In his first major economic policy speech since taking over late last year, the Prime Minister described inflation as the "most pressing economic challenge Australia is facing and called the problem as one his administration "inherited" from the previous John Howard government.
Labour party leader Kevin Rudd, who swept to power nine days ago routing the coalition led by Conservative prime minister John Howard, was on Monday officially sworn in as Australia's 26th prime minister.
Bush said he would not have committed US troops if he had not been convinced the objective was achievable.
The Australian Monash University and Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai will set up the first Indo-Australian Research Institution at the Powai campus.
A revised air services agreement between India and Australia, aimed at designating as many airlines as the two nations wished for, was approved by the Union Cabinet a day ahead of Australian Premier John Howard's visit.
Australia's opposition leader Kevin Rudd on Friday said he would "tear up" any nuclear deal with India if he is elected to power this year.
The storm over snubbing of Dalai Lama, observers feel, is likely to adversely affect the politicians standing in the election this year as it is being seen as another act of bowing down to the Chinese agenda.
The Australian government and 14 moderate Islamic leaders agreed on Tuesday to fight terror together.
Murali's presence in Australia had been in doubt ever since since Australian Prime Minister John Howard branded him a "chucker".
China has condemned Prime Minister John Howard's plan to meet the Tibetan spiritual leader, and has called on future visits to be banned.
The former Australia captain will lead the team in a one-day game against the tourists at Manuka Oval in Canberra on January 28.
The ban was imposed this week among guards and attendants at the building in Canberra, Australian media reported.
Cheney said that the US was working with it allies to persuade Iran to give up its nuclear weapons programmes, and that it was Washington's preference for that to happen peacefully.
The Memorandum of Understanding was signed in the presence of visiting Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
The US Senate is expected to decide this week to dump such a policy and pursue a new nuclear cooperation deal with India.
Australia has so far refused to sell uranium to India because it has not signed the non-proliferation treaty.
An outpouring of grief followed the Olympic 400 metres freestyle champion's disqualification at the Olympic trials.\n\n
"Americans received a sobering reminder on Saturday of the threat that political violence poses to our democracy," The New York Times said.
The off-spinner has been named in a 16-man squad to tour Australia this month.
Senator John Kerry continued his unexpected triumph in the Democratic race to challenge US President George W Bush by pulling off yet another victory in the New Hampshire primary on Monday.
'I think of that young baby, still in her diapers, balancing with her arms held up by her mother, a Tamil woman wearing a salwar kameez and a dupatta, seated on a stoop,' recalls Aseem Chhabra.
Former England soccer captain John Terry was found not guilty on Friday of racially abusing Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand during a Premier League match last October.
With 88 per cent of the precincts reporting, Kerry had 37.8 percent, Edwards 32.2 per cent, Dean 18.1 per cent and Gephardt 10.6 per cent.
Patriotism, politics, pain, it's all there on OTT this week.
Presiding over the third Atal Bihari Vajpayee memorial lecture that was delivered by former Singaporean diplomat Bilahari Kausikan in New Delhi, Jaishankar also hailed Vajpayee's stint as an external affairs minister, and his role in strengthening India's ties with the United States and Russia.
In a surprise move, Australia's former prime minister Kevin Rudd on Wednesday retired from politics saying "it really is time for me to zip", months after being dethroned by conservative leader Tony Abbott.
Cricket Australia has roped in Muttiah Muralitharan as spin consultant ahead of Australia's tour to Sri Lanka.
Superheroes, supervillains, biopics, thrillers, teenage dramas, shaadis, Sukanya Verma offers an all-you-can-eat buffet on OTT this long weekend.
'Any future course of action towards active participation in the alliance when formed would need a lot of deliberation, long term vision and should be in our best national interests,' notes Commodore Vengalil Venugopal (retd).
The new and highly transmissible Omicron variant of the deadly coronavirus has increased immune escape compared with the Delta variant and appears likely to become the dominant SARS-CoV-2 strain globally in 2022, according to Singapore-based experts.
Five weeks after he seized the Labor Party leadership, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Sunday set September 7 as the date for the country's next parliamentary elections amid growing unemployment and budget deficit.
A look at the guests at the premiere.
From when James Buchanan was sworn in in 1857 to Donald Trump in 2017.
'It's pretty likely that Kissinger, Rice et al came bearing gifts (read Trojan Horses) from McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, Grumman, Northrop, and all the other Military Industrial Complex stalwarts,' argues Rajeev Srinivasan.
Dear Mr Spielberg, can we now put to rest this overstretched, bloated dinosaur franchise? asks Aseem Chhabra.
A record number of 2,129 of Americans died in one single day, the previous highest being 2,074 on April 10. New York has become the epicentre of the country's outbreak with 2,03,020 confirmed cases and 10,842 deaths so far.
Known for speaking his mind on cricketing matters, spin legend Shane Warne gave the Australian team a pep talk after the visitors' comprehensive defeat to India in the first cricket Test in Chennai on Tuesday.
Former England batsman Graeme Hick and bowling coach Troy Cooley will pit their wits against the tourists when they mentor a Cricket Australia XI in a four-day Ashes tour match in Townsville next month.
Chelsea striker Diego Costa has avoided disciplinary action after appearing to kick out at Liverpool's Martin Skrtel in Saturday's 3-1 defeat, according to English Football Association sources.
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