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The UK jury considering the case against veteran Australian entertainer Rolf Harris has been told to disregard his career and focus on the evidence.

As officials prepare for the next step in the search for flight MH370 the Malaysian government confirms it has spent $9.3 million compared to Australia’s $89.9 million spend.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott's meeting with US President Barack Obama will also include Vice-President Joe Biden.

The Australian and Canadian prime ministers have talked down the idea of co-ordinated global action on climate change.

A 22-year-old Perth man will face court charged with driving under the influence after he was caught riding a motorised esky down a main road.

Barry Jones, the eminent Australian thinker, says the Abbott government is waging a "war on science".

Australians from all walks of life and in all kinds of professions recognised with Queen's Birthday Honours.

Tony Abbott has joined Prince Charles and British PM David Cameron at a morning service in Normandy on the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

Six Australian D-Day veterans have received France's prestigious Legion of Honour on the 70th anniversary of the historic landing.

After four long weeks of evidence in Rolf Harris's child sex abuse trial, the jury has been told "we are moving towards you making your decisions".

Education Minister Christopher Pyne has rejected claims that Malcolm Turnbull is not doing enough to sell the budget.

Australians rate amongst the happiest people on Earth says the 2014 OECD’s Better Life Index.

The Queen's new coach is decorated with gold leaf and jewels and displays an intricate amount of detail reflecting more than 1000 years of British history... and it's made in Australia.

British nationals can marry Australians in Australia but their union will not be recognised by Australian law, furthering the debate about Australian marriage reform.

Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull and broadcaster Alan Jones have had a feisty on-air exchange.

Bruce Harris has defended his brother Rolf during the star's child sex abuse trial telling the jury assault claims by a TV make-up artist are ridiculous.

Dump nuclear waste in Australia says former Prime Minister, Bob Hawke: “The one thing this country ought to do is have the disposal of nuclear waste in remote areas.”

According to the 2014 survey of the Gender Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index Australian female entrepreneurs narrowly lost first place to the USA. Australians scored 80 points while their UK counterparts lagged behind with 54 points.

Video has emerged of Rolf Harris at a charity sporting event in Cambridge in 1978 less than a week after he insisted he'd never been to the city until three or four years ago.

The US has received a crash course in Prime Minister Tony Abbott's missteps and controversial comments, thanks to TV show Last Week Tonight.

Australia adds its support to the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, chaired by actress-philanthropist Angelina Jolie, to be held in London next week.

“Britishness is no longer the defining feature of the Australian national identity.” - Shadow attorney-general, Mark Dreyfus.

Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews says a proposal to drug test people on the dole is off the table.

Tony Abbott has been criticised for talking about the D-Day landings and his aim to scrap the carbon and mining taxes in the same video message.

An international report found that 11 million Australians need to lay-off the junk food and get in shape.

On Thursday a 29 year old British national Ben Asadollahi Zoje was arrested in Sydney when he was found in possession of 2kg’s of ecstasy hidden in his luggage.

Billionaire MP Clive Palmer says he was helped by the dole when he was an out-of-work teenager.

indi Harris was so shocked when told her famous father Rolf had sexually abused her friend she banged her head against a wall, a London court has heard.

The royals keep mum about Kate’s bare bum. A photo from the royal couple's Australian tour, published in the popular German newspaper Bild and Australia's Daily Telegraph, has caused a huge stir among the British press. The decision to publish the offending photo has been described as ‘sleazy and creepy’.

Group of British companies share valuable experience, information and advice about business in Australia with new UK Trade and Investment Organisation.

During rigorous cross-examination prosecutor Sasha Wass QC has suggested Bindi Harris lied to support her famous father and he may have "put her up to it".

The new visa centre opened in Bangkok earlier this month and will be shared by Australia and the United Kingdom.

It seems Peppa Pig is next in line on the new budget’s list of victims. The much loved British produced animated children’s program might be getting the chop.

Search co-ordinators say they have discounted an area of the Indian Ocean, where acoustic "pings" were detected, as being MH370's final resting place.

1,560 beers from all over the world were sampled and judged by 40 international beer experts for the Australian International Beer Awards and Aussies won almost half of the overall awards.

Queensland Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney says Clive Palmer is an embarrassment to Australia who is damaging relations with China.

Although highly criticial of the budget, Labor has helped pass one of its key measures - the temporary tax hike on the wealthy.

Rolf Harris admits being "touchy-feely" and having multiple affairs but says it's "ludicrous" to suggest he had underage sex with his daughter's friend.

On Monday Australian Apple users were left reeling when their devices were hi-jacked and held for a $50 ransom.

A member of Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s ruling Liberal Party protested against budget cuts when he smuggled a pipe bomb in to a parliament sitting on Monday night.

Friends of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) pleads for support after suffering a massive budget blow.

Labor has failed to secure an investigation into Speaker Bronwyn Bishop's use of her parliamentary suite for a Liberal fundraising event.

UN special advisor, and one of the architects behind a UN initiative to end world poverty, Jeffrey Sachs, has sharply criticized the Abbott government’s stance on foreign aid following the federal budget.

The prosecution has wound up its case against Rolf Harris with the veteran entertainer expected to take the stand next to launch his defence case.

The Australian government has expressed concerns about the military coup in Thailand through the Thai embassy in Canberra and with Thai authorities in Bangkok.

“The bottom line is, if you’re paying more for health in Australia, it doesn’t necessarily guarantee a better outcome for low-risk babies and women.” - Professor Hannah Dahlen UWS.

The prime minister says he winked because he became momentarily distracted while taking a call during an ABC radio interview.

An Australian make-up artist who worked with Rolf Harris in 1986 says she later complained "the dirty old man groped me all day - I'm really pissed off".

CSIRO will be keeping a check on the world’s happiness-levels by combing through thousands of tweets every minute. Considered a breakthrough tool in establishing international moods and a valuable research tool, it comes on the back of a the federal budget blow to the agency's funding.

Children aren’t inherently passive couch potatoes yet 80% of Australian children are getting less than an hour’s physical activity a day, a new study reveals.