POLITICS & POLICY

Acting Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said preliminary report about the missing MH370 will be release Thursday

LGBT rights, particularly in India, has taken center stage in a Bollywood-inspired video released no less than by the United Nations.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced on Tuesday a 30 per cent increase in the country's minimum wage. The salary hike is on the heels of a 10 per cent increase in January in a bid to close the gap with the country's soaring inflation rate of 59.3 per cent.

In Canberra, a breakfast made of bacon and eggs, muffin and tea would cost $11,000. The whopping bill is because breaking bread with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott comes with the breakfast package.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's climate change policies may cost as much as $40 billion by 2020.

A Report from the Australian Crime Commission found that illicit drugs across the country is now at records high

Investment firm executive Bill Browder, who is also a human rights activist, wants Canada to ban Russians who took active participation in torturing and “killing” a Russian tax lawyer five years back in 2009.

If former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard had the carbon and mining taxes as partly the cause of her unpopularity and political downfall, in the case of incumbent PM Tony Abbott, who has been on the job for only 7 months, it would probably be his proposed deficit tax.

Australia has not been productive from 2013 to 2014. This was according to the 2014 report of the Productivity Commission released by Chairman Peter Harris.

Relatives and families of the 683 people sentenced to death by an Egyptian court warned the government Egypt faces a probable civil war uprising if it continues with its mass trial and collective executions.

A day after tornadoes killed 14 and ripped up homes in Arkansas and other states, the U.S., particularly the state of Mississippi and the U.S. Southeast, have been barraged anew with fresh storms that further damaged hundreds of homes, downed power lines and toppled trees.

To protest the greater access offered by the Philippine government to the U.S. under a 10-year agreement signed on Monday, militant groups in Manila burned the effigy of visiting U.S. President Barack Obama in an afternoon rally.

Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou, yielding to national pressure, had ordered the suspension of the construction of what could have been the country's fourth nuclear power plant.

While in a press conference in Canberra, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said the Australia-led search for the missing MH370 is entering a new phase as operatives focused on a larger underwater area.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: Markets remain orderly despite more Ukrainian tensions.

The annual Holocaust Memorial Day has started in Israel while national leader is going to participate in the intense celebration.

A breach of royal protocol was committed on Thursday in Australia when someone touched Prince William on his back. The violation was even caught by photographers, resulting in the image being published by major newspapers in their print and online editions.

The cat lovers now have a tangible reason to celebrate as Purina One builds its first pop-up cat café in New York City where everyone can drink and dine with the lovely felines. Considered to be America's first pop-up cat café, Purina One seems to have really popped up just in time before anyone else in North America does.

New Zealand Labour has promised to give all war veterans pension. Labour Leader David Cunliffe announced at Avondale Returned and Services Association in Auckland that the party will adopt a recommendation by the Law Commission to make veterans eligible for veteran's pension.According to the Work and Income website, war veterans who are over 65 years old and have a qualifying rate of disablement are entitled to a pension. Veterans under 65 who served in the war but had become injured or disab...

Australia has fallen from 9th post to 18th place in the 2014 Global Information Technology Report.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar consolidated overnight, following the sharp fall it recorded in response to yesterday’s softer CPI report and is currently trading around USD 0.9285.

The Ukraine government has relaunched an "Anti-Terrorism Operation" to deal with the "Pro-Russian" separatists causing tension in its eastern borders.

Susan Ryan, Age Discrimination Commissioner of Australia, warned on Wednesday that a federal government proposal to raise the pension age to 70 from 67 would be bound to fail if Aussie companies continue to refuse to hire workers who are 50 years old and above.

Aussies are arriving in Gallipoli for the Anzac day; Tony Abbott will be joined by Prince Charles, William and Kate

English tabloids had accused the Australian media of invading Duke and Duchess’ privacy with candid pictures published

The Canadian middle class have been found to be now the world's richest in that segment, a report on incomes published on Tuesday in the New York Times said.

The U.S. has warned Russia to immediately act on Ukraine's crisis a few days ago. The American government hastens Russia by giving it only a short time frame to act on the unrest.

Recently, newly appointed Crimea Prosecutor General Natalia Poklonskaya has become an Internet sensation with her attractive looks and "kawaii" (Japanese term for cuteness) appeal to the public.

Australia has allotted more than $12 billion from the national coffers for the purchase of 58 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, as the Abbott government jacks up the country's air combat power and resources to a total of 72 fighter jets by 2020.