1. Austrade's China country manager Christopher Wright said on Monday Australian business will make an important contribution to the staging of Expo.

2. Clive Palmer claims those rules are weighted against Chinese companies seeking to buy into Australian resource projects.

3. CANBERRA - The Australian government on Tuesday condemned as a terrible act of extremism a bombing at a Moscow Airport in Russia.

4. Little by little, his hard work and personality won the hearts of his Australian colleagues.

5. A libel action brought by Australian international Harry Kewell against former England striker Gary Lineker and the Sunday Telegraph has been settled out of court.

6. Set in a Parisian cabaret, ''Moulin Rouge''features a largely Australian cast of singers and dancers.

7. But Australian Sports Minister Mark Arbib was unimpressed, becoming the latest foreign government official to call for change at FIFA.

8. The Australian radio station issued an apology on Thursday, but said the call had been made with " lighthearted intentions ".

9. Australian troops in 2005 provided protection in Iraq for Japanese soldiers barred from carrying arms, and have worked alongside Japanese forces in Cambodia and East Timor.

10. Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard was almost hit in the face by a boot thrown by a protester at a Cambridge University debate.