POLITICS & POLICY

Prime Minister proves Bali Bombing victims that his promises are not made to be broken

A state official of the China's ruling Communist Party was sacked Tuesday after the reported three-day lavish wedding celebration of his son amounting to over 1.6 million yuan ($260,000). Such move amplifies the government's intent to restrict government staff from extravagant lifestyle and curb the notion for graft and corruption.

Australia Government knows about spying program PRISM months before Edward Snowden’s expose’

Canada and Brazil are in a diplomatic stand-off over accusations by Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff that Ottawa attempted to steal state secrets in 2012 from Brazil's mining and energy ministry.

Thankfully the soothsayers in 2011 were wrong. Democracy smiles in Pakistan as the country’s Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani said on Sunday that he would retire at the end of his tenure on Nov. 29.

A series of explosions rocked the Iraqi capital Baghdad early Monday evening, reportedly killing 30 people. Attacks against anti al-Qaeda fighters happened earlier in the day claiming five lives.

'Obama says he won't give an inch,' said a French friend last night. He had just watched the evening news.

Typhoon Fitow, the strongest typhoon to hit China since 1951 that emanated from the east coast, has left at least five people dead, four missing and half a million people affected and displaced by floods.

Canada has decided to shelf its funding on overseas projects that deal with war and rape victims. Christian Paradis, an international development minister, said the government would no longer release any fund for the victims of war-rape or teenage brides who have the access to abortion. He cited this after meeting the Canadian Network, adding the government would still continue its commitment as proclaimed at the G8 summit 3 years back in Muskoka.

China: Tony Abbott met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Bali Indonesia for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)

Prince Harry ends visit to Australia by visiting Special Air Service regiment and marriage humours to Cressida Bonas

Canada will maintain a strategic boycott on Sri Lanka and not participate in the Commonwealth summit next month

An open letter addressed to Prime Minister John Key on Aussie-Kiwi rights equality

Australia's newly rebadged Climate Council is naming this year as the hottest calendar year documented since record keeping began. 2013 is set to have the highest temperatures, passing by far 2005's warm climate. The elevated temperature is cause for concern as local governments are concerned with spontaneous bush fires may erupt should this budding heat wave continue. This is one hot streak that the public should be talking about.

At least 100 people have died, among them children, after a boat containing asylum seekers caught fire and sank off the island of Lampedusa in Italy. The boat carried a total of 500 African asylum seekers.

Mayor Len Brown of Auckland, New Zealand, defended the annual pay of almost $800,000 of senior council executives. In a public meeting, he told those present that they had to “meet the market.”

Eighty-nine-year-old Audrey Tobias faces trial on Thursday for being defiant against the government.

About 65 percent sex workers are abused by cops. This was according to a recent survey conducted by the Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre (TLAC) to 80 Johannesburg-based sex workers in South Africa. The study revealed 52 of them were abused in different forms.

International Fleet Review starts Friday, Oct 4, 2013.

It was an eye for an eye. Two European men and one local Madagascar man were lynched and burned on Thursday by an angry mob off Nosy Be island for allegedly killing an eight-year-old for his genitals. The latter has been alleged as a victim of human trafficking by the three.

Anyone looking for evidence of the impending total failure of the U.S. government need look no further than the shenanigans taking place right now in Washington D.C.

A government shutdown is when a government discontinues providing services that are not considered "essential". The services which are like value added services for the population and entertaining to them in vital sense.

A joint team of international chemical weapons inspectors has arrived in Syria to being the daunting process of dismantling and destroying the country’s chemical weapons stockpile and manufacturing facilities.

Iran’s conciliatory approach at the UN and with the U.S. seems to be bearing some fruit. Notwithstanding Israeli opposition at the UN General Assembly annual debate on Tuesday, reports suggest Western governments are thinking about allowing Iran to continue some uranium enrichment. It could pave the way for smoother talks and better meeting of minds. The move comes after Iran said it wants to end its deadlock with Western powers, on the issue of alleged nuclear weapons within the next six month...

Thirteen activists associated with the Greenpeace organisation have been slapped with charges of piracy in Russia, following an ocean protest against oil drilling in the Arctic. This as Greenpeace activists in Germany chained themselves to fuel pumps at Gazprom petrol stations to protest the latest action against the illegally detained comrades.

A social networking war is currently going on between the citizens of the Philippines and a woman named Devina Dediva who enraged the Filipinos after making racist comments on Facebook about Miss World 2013 winner Megan Young. On Facebook, British native Malcolm Conlan’s open letter to Devina Dediva is currently being shared where he defended the Filipinos from her rude and unnecessary comments and urged her to apologise.

Extinction of koalas is now beginning to unfold as another casualty of the burgeoning global climate change, which has dried up too many trees.

The sentencing of a prominent U.S.-trained human rights lawyer to 30 months in prison in a tax evasion case by a Hanoi court on Wednesday could hit U.S.-Vietnam relations. Le Quoc Quan, 42, is one of Vietnam’s best-known activist-blogger. Following the sentencing, the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi issued a statement accusing Vietnam of using tax laws for political ends and urging the government to release other political prisoners.

If marijuana will be legalized in Israel, it may be extremely beneficial for its economy. This was according to a recent study conducted by the Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies.