Australian authorities have officially told Japan to stop whaling in the wake of a
dramatic high-seas clash.

Australia has condemned a "deeply offensive" drawing by an Indian cartoonist that
compares the police to white supremacists.

Natasha Chaku
Melbourne, Jan 7 (PTI) Australian police Thursday stepped
up efforts to nab the killer of a 21-year-old Indian and

World No.22 Lleyton Hewitt is adamant his Australian Open campaign remains on track
despite suffering an injury scare at the Hopman Cup in Perth on Thursday.

Australia will be in the global news later this month, with the US confirming
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will visit for the first time since being

Kentucky Fried Chicken's head office in the US has apologised for "any
misinterpretation" caused by a controversial Australian cricket ad as furious debate

Police have found knives, a machete and knuckledusters in a random search for
weapons at a Melbourne railway station, days after Indian student Nitin Garg was
stabbed nearby.

Criminal charges could be laid over a high seas crash which holed an anti-whaling ship.
Australian authorities will investigate the incident, with parallel investigations

Radio broadcaster and online business Austereo Group has appointed its content
director Guy Dobson to the helm and says its first half results will be "OK".

The daughter of a woman who was tied up and bludgeoned to death with a hammer has
pleaded for help to find her mother's killer.