Canberra (Australia)

CANBERRA, May 3 (Reuters) - Australia committed to long-term plans to buy up to 100 Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter jets in a new defence blueprint released on Friday, helping to ease concerns about the future of the controversial stealth fighter....

CANBERRA, May 2 (Reuters) - Agents from South Korea's spy agency the National Intelligence Service (NIS) have tied to secure secret information about Australian trade, triggering the dismissal of an Australian public servant over his links to the group....

* Autralia keeps plan to buy 100 F-35s * Canberra also to buy Asia-first Growlers in new defense strategy * Canberra reassesses military in light of U.S. pivot By Andrea Shalal-Esa and Rob Taylor WASHINGTON/CANBERRA, May 2 (Reuters) - Australia's...

Fifteen minutes in the Australian parliament have become the diatribe heard 'round the world: a blistering speech by Prime Minister Julia Gillard against her chief political foe, excoriating him over what she denounced as sexist attacks....

With scores of people still missing from a boat that capsized Thursday on its way to Australia, the country is agonizing again over how to handle asylum seekers who come there pleading for help....

A national story this week examining possible connections between an education publishing company and trips for state education officials zeroed in on Jessamine County’s schools chief, Lu Young. Young spoke candidly about the matter Tuesday,...

It would be difficult to weave as intricate a web as the international spy thriller that first unraveled in Dubai in January. Yet another sinew has been threaded out of the ongoing, worldwide investigation on the killing of Hamas arms......

Michael Brand has an excellent reputation and rock-solid credentials as an art museum man. That's a good thing, because he's going to need them. On Monday, Brand, 47, was named director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the third person to occupy the...

Janis Ian is back in the news thanks to her provocative memoir "Society's Child" (Tarcher/Penguin, $26.95). Ian, 57, recounts her life as a teenage prodigy and lets readers get a glimpse of how she came up with her hit songs ("At Seventeen," "Society's...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - You've been "superpoked" - and served. A court in Australia has approved the use of Facebook, a popular social networking Web site, to notify a couple that they lost their home after defaulting on a loan. The Australian Capital...

CANBERRA, Australia -- You've been "superpoked" - and served. A court in Australia has approved the use of Facebook, a popular social networking Web site, to notify a couple that they lost their home after defaulting on a loan. The Australian Capital...