POLITICS & POLICY

Nelson Mandela is responding better to treatment and his family is grateful for all the people who extended support

Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar is slightly stronger this morning, hitting a one-week high of USD 0.9564, following the release of strong local consumer sentiment figures.

Challenged by the police's assessments that arrests can't be carried out based on just inappropriate text messages from a particular phone number, a mother went undercover to nail the child predator who lurked on her child's Facebook account, with only a Target bra ad as a tool.

PM Julia Gillard and Arnold Schwarzenegger calls for Australians to act on Climate Change

As if the reprimand or punishment they received for their unwanted photos on Facebook were not enough, the same set of female Israeli soldiers are on the pounce again, this time purposely recording themselves in a very provocative, sexy, half-nude video showing off their curvaceous and vavavoom booties and bodies. And as with their earlier photos, they likewise released the video for the world to know.

PM Julia Gillard was a subject of a sexist menu served at the Opposition’s fundraiser activity

The Coal Terminal Action Group (CTAG) in New South Wales (NSW) and the Greens Party are accusing the NSW government of altering an environmental study on the impact of dust from coal trains.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard sweetened the deal for Western Australia to support the Gonski plan by adding new funding for the state's schools. The announcement was made as part of her plan to rally the approval of holdout states for school reforms with the deadline just two weeks away.

What with many if not all of the world's nations and citizens fascinated and wanting to work with China and its residents, the country has started to work around plans of setting up overseas university campuses in a bid to further catapult its growing power.

It seemed like there is no stopping the protests in Istanbul as police strike back to the protesters

Hillary Rodham Clinton, former first lady and now Secretary of State joins Twitter.

Russia's Duma or lower parliament has just passed by a whopping 436-0 landslide vote a legislative bill banning gay propaganda that is aimed to people at under 18 years old. The bill effectively passes on to the upper parliament and to Russian President Vladimir Putin before getting into a full-fledged law.

Gun owners as well as weapons control management advocates and kibitzers are again at odds. A freak tragic accident has claimed the life of a Phoenix, Arizona man when his own 4-year old son took hold of a loaded gun and pointed it on his chest, in a surprise visit to the house of his former roommate gone wrong.

Reports from the Attorney-General's department contained information regarding the continued access of Australians' personal information almost 300,000 times or exactly 293,501 times between 2011and 2012.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: It has been an interesting 24 hours, the Australian dollar is higher, after bouncing back from heavy losses that saw it almost hit an three-year low overnight.

Australian Labor Party Prime Minister Julia Gillard suffers backlash as different sectors find her ‘gender war’ strategy desperate

Istanbul protesters, since day 1, were peaceful people comprise of different groups, including women and children, until police comes in the night

Sudan on Sunday threatened to put on hold nine security and economic pacts with South Sudan, including one on vital oil shipments, if its neighbour continues its alleged support for rebel groups.

As the U.S. can't seem to share one voice yet on policies and measures regarding gun control, a nonprofit group has started giving free firearms training and equipping single women and single moms with free shotguns.

Rio Tinto's coal assets in Australia are being eyed by suitors from China and India.

The Australian government has launched a TV ad that warns Afghans of indiscriminate travel by boat to Australia. The government said it will continue to transfer people arriving to Australia to Nauru or Manus Island, with no guarantee of being accepted as a refugee. The add airs on Afghanistan's prime time television.

Headwinds will collide in Russia as parliament mulls to approve a new anti-gay law bill that not only seeks to arrest and imprison people for promoting homosexuality but also impose stringent fines. Foreigners who are members of the LGBT community don't hold international immunity and will be immediately deported.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar has opened below USD0.9500 this morning following some disappointing Chinese data over the weekend.

At 17:38 Beijing time (09:38 GMT) on Tuesday, China will again hurtle into space its newest space mission aboard Shenzhou-10 as part of plans to build and place a permanent Chinese space station above the Earth in the near future.

A Syrian mother grieves for her 15-year-old son shot by rebels before her for blasphemy.

Despite pressure from some Australian Labor Party (ALP) members, Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten is not taking a shortcut to power by withdrawing support for Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

Nelson Mandela remains in the hospital as South Africans pray for him

The Talibans in Afghanistan beheaded two boys in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar for spying, BBC quotes officials.

Iran announced a major breakthrough in its space program on Sunday, setting up its first space center to monitor bodies hovering in the orbit.