Canberra to review migrant test
620435
Australia is to review its citizenship test after figures showed about 10% of applicants were failing.
625087
A review of security at Australia's diplomatic missions around the world is under way following the bombing of its Jakarta embassy on September 9, the government said.
265760
Doctors and patients are travelling to Manchester for tests which a hospital says could be carried out in Bangor.
543272
Australia's chief prosecutor said on Wednesday he will review the case against a detained Indian doctor, charged over links to a British bomb plot, after weeks of legal and political criticism that the case is weak.
238836
The government is to launch a review into whether there should be British astronauts to take part in space exploration.
379705
People who want to become Australians will have to commit to broad values of "mateship" and may need to brush up on horse racing and political history under new citizenship tests outlined by the government on Sunday.
735427
PUTRAJAYA: Thai police are looking at the possibility that those involved in the Sungai Golok bar bombing may have fled to Malaysia as authorities on both sides of the border stepped up security checks.
46931
An investigation has been ordered into whether the media was tipped off before a car bombing that caused Australia's first casualties in the Iraq conflict, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said.
358471
Security checks on skilled migrants such as NHS workers will be stepped up in wake of the London and Glasgow car bomb plots, PM says.
174566
Pakistan&#39;s Shoaib Malik could play in the first Test against Australia starting on Thursday as he waits for results of tests on his bowling action.
599954
The New Carrollton Ramada Inn and Conference Center has been chosen as the polling station for Iraqi immigrants in the Washington area who want to cast absentee ballots in their homeland's Jan. 30 election.
233315
Byrne's 'challenging targets' challenge belief Immigration minister Liam Byrne has concealed what looks like further ID card slippage and set himself a remarkably unchallenging series of immigration and border control targets in a "ten point plan" for 2008. Humorously described by the Home Office as "challenging", the plan consists largely of low targets, targets already achieved, and harder targets lobbed off into the middle distance.â¦
629252
Australia is considering whether to match a controversial US nuclear deal with India to allow Canberra to sell uranium to the New Delhi government, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said.
165974
The U.S. government made public yesterday the 100 questions that will be on the new citizenship test, an exam that officials said is meant to more deeply assess aspiring Americans' grasp of democratic values.
642160
The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to decide by Wednesday whether automobile emissions tests could be mandatory for communities in the metropolitan area.
686295
Â· PM-in-waiting will study lessons of Iraq invasionÂ· Chancellor arrives in Basra and Baghdad for talks
289812
The law protecting people who intervene to stop crime will be reviewed, the justice secretary will say.