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Australian Prime Minister came under fire over controversial comments on the arrest of two terror suspects and for referring to a "holocaust" of job losses.

• 13 февраля 2015, 15:41

Kazakhstani film director Nariman Torebayev is presenting his 'free interpretation' of Dostoevsky’s White Nights under the title Prikluchenie (Adventure) at the Vesoul international film festival of Asian Cinema’s (FICA) in France.

• 13 февраля 2015, 04:54

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott savaged a Human Rights Commission report into the struggles of asylum-seeker children held in detention.

• 12 февраля 2015, 18:10

Australia has been granted entry into the Eurovision song contest, sparking joy from fans and bemusement from those questioning the antipodean entry.

• 11 февраля 2015, 13:50

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott survived a confidence vote on his leadership after just 17 months in power and urged an end to the disunit.

• 09 февраля 2015, 13:55

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said that he expected a challenge against his leadership to fail and stressed his government would not repeat the "chaos and instability".

• 07 февраля 2015, 13:51

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Friday he would fight a Liberal party vote next week that could remove him from power.

• 06 февраля 2015, 15:43

Kazakhstan’s finest tennis player Zarina Diyas, 21, has been named one of the brightest competitors of the Australia Open according to Eurosport.

• 05 февраля 2015, 02:22

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was fighting for his job after backbenchers publicly called for a Liberal Party leadership challenge following months of tensions.

• 04 февраля 2015, 16:31

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said that he had not contemplated stepping down.

• 02 февраля 2015, 14:48

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott marked his country's national day by honouring Britain's Prince Philip with a knighthood.

• 26 января 2015, 15:53

Kazakhstan’s Zarina Diyas has lost to World No.2 Maria Sharapova at the third round of Australian Open.

• 25 января 2015, 23:53

Prime Minister Tony Abbott urged Indonesia to show mercy to two Australian drug convicts facing execution after their final appeals for clemency failed.

• 23 января 2015, 14:34

The Australian agency leading the search for missing airliner MH370 is calling for expressions of interest for the recovery of the Malaysian jet, if it is found.

• 22 января 2015, 15:52

Missing airliner MH370 is "very likely" to be found if it lies in the vast undersea zone now being scoured, and is probably in good condition despite being submerged for 10 months.

• 16 января 2015, 15:16

For the first time in her career, Kazakhstani tennis player Zarina Diyas will not have to go through a qualifying round at the Australian Open.

• 15 января 2015, 08:46

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott condemned the "barbaric act" in Paris, in which an attack on a satirical weekly magazine left 12 people dead.

• 08 января 2015, 12:36

Iraqi Prime Ministe asked Australian counterpart Tony Abott to step up military assistance to aid Baghdad's fight against the Islamic State jihadist group.

• 05 января 2015, 13:03

Australian Prime Minister warned of heightened "terrorist chatter" in the aftermath of the fatal Sydney cafe siege and said another attack was likely.

• 23 декабря 2014, 15:49

Australian Prime Minister was accused of craving "a world where men do the big jobs and women do the ironing" .

• 22 декабря 2014, 21:00