres Strait on Tuesday. As they plan the last leg of their protest journey, organisers said, international support for the movement for West Papua self-determination was growing.

Australia’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) found a $266 a week overall difference between what men and women in full-time work earn. Calculations show that takes 64 extra days of work for the average woman to equal what a man earns in a year. In its latest workplace survey figures, WGEA shows that, the gap between what men and women earn is widening in the country, increasing from 15% in 2004 to 17.5% over the last year.

Controversial Internet entrepreneur, founder of Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, has announced plans to launch a new political party in New Zealand. Tweeting that it was in early stages of formation, he said the new party will contest elections next year in New Zealand.

President Barack Obama has been successful in winning support from key political figures in the U.S. including Eric Cantor and John Boehner.

Crisis-stricken Japan, which has yet to gain a definite hold on how to arrest the radiation problems of a nuclear plant downed by an earthquake two years ago, has again been shaken by a strong 6.9 magnitude quake on Wednesday.

In news that would come as a major relief for Lockheed Martin Corp., the U.S. based manufacturer of fighter aircrafts, Australia’s opposition coalition seems inclined toward the government’s defence procurement plan to buy dozens of new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets. However, another report says, that the Opposition’s commitment is not absolute.

Syrian-Australian families revealed threats from Assad spies in Australia

Unless the world gets it act together to counter the worsening global climate change, it won't be long before it sees the total wipe out of the oceans' coral reefs.

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne joins the list of Canadian political leaders who are against the proposed ban on religious headwear for public servants.