(AAP) - Dozens of childcare centres are failing to meet safety standards and supervise children poorly, NSW Minister for Community Services Linda Burney says.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 Kyodo - U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told Japanese farm minister Hirotaka Akamatsu on Friday that Tokyo should lift all of its mad cow disease-related controls on U.S.

Lalit K Jha

Dublin, Oct 09, SPA --The Saudi Ambassador to Ireland Abdulaziz bin
Abdulrahman Al-Drees visited here yesterday the Royal College of
Surgeons of Ireland.

SAADA, Oct.

Speaker of the parliament of Tajikistan lauded Iran’s staunch position regarding world powers and said the Iranian president’s speech in the UN General Assembly has prompted comfort and happiness i

Padang, West Sumatra, Oct. 10 (ANTARA) - The death toll from the recent powerful earthquake that devastated West Sumatra province rose to 805 on Friday evening.

Hanoi (VNA) – Around 300 representatives from more than 140 global media
agencies gathered in Beijing on October 9 to discuss challenges in the industry and

Prasun Sonwalkar

Obama's diplomacy is founded in the concept that those
who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values
and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's