POLITICS & POLICY

Even if Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott "snubbed" the invitation of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to an international conference in Bali a few weeks ago, the icy diplomatic relations between Canberra and Jakarta have started thawing.

Liberal MP Bill Heffernan successfully showed on Monday the security flaw in Australia's Parliament building when he was able to successfully smuggle a fake pipe bomb and dynamite sticks undetected.

In an apparent play of words, Liberal Senator and Employment Minister Eric Abetz told unemployed Australians not to be picky with employment offers until they get their dream jobs. Rather, he advised them to pick fruits in Tasmania as his was of defending the embattled proposed federal budget.

A Bloomberg report has warned it would cost Australia billions of dollars and thousands of jobs if the Abbott government chooses to scrap the country's renewable energy target. An expert panel is currently reviewing Australia's vow to produce 20 per cent of power from renewable energy sources by 2020.

An early budget shortfall is looming as the Australia's Abbott government struggles with existing and new members of the Senate who said they will not support "backdated" legislation.

Guy Lawrence, new chief executive of Rogers Communications Inc., strongly believed Canada won't be able to support a fourth national wireless carrier because of the gigantic costs involved in maintaining and operating all of them.

U.S. President Barack Obama has taken a surprise spring walk through the National Mall Park while going to a meeting at the Department of Interior and chatted with people from all walks of life.

Exit polls indicate that far-right political parties are all set to establish a strong foothold in major European nations like France, Denmark and Austria.

Pope Francis invited Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli President Shimon Peres to come together with him in his Vatican home.

Embattled Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott may have escaped the fury of students angry at the proposed 2014-15 federal budget when he cancelled last week an appearance at the University of Sydney. However, on Friday, he didn't escape the anger of teachers who heckled him upon his arrival at an event in Hobart.

Harvey Milk, the U.S.'s first openly gay rights activist elected into office, has been given honours in a new U.S. postage stamp.

Bludgeoned by declining transaction mail volumes, Canada Post on Thursday reported a before-tax loss of $27 million for the first quarter of 2014.

Prince Charles has provoked diplomatic dispute by allegedly comparing Russian president Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hilter. The Kremlin has hit back at the British prince, claiming he is “not worthy of a future British monarchy.”

Data from demographers seemed to affirm MP George George Christensen opinion of Aussies just being too whingers about the 2014 budget

Two months after a WTO ruling said that had China violated international trade rules regarding its imposed measures on rare earths exports, the country plans to increase the export taxes of its precious metals and minerals this year, 2014.

China and Russia had just sealed a $400 billion gas deal which experts said could put Australian exports of LNG (liquefied natural gas) in peril.

The Thai military took control of the government on Thursday, May 22. General Prayuth Chan-ocha, the head of the army, announced on national television that it became "necessary to seize power."

The first budget of the Australia's Abbott government was described as the "least popular" and the "most extreme" in 40 years, according to most media accounts and statements. The country's Budget 2014 was released during an unexpected heatwave in May with temperatures measuring 20 degrees. Aside from affecting social policies including the $80 billion budget cuts in health and education, the release of the new budget has destroyed Prime Minister Tony Abbott's claims that Au...

More doubts are surfacing over the propriety of Frances Abbott, the daughter of Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, being awarded a $60,000 scholarship in 2011 by the Whitehouse Institute of Design.

A random letter posted at Newcastle Herald’s opinion page stirs controversy of Australia conspiring in hiding something with its MH370 search

Grieving family members of passengers aboard the ill-fated flight have penned an emotional letter to both Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Najib Razak.

At least 31 people died in China after two sports utility vehicles crashed into the shoppers at a market in Urumqi, capital of restive Xinjiang region, and then threw explosives.

China's very own glaciers off in the Qinghai-Tibet plateau have shrunk by 15 per cent in the last 30 years because of global warming.

Russia is going to provide gas to China for 30 years starting from 2018.

Six Iranians were arrested after they had recorded themselves while dancing and singing. Later they posted the video on YouTube. According to the local police, the people who were arrested had been dancing to the Pharrell Williams chartbuster song “Happy.”

Thousands of university students hit the street in Sydney and Melbourne to voice their protest. Eventually, there was a clash between police and the protesters.

Fresh from his winking controversy on Wednesday, embattled Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott would likely be criticised anew over an admission from his office that his daughter Frances received a scholarship worth $60,000 from the Whitehouse Institute of Design.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott winks while answering a call from a sex line worker

More leaked U.S. intelligence documents have revealed Australian spies were helping their American counterparts to secretly monitor telephone calls across the Philippines. According to the secret documents of the U.S. National Security Agency unveiled by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, the Australian Signals Directorate provides support to an NSA intelligence collection programme MYSTIC.