POLITICS & POLICY

Cuban leader, Raul Castro has expressed his support for granting asylum to U.S Fugitive Edward Snowden, who has fled the country after exposing sensitive information about a surveillance programme.`However, he has not offered details on a safe passage or if Cuba would offer refuge to the embattled former National Security Agency contractor

Australian Labor Party leader and second-time Prime Minister Kevin Rudd continues to reap the benefit of his return to power with the latest poll as proof that he is indeed a threat to Opposition leader Tony Abbott's ambition to be Australia's 29th prime minister.

Protests from civil service employees, such as firefighters and union activists came to life after a 41 percent pay hike for MPs after Queensland acting premier Jeff Sweeney announced it a week ago.

For three days now, five Indonesians have managed to hold on for life perched atop on one of the trees in Gunung Leuser National Park located on Sumatra Island. Not that they got lost in the wilderness. The men scrambled for refuge among the tree's top branches to risk being devoured by the giant Sumatran tigers down below.

The Australian dollar decline is seen to improve manufacturing and bolster export returns as global prices for coal and iron ore continue to slump. Treasurer Chris Bowen says that despite the weakening Australian dollar, it still provides some level of support for buyers. Bowen says this is a good thing for the Australian economy.

Kiwis appeal for an immigration law change that will promote equal rights for Kiwis living in Australia

About 1,300 containers of New Zealand meat exports were again held up by Chinese customs barely two months after the Kiwi government made a mistake in the issuance of their export certification. This time the cause of the delay was China's new sudden change of rules.

President Evo Morales of Bolivia has made a move signalling that the U.S embassy in his country be shut down after an embarrassing situation when he was refused entry into European air space. The incident was brought on by suspicion that Edward Snowden, wanted by the U.S. for charges of espionage, was on board his plane.

In just a span of two hours apart, two massive earthquakes measuring 7.2 and 6.8 shook Papua New Guinea on early Monday morning. No tsunami alert warning has yet been issued.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar fell on Friday night after US non-farm payrolls rose more than expected and the market began to expect the Fed to begin their tapering of monetary stimulus earlier than previously thought.

Facebook party organizers might face jail time if party becomes uncontrollable says Queensland proposed law.

The Australian Labor Party ran the first electoral campaign on Sunday night, even ahead of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announcing a new date for the federal election.

After the Australian Labor Party held a leadership caucus on Thursday night, June 27, the top two rivals for the position of prime minister was narrowed to ALP new leader Kevin Rudd and Opposition leader Tony Abbott. However, Aussie voters should not yet rule out mining billionaire Clive Palmer.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has been accused of treachery by a women's rights group for the way he treated his predecessor, Julia Gillard. A full-page ad in four major Australian newspapers was published today praising former first female prime minister Gillard for her achievements while in office.

Close to a year after it finally received the temporary operating license needed to fire up its rare earths processing plant in Malaysia, Australian miner Lynas Corp has finally submitted its plans for a permanent disposal facility (PDF). This could essentially serve as one of the remaining requirements needed to secure a permanent license to operate the plant.

Contradicting reports on Nelson Mandela’s real condition emerged as court documents leaked.

Knowing that death will eventually take her, only it came sooner, a Chinese grandmother, in what could be one final act of unconditional love, opted to make her body as a human shield to protect her 15-month-old granddaughter from being squashed by a landslide that overthrew their house in China's Sichuan Province.

He may never know what got into the mind of the lady passenger who accused him of raping her inside his cab, but Mohammed Asif would forever remain grateful how his phone app was able to save him from her wrongful accusation.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd did not focus on the more apparent issue on asylum seekers

Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar has traded higher after announcements from the Bank of England (BoE) and the European Central Bank (ECB) pushed major European share markets higher.

NBN Co meets the June 30 rollout target but failed to deliver satisfactory service

Anti-apartheid icon and former South African President Nelson Mandela's deteriorating health has created an unusual interest among residents. While his relatives are bickering where to bury him in the event that he dies, others are snapping up books and other mementoes of the former national leader.

Cambodian elections are up at month's end and the U.S. Government is receiving pressures to cut its aid if the electoral process in the Southeast Asian nation is deemed unclean.

South Korea is trying to reach out to North Korea to discuss the re-opening of the Kaesong industrial complex that is jointly operated by the two countries.

How often has it been said that dogs are always a man's best friend. In this case, even stray dogs can help save someone from sure danger, as what a 12-year-old Argentina girl later discovered for herself when she got saved from a potential rapist.

A U.S. California man has been awarded by a Los Angeles Superior Court jury a whopping $58 million two years after his brutal attack in a bar that left a visibly damaged skull, not to mention impaired his ability to speak.

A Dallas, Texas gym teacher named Dale Irby caught the attention of social media Web sites when pictures of him surfaced wearing the same clothes for 40 years in the school yearbook. The 63-year-old Prestonwood Elementary school teacher unintentionally wore the same collared disco shirt with V-necked brown tank top in two successive yearbook photos, and his wife, Cathy, dared him to do it again for the third time.

Prime Minister Kevin faces pressure as environment groups accused him of cutting the “green tape”

Saudi Arabia has started to aggressively push forward its renewable energy programmes by installing 70 stations across the oil-rich nation that will measure the potential for energy production from sun, wind and geothermal sources. The kingdom targets to become solar-powered efficient and capable by 2032.