Ben Westcott

Australia's main opposition group laid out a A$331 billion ($211 billion) plan to create a taxpayer-funded nuclear power industry in just over a decade, despite the nation's top scientists saying renewable energy such as wind and solar energy is more cost effective.

Australia’s main opposition group laid out a A$331 billion ($211 billion) plan to create a taxpayer-funded nuclear power industry in just over a decade, despite the nation’s top scientists saying renewable energy such as wind and solar energy is more cost effective.

(Bloomberg) -- Australia's main opposition group laid out a A$331 billion ($211 billion) plan to create a taxpayer-funded nuclear power industry in

By assassinating an interim minister in Afghanistan's de facto government on Dec. 11, a branch of the radical group Islamic State escalated its conflict with its fellow Islamist movement, the Taliban, which retook power in the country three years ago. Killed in a suicide bombing at his office in Kabul, Khalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani, the Taliban's minister for refugees and repatriation, is the highest-profile target so far of the Islamic State Khorasan, or ISIS-K.

(Bloomberg) -- Australia appointed Renée Fry-McKibbin, who participated in the review of the central bank, and former Bendigo and Adelaide Bank CEO Marnie Baker to the Reserve Bank's new monetary policy committee.

Australia appointed Renée Fry-McKibbin, who participated in the review of the central bank, and former Bendigo and Adelaide Bank CEO Marnie Baker to the Reserve Bank’s new monetary policy committee.

Australia’s budget is expected to slip deeper into deficit in the years ahead due to rising government spending and a weakening in key trade partner China, a mid-year fiscal update showed, with a national election due in less than six months.

(Bloomberg) -- Australia's budget is expected to slip deeper into deficit in the years ahead due to rising government spending and a weakening in

Australia will try to rein in a spike in international student arrivals by imposing different speeds of visa processing, in the latest effort by the center-left government to cut migration numbers ahead of an expected tight election.

Australia’s new targets for carbon emission cuts by 2035 are expected to be delayed by several months as a result of Donald Trump’s return to the White House, likely pushing them out beyond the next election which is due to be held by May.