According to a top Kremlin official, Edward Snowden, who leaked sensitive U.S. intelligence information has decided to accept asylum in Venezuela.
Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian dollar holds ground despite International Monetary Fund's China forecast.
The Coalition is offering senior bureaucrats paid bonuses under an Abbott government. The move is seen as an effort by the Opposition to counter the strong performance of Prime Minister and Australian Labor Party leader Kevin Rudd in the latest poll.
New Zealand shows its support to Australia's anti-whaling action against Japan by visiting Hague for the fourth consecutive time. Australia is currently in a court battle against Japan's alleged scientific whale hunting in the Southern Ocean.
Five months after the case hit the nerves of Chinese netizens, the son of a Chinese general is finally going on trial to face the gang rape allegations hurled against him and his friends.
Governor Ibrahim Gaidam has ordered the closure of all secondary schools in the Nigerian north-eastern state of Yobe, following the senseless massacre on Saturday by suspected Islamist extremists in a boarding school that killed at least 42 people, including 22 students.
Google decided to celebrate the 66th anniversary of the Roswell UFO incident in a fun way with the creation of an interactive Google Doodle. The black-and-white Google Doodle video game allows the Internet users to aid an alien search for the missing parts of his spaceship.
A U.S. consular official posted in Guyana has been sacked following allegations he had been selling visas for sex and money in what was believed to be a massive human trafficking operation. The U.S. State Department has confirmed it is now currently investigating the claims.
A confidential NSA map exposed four additional Australian sites aiding the U.S. for its spying activities
Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar has recovered back above USD0.9100 overnight, after a fairly quiet trading session Monday.
The recent Newspoll published Monday showed that Australian Labor Party is the preferred party over the Coalition
Cuban leader, Raul Castro has expressed his support for granting asylum to U.S Fugitive Edward Snowden, who has fled the country after exposing sensitive information about a surveillance programme.`However, he has not offered details on a safe passage or if Cuba would offer refuge to the embattled former National Security Agency contractor
Australian Labor Party leader and second-time Prime Minister Kevin Rudd continues to reap the benefit of his return to power with the latest poll as proof that he is indeed a threat to Opposition leader Tony Abbott's ambition to be Australia's 29th prime minister.
Protests from civil service employees, such as firefighters and union activists came to life after a 41 percent pay hike for MPs after Queensland acting premier Jeff Sweeney announced it a week ago.
For three days now, five Indonesians have managed to hold on for life perched atop on one of the trees in Gunung Leuser National Park located on Sumatra Island. Not that they got lost in the wilderness. The men scrambled for refuge among the tree's top branches to risk being devoured by the giant Sumatran tigers down below.
The Australian dollar decline is seen to improve manufacturing and bolster export returns as global prices for coal and iron ore continue to slump.
Treasurer Chris Bowen says that despite the weakening Australian dollar, it still provides some level of support for buyers. Bowen says this is a good thing for the Australian economy.
Kiwis appeal for an immigration law change that will promote equal rights for Kiwis living in Australia
About 1,300 containers of New Zealand meat exports were again held up by Chinese customs barely two months after the Kiwi government made a mistake in the issuance of their export certification. This time the cause of the delay was China's new sudden change of rules.
President Evo Morales of Bolivia has made a move signalling that the U.S embassy in his country be shut down after an embarrassing situation when he was refused entry into European air space. The incident was brought on by suspicion that Edward Snowden, wanted by the U.S. for charges of espionage, was on board his plane.
In just a span of two hours apart, two massive earthquakes measuring 7.2 and 6.8 shook Papua New Guinea on early Monday morning. No tsunami alert warning has yet been issued.
Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar fell on Friday night after US non-farm payrolls rose more than expected and the market began to expect the Fed to begin their tapering of monetary stimulus earlier than previously thought.
Facebook party organizers might face jail time if party becomes uncontrollable says Queensland proposed law.
The Australian Labor Party ran the first electoral campaign on Sunday night, even ahead of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announcing a new date for the federal election.
After the Australian Labor Party held a leadership caucus on Thursday night, June 27, the top two rivals for the position of prime minister was narrowed to ALP new leader Kevin Rudd and Opposition leader Tony Abbott. However, Aussie voters should not yet rule out mining billionaire Clive Palmer.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has been accused of treachery by a women's rights group for the way he treated his predecessor, Julia Gillard. A full-page ad in four major Australian newspapers was published today praising former first female prime minister Gillard for her achievements while in office.
Close to a year after it finally received the temporary operating license needed to fire up its rare earths processing plant in Malaysia, Australian miner Lynas Corp has finally submitted its plans for a permanent disposal facility (PDF). This could essentially serve as one of the remaining requirements needed to secure a permanent license to operate the plant.
Contradicting reports on Nelson Mandela’s real condition emerged as court documents leaked.
Knowing that death will eventually take her, only it came sooner, a Chinese grandmother, in what could be one final act of unconditional love, opted to make her body as a human shield to protect her 15-month-old granddaughter from being squashed by a landslide that overthrew their house in China's Sichuan Province.
He may never know what got into the mind of the lady passenger who accused him of raping her inside his cab, but Mohammed Asif would forever remain grateful how his phone app was able to save him from her wrongful accusation.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd did not focus on the more apparent issue on asylum seekers
