A whistleblower exposed detailed of rape to men asylum seekers in Manus Islands
Arjean Marie Belco, the indigenous Filipino woman who was earlier denied by KLM Airlines to board her flight from Malaysia to Brazil, has finally landed in Rio de Janeiro. Goodxorg, the nonprofit group who organised and sponsored Ms Belco's trip in time for the World Youth Day 2013 festivities, believed its scholar was denied her "right to travel" all because she did not fit KLM's idea of a traveler, thus essentially "a case of discrimination."
Tony Abbott told Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to move fast and send asylum seekers to Papua New Guinea. The Opposition leader criticised Kevin Rudd for letting Papua New Guinea control its budget for aid.
Prices of gold futures have dropped on Wednesday, a day after India announced it will be imposing restrictions on its imports of the safe haven yellow gold metal.
Premier Campbell Newman asked Queenslander if they want the new Queensland Children’s Hospital to be named after the Royal Baby
In November 2011, the Australian Human Rights Commission, in an audit report, put forward 31 recommendations to clean up the culture at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA).
Remember this famous photo of then Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard knitting a toy kangaroo for the forthcoming baby of Prince William and Kate Middleton?
Still reeling from the devastating floods in June, China has been struck again with another catastrophe. On Monday, China's western Gansu province was hit by two earthquakes, killing 89 and injuring more than 500 people. Authorities feared the death toll could go up as about 1,200 buildings had collapsed and tens of thousands more badly damaged.
Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar is trading higher this morning following some weaker than expected data in the US and a stronger gold price.
The Greens announced its new paid parental leave policy which sounded like that of the Coalition's but better than Labor's
One of the highlights of a tour of New Zealand's Parliament building in Wellington, more popularly called the Beehive, is a short video clip on the building being earthquake-proof.
Here are the photographs that shocked the world.
Opposition leader Tony Abbott says that election must happen soon.
Here are the photographs that shocked the world.
Six urban management officers known as "chengguan" in China were jailed over the weekend following the brutal, violent killing of a watermelon vendor on Wednesday last week. The chengguan's two supervisors were likewise fired from their posts.
The U.S. said that the four bombs dropped at Great Barrier Reef will not explode.
A picture is worth a thousand words. The most shocking pictures are worth much more.
A world survey pegged Indians as the second most racist country of the world with over 43.3 percent Indians not wanting to live next to neighbor not of the same race. But with USA and Australia being pegged as two of the most tolerant countries – is the survey skewed or are we missing the big picture?
Davina Murray, a former Maori Political candidate and lawyer, fell head over heels in love with convicted rapist Liam Reid
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio has expressed his support behind the joint New Zealand-US proposal to apply fishing restrictions in some areas of Antarctic waters. Despite the joint efforts, Ukraine and Russia have blocked the proposal, raising fears that the plan could be shot down.
Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar remains steady just below USD 0.9200 this morning after a relatively uneventful session overnight.
It was one for the books. A yet-to-be-born child has been put up for sale in India, no less than by his or her own mum.
As a country, the statistics are grim – almost half of school children in India are undernourished and have little or no schooling; malnourishment and disease is a stark reality and to etch out a living many take work or begging at tender ages. The mid-day meal was an ambitious project undertaken by the government to feed over 120 million children but it has gone horribly long in Bihar with the deaths of 27 children and several more still critical. This may just be the tip of the iceberg if cor...
It may sound sappy, but the bond between a mother and her children run thicker than blood even. But what happens when mothers turn killers of their own children? One such high profile case has been the brutal murder of Keisha Abraham by her own mother, Kristi. And it wasn't just the murder but the cover-up story that Kristi concocted to get away scot-free that has made her one of Australia’s most hated mothers.
Workers employed as maids and domestic help in Saudi Arabia may now get a day's off from weekly work, following the passage of a new law by the kingdom's Council of Ministers this week.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the U.S. of trapping intelligence whistleblower, Edward Snowden Russia, saying that he is free to go where he wants as soon as he is able to do so.
Labour MP Maryan Street is under pressure to withdraw support for a bill legalising euthanasia. The euthanasia bill is cause for concern for her political party members who think it will only be a distraction in the 2014 elections.
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is set to crack down on wealthy Australians with lifestyle assets as part of its focus for the taxable year ahead. Entrepreneurs and private citizens with yachts and property farms that belong to private corporations but are being enjoyed for personal use will be the target of ATO.
A Chinese man convicted in 2011 of fraud and illegal fund-raising activities had been executed on Friday, and his family was the last to know about it. Although the family could only shrug, no matter how painful it was not to have seen their loved one for the last time, Chinese nationals nonetheless questioned the rather merciless and inhumane final gesture.
Authorities in China have ordered the closure of a museum in Jizhou, a city in the northern province of Hebei, after it was discovered that most of its exhibits on display were fake, counterfeit or knock-off items. Its license had likewise been revoked.
