The Australian government is hoping to repeal carbon tax by next week despite the chaos in the Senate. After further talks with the Palmer United Party, the government is preparing to bring back the bill to the lower house on July 14.
The Pentagon may ask U.S. President Barack Obama to launch a drone attack on Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the spearhead of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
Pregnant asylum seekers in Christmas Island pleaded with doctors to let their children be adopted by Australian families. According to reports, the pleas for adoption happened four months ago as asylum seeker women began to worry for the future of their children.
“She likes to dress as a fairy,” says a father of an asylum seeker, who could only be with his child through imagination.
The United States and China on Tuesday entered into a deal, vowing to reduce their respective greenhouse gas emissions, even as China reiterated it should not be subjected to the full implementation and extent of the rules.
The United States and China on Tuesday entered into a deal vowing to reduce their respective greenhouse gas emissions, even as China reiterated it should not be subjected to the full implementation and extent of the rules.
The Arctic Ocean will soon be seeing more and more liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipping carriers plying its waters. Japan's Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. on Wednesday announced it targets to use the unchartered territory to move its LNG Russia to its clientele in Europe and Asia.
Huu-ay-aht First Nations (HFN), a Canadian aboriginals group, has allowed the development of a $30 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant project in Vancouver Island.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has declared his government will not be subjected to "moral blackmail" after reports of attempted suicide by asylum seekers in Christmas Island. According to a Fairfax report, dozens of refugee mothers have tried to commit suicide because they think their children have a better luck in going to Australia without them.
The reports on mothers’ attempting suicide and harming themselves are “harrowing” but those are just “moral blackmail”, says Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Pressure from the Roman Catholic spiritual pontiff to clean its coffers and get its act together had taken a toll on the 2013 profits of embattled Vatican Bank, more formally known as the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR).
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key is confident Malaysia will send back the accused diplomat Muhammad Rizalman bin Ismail. Although the government has not yet received any update, Mr Key assured reporters that Malaysia will comply with New Zealand's request to return Rizalman so he can face charges.
Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar has traded overnight above .9400 as the latest local business confidence and conditions were better than expected.
The UK government has announced on Tuesday, July 8 to erect a statue of Mahatma Gandhi, India’s “Father of Nation”, opposite the House of Parliament.
While Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott may have won crossbenchers to his side to rush the repeal of the Labor government's carbon tax, he was condemned in the international arena for his move to remove the tax.
Australia has admitted having 153 asylum seekers from Sri Lanka in custody as it plans sending them back to their home land after winning the High Court case against it.
After Australia returned a group of asylum seekers to Sri Lanka, the country has been accused of breaking international refugee convention. A group of 41 Sri Lankan asylum seekers had attempted to reach Australia by boat. The refugees' attempts to seek asylum in the country did not succeed as they were intercepted and handed over the Sri Lankan navy.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced recognition of same-sex marriage among couples at its secretariat
More than 8,000 children under the age of 18 years old had been accused of sexual offences against other children in the United Kingdom in the last two years alone, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children said.
As New Zealand awaits the return of the accused Malaysian diplomat, Malaysian doctors of Muhammad Rizalman bin Ismail has warned he may not be "well enough" to travel. According to reports, Rizalman has been in the hospital since July 1 and he was supposed to be released soon after his medical tests.
The Japan Meteorological Agency has issued what could be its highest alert to warn residents of Okinawa and the rest of the country to relocate to higher grounds in anticipation of massive wind damages and localized flooding brought by super typhoon Neoguri.
Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar is sitting comfortably around the mid-high 0.93's and it will be hard to see us break out of this until the jobs numbers on Thursday.
At least three people have died, among them a newborn boy, after a strong 6.9-magnitude shook the border between Guatemala and Mexico on Monday. The temblor injured 32 others, damaged dozens of buildings, toppled down power lines as well as triggered landslides.
The newbie senator of the Australian Parliament, Jacqui Lambie from the Palmer United Party, finally met on Monday the man she just described as a psychotic politician, Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott's Direct Action policy may be more expensive than buying carbon permits. Australia's Climate Change Authority has advised the Abbott government that it would be "cheaper" to achieve the country's carbon emissions reduction target by purchasing permits overseas as part of climate change policy.
U.S. President Barack Obama is gay and his wife Michelle is a transgender, according to Joan Rivers.
Residents of Japan's Okinawa are being advised to take all necessary precautions as Neoguri has strengthened to become the world's first super typhoon of 2014.
Crews of power supply utility firms on Monday are racing to restore electricity to more than 250,000 homes and businesses groping in the dark in Atlantic Canada after tropical storm Arthur lashed through the area on Saturday morning.
Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar opens this morning little changed from Friday's levels as trading was very quiet due to the US Independence Day holiday.
New Zealand's booming economy has attracted more migrants to the country. It also gave citizens overseas to return home. As a result, the country is currently experiencing its strongest influx of immigrants in more than 10 years.
