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AUSTRALIA’S central bank Friday cut its forecasts for economic growth and inflation this year and warned unemployment would likely rise as the economy transitions away from a mining investment boom. The Reserve

INVESTIGATORS probing a rail accident which killed six people near New York City say the train was within the speed limit for that section of track. The crash happened after a mother-of-three

JORDANIAN air strikes on Islamic State (IS) targets are “the beginning of our retaliation” for the killing of a captured Jordanian pilot, Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh has said. He told CNN that

POLICE in Brazil have questioned the treasurer of the governing Workers’ Party in connection with a scandal involving state oil giant Petrobras. Joao Vaccari Neto has not been charged but was taken

TWO Australian Liberal party MPs have said they will call a leadership challenge against beleaguered PM Tony Abbott next week. The motion was proposed by Luke Simpkins, a backbencher from Western Australia,

RADICAL changes to the way the NHS in England is organised have been “disastrous” and “distracted” from patient care, leading analysts say. The evaluation by the King’s Fund think tank says the

DIPLOMATIC efforts are under way to end renewed fighting in eastern Ukraine. French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel held urgent talks in the capital Kiev, presenting a new peace

A JAPANESE man recognised as the world’s oldest living male by Guinness World Records turned 112 on Thursday. Sakari Momoi, a resident of Saitama city, north of Tokyo, responded with a smile

PRESIDENT Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama saluted each other across a plush ballroom at a high-profile prayer event Thursday, a first public encounter that is sure to anger Beijing. Seated a

MAURITANIA has postponed its senatorial elections to focus on persuading the opposition to drop plans to boycott the vote, the government has announced. A first round of polls had been planned for