Australian stock in Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. jumped 2.41 percent on Tuesday after a report that the company may be split in half, separating its publishing assets from its bigger entertainment arm.

Tibet's exiled political leader Lobsang Sangay on Tuesday said a spate of self-immolations in China was a strong message being sent by oppressed and desperate people who want to assert their freedom.

Australian stock in Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. jumped 2.41 percent on Tuesday after a report that the company may be split in half, separating its publishing assets from its bigger entertainment arm.

Moody's Investors Service on Monday said it was maintaining a stable outlook on India's Baa3 rating as problems such as slower growth and higher inflation were long-standing and already factored into

Top editors at Australian newspapers The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald resigned on Monday, after parent company Fairfax last week announced an overhaul designed to embrace the digital era.

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday called for diplomatic guarantees he will not be pursued by the United States for publishing secret documents if he goes to Sweden to face criminal allegation

Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr on Sunday said there was ‘no hint’ of a plan to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States should he be sent to Sweden.

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Rescuers were making last efforts on Saturday to search for survivors from a refugee boat accident off Australia's Christmas Island as final hopes faded for some 90 people still missing.

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An asylum-seeker boat believed to be carrying 200 people capsized on Thursday off remote Christmas Island with an unknown number of survivors, Australian authorities said.

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One of Fairfax Media's largest shareholders warned on Wednesday that the Australian firm's flagship titles faced closure without a major turnaround, describing them as 'worth less than nothing'.

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