Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi endured a NATO air strike but with his youngest son and three grandchildren killed on a Tripoli house on Sunday, according to a government spokesman.
Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan said the new budget to be presented next week is seen to create some 500,000 jobs within two years and reduce the country's unemployment rate to 4.5 percent.
An American group opposed to male circumcision has claimed to have gathered sufficient number of signatures that calls for a ban against the practice of circumcision in San Francisco as a ballot measure for November elections.
A city east of the Philippine capital Manila is trying to set a world record for the most number of circumcised boys on May 7. The city government of Marikina has announced its "Tule (Circumcision) Party" to highlight the event.
A two-day meeting of climate change finance negotiators in the United Nations sponsored summit in Mexico City resulted in little progress for the Transnational Committee (TC) of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the fund that will help poor and developing nations cope with the adverse effects of climate change.
The Philippines’ Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez resigned on Friday amid a swirl of controversy and criticism in her office’s handling of big corruption cases and the agency's allegedly low conviction rate.
Australia's internet service providers are wary that the planned National Broadband Network (NBN) may push up their prices much to the dismay of customers.
The much-awaited Royal Wedding is just hours away and billions of people are dying to see the members of the Royal Wedding party who will be joining Prince William and Kate Middleton as they walk the aisle at Westminster Abbey.
The NSW Government has taken action to stop low paid workers from receiving pay rises to adequately reflect the value of their work, instead of recognising the valuable work of women in the community sector, the Australian Services Union (ASU) claims.
United States President Barack Obama released his detailed birth certificate as he slammed lingering rumors that he was not American born as distressing “silliness”.
Australia has agreed to intensify military cooperation with China, in a bid to boost ties, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said today.
Senator Doug Cameron, Labour's Left, has urged the Australian government to "pedal harder" in processing asylum seekers to help ease budding tensions in detention centres.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has called for an increased defence cooperation with Beijing as she wraps up her first visit to China. Gillard said a closer military ties with China would promote good relations and maintain regional peace and prosperity.
The higher-than-expected inflation rates in Australia gives the central bank more reason to increase interest rates, analysts said.
According to News Ltd, the Labor Department sought to "hide" the total loss by leading the state Treasury to produce hundreds of millions of dollars from rail grants.
Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard has remained firm on her North Korean counterpart's military programme especially its nuclear weaponry.
The public is asked to join in the naming of China's first space station set for launch in year 2020.
Plunder charges were filed Tuesday against former Philippine president Gloria Arroyo before the Department of Justice.
Record increases in food prices are again threatening to push millions of people in Asia’s developing countries into extreme poverty, a report released Tuesday in Manila by the Asian Development Bank warned.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is walking on tight rope as she pursue both trade and diplomacy issues in China as she meets her counterparts Prime Minister Wen Jiabiao and President Hu Jintao today.
Refuge seekers who perpetrated criminal offenses in confinement are to be denied permanent visas.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard is set to prod China on human rights and to enhance trade with the world's second biggest economy. These are her goals as she talks with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and President Hu Jintao in Beijing on Tuesday.
While Armidale in New South Wales will become the first Australian city to enjoy the light-speed benefits of the National Broadband Network any time now, thousands of Australians in the rural areas will continue to endure worse Internet connection services through the years.
It was all sealed up and ready to be delivered but the invitation to the Royal Wedding for the Libyan ambassador based in Britain has stayed at the Palace, and never reached his doorstep.
Four days before the big day at London’s historic Westminster Abbey and no invitations have yet to reach the doorsteps at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and this means that U.S. President Barack Obama and the First Lady are not attending the Royal Wedding.
Australia's proposed $230-million rare earths production facility in the Pahang state in Malaysia needs further environmental assessment, the Malaysian government said.
The continued unrest in Bahrain has prompted Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa of Bahrain to turn down the Royal Wedding invitations sent by the Royal family.
Amid restrictions imposed by more countries on imports of Japanese products, Japan sets out to brief importers abroad on measures to ensure the safety of Japanese farm and fishery items.
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong says that instead of grabbing jobs away from locals, foreign workers are actually helping grow the economy.
Treasurer Wayne Swan says investment from the revived resource sector is now gaining momentum but it is expected to produce lesser revenue than the last boom it had.
