CANBERRA, Australia, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Australia's Defense Department has approved a $455 million artillery replacement project to include four batteries of 35 M777A2 155mm lightweight towed Howitzer field guns.

CANBERRA, Australia, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Australia has moved a step closer to building a dozen submarines in the country's most expensive ever defense procurement project at nearly $17 billion.

CANBERRA, Australia, June 6 (UPI) -- Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, after 18 months in power, announced his first cabinet reshuffle Saturday.

MILWAUKEE, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Certain products that advertise being "microwave safe" allegedly release the chemical bisphenol A when exposed to heat, test results indicate.