Qantas Airways Ltd.’s bid to tie up with Emirates on international flights and shift the so-called kangaroo route to fly through Dubai was cleared by Australia’s antitrust regulator.

The alliance will be permitted for five years and allow the carriers to coordinate passenger and cargo operations and other services, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said in a regulatory statement today. The regulator will impose a condition limiting the carriers’ ability to adjust capacity on flights between Australia and New Zealand.

Qantas will sell tickets to 60 new one-stop destinations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa via Emirates’ Dubai hub under the alliance. The Australian carrier sought the tie-up after losing market share on international routes to Middle East and Asian rivals offering a wider range of connections andImage caption The Welsh assembly debated a series of amendments to the Bill

A change in the law to bring in an opt-out organ donation system has been overwhelmingly voted through by Welsh assembly members.

Wales will become the first UK country to adopt a process where individuals will be presumed to have consented for their organs to be donated unless they opt out.

Ministers want to increase the number of donors for transplant.

The new presumed consent system could come into force by 2015.

Some 43 of the 60 assembly members backed the bill, eight voted against and there were two abstentions.

Welsh Health Minister Mark Drakeford said it was "an historic day for Wales" which had "demonstrated the huge strengths of this assembly".

Wales is a progressive nation and this is a progressive