AUSTRALIA

Cricket-loving Australians are about to get a taste of Major League Baseball when the 2014 opening series arrives in Sydney next year.

Don't like the name your parents gave you? For many Chinese, they get a second chance when they work with Westerners. How about 'Chocolate'?

The News Corp. chairman and CEO is leaving his wife, Wendi Deng Murdoch.

The OECD said in some cases immigration costs 0.5% of GDP; in other cases it adds about the same, according to the report.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard was offended after a crude, sexist menu was supposedly passed around at a fundraiser.

The BRCK is a unique new tool that can help Africans get connected to the internet wherever they are.

"Game of Thrones" isn't popular just with HBO subscribers. It's also setting new records for digital piracy.

A new WWF study pinpoints the planet’s most dangerous oceans and describes how shipwrecks are likely to increase in coming years.

U.S. consumer sentiment will also be in focus this week.

The move will cost the carrier $35 million and strengthen its market share against Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd.

Asian stocks declined for a third straight day in volatile trade as investors remained ware of Friday's U.S. nonfarm payroll data.

China’s food imports and agribusiness will jump over the next decade pressuring global business, resources and the environment, a report says.

Microsoft, along with the FBI and other authorities, disrupted a cyber crime network that led to $500 million in losses to financial institutions.

Japanese investors tend to be pioneers in the global currency market, and they’ve been flocking to Mexico lately.

Blue Lake on North Stadbroke Island in Australia has been untouched by climate change for the past 7,500 years, scientists say.

Led by strong GDP growth in Indonesia and the Philippines, office rents are rising in ASEAN’s major economies.

The U.S. held off on signing a landmark U.N. arms treaty on Monday while key players Russia and China remained silent.

Elizabeth, now 87 years old, is the official “head of state” and “sovereign leader” of sixteen nations, including Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica and Canada

The coronation provided a much-needed episode of color, pageantry and elegance in grim, post-war Britain.

Surprise! Sharks are worth more in the ocean than in a bowl of soup.

Some 308,000 people (mostly youths) have left Ireland since 2009 (in a country with a population of only about 4.6 million).