In a confusing state of events following the ouster of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, diplomats are calling for a government that represents interests of all political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood.
President Jacob Zuma of South Africa said that he was happy with former President Nelson Mandela's health. He was responding to treatment for lung infection. He added that the improvement comes after "a difficult last few days."
9/11 terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is currently working on a vacuum cleaner and reading Harry Potter
Chinese netizens and human rights groups are fuming again over a latest infanticide case in the world's second largest economy, after a footage from a surveillance camera aired by a local TV station showed a bag containing an unwanted newly born baby girl was thrown out of a building window by her very own mother. And upon landing on the streets, the bag containing the baby was ran over by an unsuspecting driver. It would be a miracle for the baby to survive this ordeal, but no she did not.
Days after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s visit to Indonesia, Jakarta had refused extradition of people smuggler to Australia
Returning Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd found an opportunity to tag Tony Abbott as a doomsday prophesier without any concrete economic plan for the nation's future. Mr. Rudd also called for a productivity pact between government, business and unions in his first major speech before the National Press Club.
Aussie bank robber, ‘Robin Hood Style’, was sentenced in the U.S. to minimum 5 years of prison time
Reports have confirmed the death of one individual as tropical storm Chantal swirled past a southern island in the Dominican Republic – the island of Hispaniola. There was a threat of Chantal converting into a hurricane as it headed for Haiti and the Dominican Republic, while authorities in these two countries and Puerto Rico have warned of flooding that may result in landslides.
Reports say Australian Customs officers have confirmed at least seven asylum seekers jumped off their boats. An Aussie patrol boat assisted them but did not bring them on board, say reports. The asylum seekers were rescued on June 28 by the Royal Australian Navy ship, HMAS Larrakia. The rescue took place 217 nautical miles from Christmas Island.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was disrespectful to a disabled woman, although he might not be aware of his action, according to a disability campaigner. The Australian politician is under fire for patting and scratching a woman in a wheelchair’s hair, which is deemed as a condescending action towards the disabled.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is rocking the world of Social Media
For U.S. Texas lawmaker Rep Steve Stockman, punishing school children just because they are mimicking characters with imaginary weapons and want to save the world is already downright killing their right to play.
Inspired by Julia Gillard, Lisa Clutterham stood for pre-selection for one of Australian Labor Party’s safest seat in Lalor
Corruption and bribery are becoming more widespread globally, said a survey of 114,000 people across 107 countries made by Berlin-based watchdog Transparency International.
Fukushima's highly radioactive groundwater could already be spreading out to the Pacific Ocean, Japan's nuclear watchdog, the Nuclear Regulation Authority said on Wednesday.
Apart from his birthdate, July 11, 2013 could well become one of the unforgettable dates in the life of the juvenile implicated in the December 2012 gruesome gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old paramedical female student in Delhi, India. On July 11, either the juvenile goes scathe-free and resumes life as always or serves time for the next three years at a reformatory home.
More than a million of Australia's youth feel that no political party best represents their needs based on the research study of the Australia Institute. More than 800 respondents between the ages of 17 to 25 participated in the survey and 47 per cent of them believe no political party represents their best interests not even Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's Australian Labor Party which also the same party vacated by former prime minister Julia Gillard.
Concerned for the waning morale of its members, not to mention how the dwindling membership numbers are affecting the organization and its varied activities, the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's biggest crime syndicate, has published a magazine exclusive for its legion. Yep, it is not available on news or magazine stands for everyone to see.
Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian dollar has a wild night. After breaking the 0.9200 range in early London, it fell to below 0.9100 at one
point after the release of the FOMC minutes (around 4:00am). Then another bounce after Bernanke's Q&A session, where his comments were
taken as a little more dovish that expected, has seen it back above 0.9200.
According to recent reports, Edward Snowden, ex-U. S. National Security Agency agency has not formally accepted Venezuela's offer for asylum. The White House says he should return to the U.S.
If you set your mind to something, no one can stop you, the mother told the young heroine in 'Wadjda,' the first feature film shot entirely in Saudi Arabia. Coincidental or not, those words may have also served as the filmmaker's guiding light to plan, execute and finish the movie, for it was a woman, Haifaa Al-Mansour, who actually directed the film amidst the kingdom's many stiff rules against women working in public.
Tony Burke calls for no-advantage policy over asylum seekers coming to Australia
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd backs Nova Peris as the Australian Labor Party's candidate for the Senate in the Northern Territory after local officials approached Rudd and told him the indigenous Olympian can unite the party.
According to a top Kremlin official, Edward Snowden, who leaked sensitive U.S. intelligence information has decided to accept asylum in Venezuela.
Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian dollar holds ground despite International Monetary Fund's China forecast.
The Coalition is offering senior bureaucrats paid bonuses under an Abbott government. The move is seen as an effort by the Opposition to counter the strong performance of Prime Minister and Australian Labor Party leader Kevin Rudd in the latest poll.
New Zealand shows its support to Australia's anti-whaling action against Japan by visiting Hague for the fourth consecutive time. Australia is currently in a court battle against Japan's alleged scientific whale hunting in the Southern Ocean.
Five months after the case hit the nerves of Chinese netizens, the son of a Chinese general is finally going on trial to face the gang rape allegations hurled against him and his friends.
Governor Ibrahim Gaidam has ordered the closure of all secondary schools in the Nigerian north-eastern state of Yobe, following the senseless massacre on Saturday by suspected Islamist extremists in a boarding school that killed at least 42 people, including 22 students.
Google decided to celebrate the 66th anniversary of the Roswell UFO incident in a fun way with the creation of an interactive Google Doodle. The black-and-white Google Doodle video game allows the Internet users to aid an alien search for the missing parts of his spaceship.
