Australia

IT'S the proof we've been waiting for that the housing boom is back - at dinner tables across the country talk is returning to the old conversation chestnut ... property.

SYDNEY — Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd described relations with China as challenging Thursday, after a series of bruising rows strained diplomatic ties between the major trading partners.

SYDNEY — Australia on Thursday passed a clean energy law requiring the country to produce 20 percent of its power from renewable sources by 2020 in move that could draw billions of dollars of green investment.

THERE is the ghostly man who walks through the floor, a silent horse drawn carriage out the front and down the road a baby cries at night. Anyone who claims there is no spirit left in the New South Wales Parliament should try spending a night ther...

An official investigation into Australia's wildfires earlier this year has called for sweeping changes to the warning system and evacuation policy.

China cancelled a senior minister's visit to Australia earlier this month in anger at Canberra's decision to grant a visa to an exiled Uighur activist, Australian officials have said.

An Australian high court ruled Friday that a quadriplegic man has the right to refuse food and water and can be allowed to die, a rare legal finding that some see as a major victory for right-to-die campaigners.

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Friday he had no intention of calling a snap election, despite parliament's rejection of his government's promised plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Australia's Senate today voted to reject legislation that would have curbed the amount of greenhouse gas pollution the country emits, but the government said it would resurrect the bill later this year.

Rhonda Wyllie and Melissa Karlson, the widow and daughter of an Australian property tycoon, have said that they are "perplexed" by reports linking their luxury yacht to the Madeleine McCann investigation.