Oceania News

SINGAPORE: Access to affordable drugs for the world's poor will be hampered if a US plan to impose stricter pharmaceutical patents is adopted at talks on a Pacific trade pact, activists say.

A whistle-stop food tour with Grant "Cook" Allen is never a straightforward follow-the-map excursion.

AUSTRALIA has won the second Ashes Test at Adelaide Oval by 218 runs to take a commanding 2-0 lead in the series.

A protester places an olive branch onto the truncheon during protests at the All Blacks test against South Africa.

Alicia A.G. Limtiaco, U.S. Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced Friday that Jesus Sablan Palacios was found guilty on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2013, of three counts of felon in possession of firearm and/or ammunition, and three counts of unlawful user of a controlled substance in possession of firearm and/or ... (more)

As soon as the ACT's marriage equality came into effect, gay couples began tying the knot in Canberra, with less than a week before the High Court's ruling on whether the laws are overturned.

For these two visitors from the United Kingdom, a ride in an H2OGO feels like being in a washing machine on agitate.

A guard wearing a traditional white sulu standing at attention at the gates of the Presidential Palace in Suva, Fiji.

The Nothing Trivial cast understand why the fans are upset. A former top TV boss is behind a social media campaign urging Television New Zealand to bring back local drama series Nothing Trivial .

John Key - he charms us with his fetching smile and soothing words to ebb our resistance away.

It was only a matter of time before the music world's surprise star for 2013, Kiwi teenager Lorde, was recast as Australian - but everyone assumed it'd be Australia that first claimed her.

Cutbacks to tuna fishing agreed at a crucial Pacific regional fisheries conference to prevent over-fishing have fallen short of expectations, the head of the fisheries management body said Saturday.

After cold rain and winds lashed the Southwest and other parts of the country Friday, millions of residents hunkered down for icy conditions expected to last through the weekend as the cold snap was forecast to... After cold rain and winds lashed the Southwest and other parts of the country Friday, millions of residents hunkered down for icy ... (more)

An Australian surfer says he felt something hit his hand - but was totally unaware of the gravity of the moment.

It's been a big year for big-name brands. Porsche's 911 is 50, McLaren is 50, Lamborghini is, too.

How the Trans Pacific Partnership will treat access to affordable medicines is the most controversial issue confronting trade ministers from the 12 countries when they meet in Singapore tomorrow.

A private member's bill put forward by Labour MP Phil Goff would require foreign buyers of farmland to demonstrate that their investment would create more jobs or otherwise benefit the economy more than a New Zealand buyer.

Under the agreement, Total will take a share of that size in InterOil's petroleum retention license 15 -- which includes the Elk and Antelope fields -- for $1.5 to $3.6 billion, depending on the size of the gas reserves, InterOil said in a statement.

A state lawmaker and his partner plan to fly 3,500 kilometres across Australia to become one of the nation's first same-sex couples to legally marry at an after-midnight ceremony in the Australian capital.

New Zealand's artist for the 2013 Venice Biennale, Bill Culbert, in the doorway of the New Zealand pavilion in Venice.