POLITICS & POLICY

A Papua New Guinea father of four has been beheaded by his own daughter whom he had allegedly raped. However, members of the local community have sworn to protect the 18-year-old woman at all costs, claiming her father deserved to die after all.

China is already set to launch its first carbon trading market this week. Reports said it will be officially opened on Tuesday. Shenzhen, a Special Economic Zone, will be China's first carbon emissions trading market.

Advocates for the welfare of children are urging legislators in New Zealand to revise the country's rape law, citing women are also very much possible sexual predators after reports exploded over the weekend of a pre-teen boy fathering a child from a 36-year old woman.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar traded in a narrow range on Friday night after the volatile moves of the past week as markets look forward this week to clues on the stimulus programs of both the US Federal Reserve and RBA.

Nielsen poll reports Australia Labor Party polls falling three points, while Coalition is up three points.

China's increasing display of aggression in its bid to strengthen territorial claims in the Asia-Pacific region has reached the halls of the U.S. Senate. On Monday, a resolution was filed by some US senators condemning acts of aggression particularly committed by China. The resolution seeks to find an amicable resolution to the territorial disputes in the region.

The challenge for Australian Labor Party leader and Prime Minister Julia Gillard to stand down persists even if Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten has pledged his support for Ms Gillard.

The Philippine National Security Council appealed for additional defence funding on Thursday as 18 Chinese maritime vessels were reported intruding Philippine territory.

Lawmakers from New York City and New York State are already working on laws to regulate away a problem and ban a potential crisis that hasn't not existed yet. This early, lawmakers from both areas have presented bills to keep off 3D printed guns off the streets of New York.

The Immigration Amendment Bill has passed its third reading in the parliament legalising the mass detention of asylum seekers reaching the shores of New Zealand. Covered by the law are those arriving in groups of at least 30 people, and they will be issued a single warrant for six months detention.

The government is determined to make Australia the leading digital economy in 2020. Senator and Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy delivered the government’s long-term vision for Australia.

Coles Supermarkets, an Australian supermarket chain owned by Wesfarmers, is now inside the hot, fiery oven. On Wednesday, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) lodged a legal action before the Federal Courts versus the food retailer against its misleading claims over the bread that it sells in the store.

The European Union has lodged a complaint against China before the World Trade Organization (WTO) against the rising Asian power's tariffs imposed on imported stainless steel pipes.

PRISM is not only in the US but Australia as well. A new secret communications facility courtesy of the Defence Department is designed to manage the deluge of intelligence data the United States shares with Australia.

A man, who so believed his constitutional right had been violated when the prostitute he ordered came in physically unappealing to his taste, had just been slapped with a warning by the police, but only after he barraged Britain's hotline 999 with his complaint.

News Corp's CEO Rupert Murdoch seeks to divorce his third wife Wendi Deng. He also wants joint child custody with Deng.

The Australian dollar breached its highest point in a week in tumultuous markets overnight, with the US Federal Reserve looking less likely to wind back its economic stimulus program.

Shock jock Howard Sattler has been suspended from his long-running radio show after questioning the sexuality of Prime Minister Julia Gillard's partner. The Perth radio host asked a series of "disrespectful and irrelevant" questions concerning hairdresser Tim Mathieson.

It was supposed to be a regular maintenance workday for 49-year-old Stephen Schmidt and 26-year-old Victor Carballo, two New York City window washers, over 500ft high at Hearst Tower Manhattan until their tolerance for high places was put to the test. The men were stuck for 90 minutes on the platform that suddenly collapsed before the rescue team saved them.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has expressed on Friday disappointment at the involvement of senior military officers in the latest sex scandal to hit the Australian Defence Forces in which 17 soldiers filming themselves while having sex with women and then emailed the videos among themselves.

Naughty female Israeli soldiers are back! This time they are not simply posing butt-naked and with only their helmets and military vests on. A shocking video of a group of Israeli Defense Forces has emerged, showing the female soldiers gyrating and sexy dancing, using military-issued rifles as their stripper poles.

If Israel's military was shocked with the circulating photographs of its female soldiers almost naked, the Australian Army has its own sex scandal with male officers filming themselves while having sex with women and then emailing the videos among themselves.

The International Labor Organisation (ILO), in a depressing report of the times, has released figures of child labourers around the world, which have been recorded at a whopping more than 10.5 million.

The protests at Taksim Square and Gezi Park in Istanbul remain unstoppable in its 14th day

The New York State Assembly has just expanded the definition of terms of what rape is all about in its state. Now even unwanted anal and oral sexual assault is considered rape and thus punishable under law.

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