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Obama promises to override Congress
President Barack Obama is pushing for green reforms and an overhaul of immigration laws in his State of the Union address.
President Barack Obama is pushing for green reforms and an overhaul of immigration laws in his State of the Union address.
Former Prime Minister Helen Clark has been tipped as a possible candidate for the United Nations' top job, the UK's Guardian reports.
This year, while chairing the G20, Australia is in a unique position to help promote global growth, writes Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Economic growth is the result of global conditions as well as domestic policies.
Boris Johnson was yesterday named Honorary Australian of the Year at an Australia Day awards ceremony in the British capital.
The London barman who attempted a citizen's arrest on Tony Blair has been rewarded with a sizeable bounty for his efforts.
Tony Abbott has vowed turning asylum seekers' boats back to Indonesia, despite brutality claims and warnings of naval conflict.
A majority of voters want NZ to keep out of any conflict that could flare up in the East China Sea.
'I sat where I was told.' A senior Australian politician has brushed off her minor breach of Maori protocol at the opening of a conference at Parliament.
There was one small break in protocol this morning at a major gathering of parliamentary speakers from around the world. And it was by an Aussie in red shoes.
Speakers from around the world will be welcomed at Parliament today in a huge powhiri - but there won't be any women in the front row,
Tony Blair used his diplomatic skill to talk his way out of a humiliating citizen's arrest by a barman in a trendy east London restaurant.
Outraged by unprovoked "king hit" killings, increased rates of alcohol-fuelled violence and soaring hospital admissions, Australians have finally had enough.
A reply to last week's assessment of Ariel Sharon by Sydney writer Irfan Yusuf.
Anti-government protests in Ukraine's capital escalated into fiery street battles with police.
Critics of Olympics say a third of budget is being siphoned off by Putin's friends.
Defector says idealists indoctrinated in Syria to carry out terror attacks in West.
Nauru has effectively suspended its entire legal system, sacking its sole magistrate and barring its Chief Justice from entering the country.
An Italian MP has “blacked up” to deliver a staggering anti-immigration rant in the country’s parliament.
Francois Hollande has made the French presidency look "ridiculous" with his scooter-driven nocturnal trips to visit his mistress, Nicolas Sarkozy was reported as saying.
Who's taking the brunt of the Hollande affair? In a very French twist, it looks like it's the jilted first lady - who's been hospitalised since she found out.
Campaigning for the French presidency less than two years ago, Francois Hollande pledged that in office he would be 'normal'.
Julie Gayet, the actress thought to be having an affair with French President Francois Hollande, is reported to be pregnant.
The FBI "most wanted" mugshot shows a tough, swarthy figure, his hair in a jailbird crew-cut.
Goal to correct education 'left-wing bias' looks to critics like political exercise.
Francois Hollande is facing the toughest hour of his presidency as his partner remains in hospital after news of his alleged affair with a glamorous actress.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott heads to the annual economic summit in Davos, Switzerland, next week to sell the world on Australia's priorities.
The tribulations of Chris Christie are multiplying amid questions about possible misspending of federal aid earmarked for victims of Super-Storm Sandy.
Iran will start dismantling parts of its uranium stockpile next week after details of an interim deal on its nuclear programme were finalised over the weekend.
It is an unlikely setting from which to launch a fightback against Egypt's new military rulers.