Tag: Australia in world news

Defence and trade have dominated the first leader-level meeting between Tony Abbott and Barack Obama.

There are 90 Australians registered as being in Iraq as the country reels from a full-blown assault from an Islamist terror group.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott and US President Barack Obama have discussed climate change and energy efficiency in their talks at the White House.

Hours after a 14 year-old fires shots at an American school President Barack Obama congratulates Australia on its guns policy.

Japanese leader Shinzo Abe’s decision to resume Japan’s annual arctic whale hunt has Australian environmentalists hot under the collar.

Australia's prime minister has laid a wreath at the National September 11 Memorial in New York City.

As officials prepare for the next step in the search for flight MH370 the Malaysian government confirms it has spent $9.3 million compared to Australia’s $89.9 million spend.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott's meeting with US President Barack Obama will also include Vice-President Joe Biden.

The Australian and Canadian prime ministers have talked down the idea of co-ordinated global action on climate change.

Tony Abbott has joined Prince Charles and British PM David Cameron at a morning service in Normandy on the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

Six Australian D-Day veterans have received France's prestigious Legion of Honour on the 70th anniversary of the historic landing.

Australians rate amongst the happiest people on Earth says the 2014 OECD’s Better Life Index.

The US has received a crash course in Prime Minister Tony Abbott's missteps and controversial comments, thanks to TV show Last Week Tonight.

Tony Abbott has been criticised for talking about the D-Day landings and his aim to scrap the carbon and mining taxes in the same video message.

Search co-ordinators say they have discounted an area of the Indian Ocean, where acoustic "pings" were detected, as being MH370's final resting place.

UN special advisor, and one of the architects behind a UN initiative to end world poverty, Jeffrey Sachs, has sharply criticized the Abbott government’s stance on foreign aid following the federal budget.

The Australian government has expressed concerns about the military coup in Thailand through the Thai embassy in Canberra and with Thai authorities in Bangkok.

CSIRO will be keeping a check on the world’s happiness-levels by combing through thousands of tweets every minute. Considered a breakthrough tool in establishing international moods and a valuable research tool, it comes on the back of a the federal budget blow to the agency's funding.

Children aren’t inherently passive couch potatoes yet 80% of Australian children are getting less than an hour’s physical activity a day, a new study reveals.

DFAT is keeping a close watch on developments in Thailand, and has urged travellers to avoid rallies and protests.

Australia places 9th in Save the Children report while UK takes 25th spot and US drops to no 30.

Tony Abbott has confirmed plans to visit Europe and the US in June and expects to meet Barack Obama.

The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane is entering a new phase, Tony Abbott says, with the focus on the sea floor.

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Debris washed up on a beach in WA's south is being examined by the ATSB, which has played down links to MH370.

The air search for a Malaysia Airlines jet in the Indian Ocean has been suspended because of a tropical cyclone.

More than 32,000 runners, including the Aussie known as the Marathon Man, have completed the Boston Marathon held under tight security.

An oil slick has been found in the MH370 search area and an underwater hunt is commencing, with no hope of more acoustic signals being detected.

Authorities searching for Flight MH370 want to refine the underwater search area before sending down a drone to help find it.

Searchers for MH370 could be on the brink of their biggest breakthrough yet, thanks to a ground-breaking approach to calculating the plane's likely route.

The search for missing flight MH370 has been boosted with the detection of more audio signals, days after two separate acoustic signals were picked up.

Numerous industry groups have raised concerns about Australia's trade deal with Japan, prompting close Labor scrutiny of the agreement.

German engineers have unveiled a "bionic kangaroo" that can hop nearly a metre in a single bound.

A day after Malaysia revealed images of 122 pieces of potential debris from MH370, Thailand has reported 300 objects spotted some 200km away.

There were no reports of MH370 debris recovery and new sightings as dusk fell on Australia's west coast, where the search effort is being coordinated.

Until debris is found and confirmed to be from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight, "the rest is speculation", Defence Minister David Johnston says.

A plane in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight has located more objects in the search area.

The search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is intensifying with new satellite images and visual sightings offering fresh clues into the plane's disappearance.

Australian authorities are quick to warn that debris found floating in the southern Indian Ocean may not belong to missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

Australia will increase its search efforts in the growing global campaign to find missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Prime Minister Tony Abbott says.

Between 30,000 and 40,000 Australian passports go missing every year, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade says.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott doesn't want to discourage Australians from overseas travel following the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines plane.

Two couples travelling together to China on a jet that fell off the radar on Saturday are being described as good friends and great parents.

Bindi Irwin has been criticised for partnering with the Blackfish-plagued US theme park company SeaWorld.

Australia's Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop says Russia must help resolve tensions in Ukraine by withdrawing its troops from the strife-torn country.

Australian missionary John Short has been released after apologising for violating North Korean law by allegedly distributing religious material.

Officials in Bali say a Seven Network programme on Schapelle Corby will be aired "at her own risk."

The first formal meeting of this weekend's G20 event, hosted by Joe Hockey, got under way with a gathering of world business leaders with the B20 business forum focussing on jobs and growth.

An Australian Christian missionary being held by North Korean police faces questioning over religious material he carried.