POLITICS & POLICY

Two Chinese government officials tasked to enforce the country's one-child policy had been stabbed to death by a disgusted father after he was told he can no longer register his fourth and youngest child until he pays the fines for breaking the law.

Julian Assange, through a video link announced Wikileaks Party’s candidates for the coming federal election

Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar benefited from a fall in the US Dollar against all currencies in the G-10 basket, after comments suggesting the Fed might not raise rates, even if the unemployment rate falls below 6.5%.

The set used in the 1990s movie Jurassic Park would look like a miniature model when Australian mining magnate Clive Palmer builds the world's largest dinosaur park.

In a bid to reverse the negative repercussion of the Carlos Danger sexting scandal on his campaign to become New York City mayor, former Congressman Anthony Weiner blamed his behaviour on his troubled marriage to wife Huma Abedin.

Marte Deborah Dalelv, the Norwegian woman slapped with a 16-month jail time in Dubai for reporting rape but later pardoned by the Emir, has finally come home to the waiting arms of her loved ones in her native homeland.

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott and immigration spokesman Scott Morrison announced military’s involvement in the boat-riding asylum seekers

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has only scathing remarks regarding Opposition Leader Tony Abbott’s accusations. Mr. Abott had attacked Australia Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for telling Mr. O’Neill that he has the power to decide where the foreign aid budget will be spent.

Australia’s Foreign Minister, Bob Carr, has sent a letter to Britain’s foreign office, stating its suggestions for inclusion in the European Union. The foreign office has been posted the letter on its website.

There were two interesting stories in Taiwan-based media company, WantChinaTimes.com, that provides more details of excesses of Chinese officials, quoted by Business Insider. One form of bribe, according to a July 17 post of Zhou Fang on his microblog, is the holding of parties where the Chinese officials pay an $815 (about 5,000 yuan) admission for sex orgies. Besides the standard sex with women, these parties feature the male guests drinking breast milk from young nursing mothers.

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