If all goes well for him, ousted Egyptian autocrat, Hosni Mubarak could walk free from prison by the end of the week. This after an Egyptian court trying the former president cleared him of corruption charges on Monday.
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key downplayed growing concerns on the latest milk scare causing China to issue another import ban but this time on Westland Milk Products. The Prime Minister said the latest milk scare news has come to New Zealand at the worst possible moment with the government's inquiry on Fonterra, the country's dairy giant that caused an international uproar over botulism fears.
Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar fell back to the low .9100's after trading above 0.9200 yesterday as concerns about the timing of the US Federal Reserve's tapering program weighed on our local currency.
Voting for the Australian Election 2013 starts today for early voters
About 30 inmates escaped from the riot-hit Labuhan Ruku prison in the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Sunday. The incident which occurred in Batubara, Northern Sumatra is the latest in the several cases of prison riots and jail breaks that have happened in the country.
Australia on Friday extended an invitation to Narendra Modi the controversial Chief Minister of the Indian state of Gujarat.
Netizens in China may expect to have faster and a wide-ranging coverage of the country's broadband services by 2020.
The global populace, most specially those living along the world's coastal cities, either pack up and relocate to high grounds as early as now or accept their fate as the intensity of floods currently lapping the Earth will get more severe and damaging in the coming years.
The Prime Minister Slams Opposition
Police authorities in China have detained a fellow police officer following allegations he had hurled a baby girl to the ground to prove to his friends the infant was just a doll.
Two Canadians, a filmmaker and an ER doctor, have been arrested in Egypt after failing to comply with the imposed curfew amidst the violence and protests in the country of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi.
Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar has opened stronger this week after a weak batch of US economic data has cast some doubt about the economic recovery in the US.
After filing for bankruptcy early in August, U.S.-based Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway Ltd. (MMA), the rail company implicated in the Lac-Megantic fuel train disaster, has been found capable to settle insurance responsibilities but only in the short term. Thus, the suspension of its license announced on Thursday has been reversed, but only good until Oct 1.
The big day has finally come for New Zealand's gay couples as they race to become one of the first ones to marry their partners since the marriage equality law took effect on Augt 19. Many gay couples in New Zealand are waiting for their turn to marry since the legalisation of same sex marriage in the country.
Newspoll shows PM Kevin Rudd’s support stinks as he launches hate ad “If he wins, you lose”; Abbott-Rudd gears up for second debate
The Philippine government was forced to suspend offices and classes in 14 provinces, including in the capital Metro Manila, as tropical storm Maring (international name: Trami) maintained its strength and continued to enhance the southwest monsoon early Monday. The state forecasting weather agency has advised the 14 provinces to brace for severe flooding.
In recent reports related to news in Egypt, Canada's embassy in Egypt has shuttered down due to growing violence in the country. Crime in Egypt has killed more than 500 people in the wake of a protest over the ousting of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Morsi, He is also the first democratically elected president after the overthrow of Hosni Mubarack, an ally of former Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat.
Instead of a magnificent roar akin to Lion King's Mufasa or Simba, tourists got the surprise of their lives when a lion in a zoo in eastern China gave off a bark. And in yet another China epic fraud, where phones, toys and car parts can be faked, people still could believe even zoo animals can be faked.
Egypt bloodbath: an Aussie student was stranded in an apartment in Egypt, Aussie-Egyptian protests in streets, death tolls 600
Tepco (Tokyo Electric Power Co), operator of the ill-fated Fukushima nuclear plant that was destroyed in March 2011 by a tsunami that followed a magnitude 9 earthquake, has officially received a full-backing government plan on how to clean-up the crippled plant.
People when making career changes in the hopes of increasing their value often just change employers. But for those radical enough, maybe it's not just a change of office address that's needed but an out of the box shift from one type of profession to another.
Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. on Thursday slammed an order issued by the government of Canada's Quebec stating it has been included among a list of companies financially accountable for the cleanup of Lac-Megantic town which was severely devastated in a train derailment disaster in July.
Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar is steady after a night of heightened volatility in currency markets thinned by the Northern Hemisphere summer.
An Iranian woman that is too sexy, beautiful and young was banned from being a councillor
Chinese people, used as they maybe to babies abandoned or killed by parents because of their government's constrictive one-child policy, still cries out whenever a helpless child is maltreated severely.
A dwindling population rate has forced the government of Russia to plan to close more than 700 schools this 2013. The low numbers in its young population has corresponded to a low number of school age children.
Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu welcomed General Martin Dempsey, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to the Prime Minister’s residence. The Prime Minister recalled that a few months ago he had hosted the President and Commander-in-chief Barak Obama.
Canada's transportation regulator on Wednesday announced it has suspended the license to operate of U.S.-based rail company Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway Ltd. (MMA), following the involvement of one its trains in the July Quebec fuel train disaster.
Damages from the flooding brought by a severe thunderstorm that struck Canada's Toronto on July 8 have been so far dubbed the costliest for the province's insurers.
Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar is a quarter of a US cent higher, helped by some positive European economic data and higher metals prices.
