BRISBANE, Australia, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- An Indian doctor wants an apology and compensation from the Australian government after he was cleared of involvement in a terrorist plot, his lawyer said.

SYDNEY, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- The Australian attorney general has invited U.N. inspectors to vet proposed torture legislation.

CANBERRA, Australia, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- At least 13 Australian families may have to return Indian children they adopted almost a decade ago, officials said.

WASHINGTON, March 10 (UPI) -- Officials from 18 federal agencies, nine states, four foreign governments and more than three dozen private companies will take part in a cyberwar exercise staged by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security this week.

SYDNEY, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Australian Attorney General Robert McClelland authorized the Australian Federal Police to seek a control order against former Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks.

CANBERRA, Australia, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Australian Prime Minister-elect Kevin Rudd has named a 20-person Cabinet lineup from his victorious Labor Party, which assumes office next week.

SYDNEY, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- Australian Prime Minister John Howard criticized Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama's proposal to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq.

CANBERRA, Australia, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- The Australian government says it will not move its embassy in Iraq out of Baghdad.

CANBERRA, Australia, June 20 (UPI) -- A measure under consideration in Parliament could give Australia's overseas intelligence agencies the right to spy on citizens at home for the first time.