Australian mining billionaire Andrew Forrest and his wife Nicola will make an donation of 65 million AU dollars (61.5 million U.S. dollars) to alma mater, the University of Western Australia, making it the single largest donation in Australian history, local media reported on Monday.
Oscar-winner Sandra Bullock's power and added 3-D premium concerted to help "Gravity" shot to the top of North America box office chart, while the weekend's another wide release "Runner, Runner" finished in the third place with a much smaller take.
New Zealand's median weekly pay packet rose by 4.8 percent to 844 NZ dollars (700 U.S. dollars) in the year to the end of June, driven up by an aging workforce, the government statistics agency announced Friday.
The final budget outcome for the 2012-13 financial year was a deficit of 18.8 billion AU dollars ( 17.5 billion U.S. dollars), Australian federal government data released on Friday shows.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday charged two former executives of China-based ChinaCast Education Corporation with fraud and insider trading.
"Prisoners" dominated the weekend North America box office with 21.4 million U.S. dollars worth of ticket sales, opening on the high end of pre-release anticipations.
Egypt's antiquity sector has been suffering from looting, suspension of excavation, shortages of funding since the start of the 2011 unrest, the minister of antiquities said in a recent interview with Xinhua.
U.S. stocks shed earlier gains and closed mixed on Monday, as former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers pulled out of the race for Federal Reserve chairmanship, currently held by Ben Bernanke.
Australia's trade and investment with APEC nations has grew in 2012, a new report from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) showed on Monday.
Director James Wan's latest film "Insidious: Chapter 2" has once again turned into a dominant force at the North America box office, finishing in the top slot with ease over the weekend.
South Korea's foreign currency reserves continued a record-breaking trend last month due to a rise in investment returns, central bank data showed Wednesday.
Oil prices continued to climb Wednesday on concerns about Syria but the pace slowed down as some traders locked in profits.
China-Japan trade has posted consistent declines since early this year, with words and actions by Japanese politicians and government to blame, a Chinese Ministry of Commerce spokesman said Friday.
The Hong Kong government has approved two grants from the Disaster Relief Fund totaling 5.48 million HK dollars (706,549 U.S. dollars) to two relief agencies to undertake relief projects for victims of drought and flooding on the Chinese mainland, a government spokesman said Friday.
U.S. stocks closed higher on positive data on Thursday after the Nasdaq stock exchange suspended trading of all stocks for about three hours.
Australia's economic growth is "no guarantee of rising riches for Australian families," as the latest official data on average household wealth has broken a decade of expansion by going into reverse from 2009, local media reported on Thursday.
The White House said Tuesday the Obama administration has not halt or cut off assistance to Egypt and that President Barack Obama and his national security team would discuss whether to continue or curtail the 1.5 billion U.S. dollars in annual aid.
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