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Australia's central bank raised its key interest rate Tuesday by a quarter percentage point for the second month in a row, declaring the global downturn over and warning that inflation was set to rise.
Don Lane, an American song-and-dance man who became an enduring television celebrity in Australia known as "The Lanky Yank," died Thursday. He was 75.
Typhoon Parma weakened into a tropical storm but lingered off the northern Philippine coast Monday, causing widespread flooding and landslides that have killed 16 in the country and churning up rough seas that sank a cargo ship off neighboring Taiwan.
Millions of Australians were wiping a film of reddish Outback grit from nearly everything Thursday after the country's worst dust storm in seven decades played havoc with transport systems and sent asthmatics scurrying inside.
Fiji's military regime is using beatings, arbitrary arrests, censorship and intimidation to rule the South Pacific country by fear, Amnesty International alleged Tuesday.
Australia gave final approval Wednesday for a natural gas field development that will export $41 billion in energy to China over 20 years.
Rio Tinto Ltd. said Tuesday it was still unaware of any evidence to justify China's detention of four employees on spying allegations, as the Australian government urged Beijing to speed up the case.
Executives of five Chinese steelmakers are being questioned in a widening espionage probe of four detained Rio Tinto Ltd. employees, news reports said Tuesday, as Australia pressed for details of the case.
The U.S. national security adviser said Thursday that attacks like last year's deadly siege in Mumbai must be prevented and vowed to help Pakistan and India improve their relations to combat the militant threat.
Deep in the tunnel, a small wooden cabinet is the only piece of furniture, a syringe still in its plastic wrapper and a disposable razor scattered on the shelves. A pair of sky-blue pants lies on the rocky ground by the remnants of a threadbare sleeping mat.
A Taliban faction leader who was seen as the chief rival to the militant group's Pakistani head was fatally shot Tuesday, reportedly by one of his own guards. The attack on Qari Zainuddin appeared to be a sign that divisions within the Taliban have broken into the open as they come under military assault.
Two commando-style assaults in Pakistan in the past two weeks show militants can now pierce the iron-fortified gates, concrete barricades and cordons of armed guards that are meant to secure hotels, housing compounds and even police stations across the country.
Debt-laden miner Rio Tinto Ltd. said Friday it remains committed to a $19.5 billion deal with China's Chinalco, pouring cold water on market speculation it might be backing away from the tie-up.
Australia will formally end its military mission in Iraq at the end of July, the armed forces chief announced Monday, bringing the country's involvement in one war to a close even as it prepares to send more troops to Afghanistan.
Australia's Macquarie Group, once nicknamed the millionaires factory for the number of executives it made rich, said Friday its profits halved last year, and slashed 2.5 billion Australian dollars ($1.8 billion) from its asset values because of the global financial crisis.
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd admits he has a reputation as a nerd — but he doesn't seem to mind.
Australia's central bank cut its key interest rate to the lowest level in almost 50 years Tuesday, reinforcing fears the global financial crisis has dragged the country into recession.
The government launched an ambitious plan Tuesday to make Australia one of the world's most wired countries, shunning private bids and announcing that a new state-controlled company would build a 43 billion Australian dollar ($30 billion) network from scratch.
Australia endorsed a U.N. declaration on Friday that recognizes indigenous rights, reversing years of opposition and promising a new era in relations between white Australians and the nation's impoverished Aborigines.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says his government did not intervene in the trial of the journalist who hurled his shoes at former President George W. Bush, but offered little sympathy for the man many consider a hero for his protest.
Police boarded the ship of a militant anti-whaling group and seized videotapes of violent clashes between the activists and Japanese whalers, the group said Saturday.
It was a chance encounter in the charred landscape of Australia's deadly wildfires: A koala sips water from a bottle offered by a firefighter.
Australia may be getting a glimpse of its globally warmed future.
Police charged a man with deadly arson Friday in one of southern Australia's wildfires and put him in protective custody as survivors expressed fury that anyone could set such a blaze.
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