Oceania News

A Papua New Guinean politician says asylum seekers detained on Manus Island have appeared in a pornographic film with local girls.

DISTRICT Court jury finds Eagles player Murray Newman guilty of assault by punching love rival outside a Northbridge nightclub and breaking his jaw.

Detectives are refusing to confirm reports they are investigating a notorious killer dubbed "The Black Widower" over the mysterious death of a Perth woman nearly 14 years ago.

A drink-drive case involving a Gisborne sportswoman originally granted name suppression and a discharge without conviction is back before the courts as the polocrosse player appeals her conviction.

Kerryn Adamson and her children, Tomas and Georgina Ogden, love living in their character Grey Lynn villa, which has been renovated and insulated.

Annette Menzies, Jo Eyles from Hastings, Chris Hough pictured in the cafe during the Christmas party at Summerset in the Vines Retirement Village in Havelock North.

From top to toe, they have clearly left the best bits for last in this final instalment of Lifestyle You's hit of 2013.

Australia's Takeover Panel has called the revisions made to the fraught takeover deal by Saputo of Warrnambool Cheese and Butter " confusing " and " disrupting " as it attempted to simplify the heated three-way bidding war for the Australian dairy manufacturer.

On a street in a suburb of the South African coastal city of East London is the unusual sight of a big brick wall with the slogan Mighty All Blacks and New Zealand All Blacks Supporters Club painted on it.

House prices as measured by Quotable Value are rising by just under 10 per cent but Treasury forecasts that will fall to 5 per cent by this time next year.

THERE has been a dramatic decline in saltwater crocodiles captured in Northern Territory waterways this year, according to a leading croc catcher.

UPDATE: African police are closing in on the man wanted for scamming WA woman Jette Jacobs, who was later found dead in a South African villa.

England have lost the Ashes with a third successive defeat to Australia in Perth, despite a maiden Test century from Ben Stokes.

In a finding likely to be a bitter blow for many New Zealanders, researchers have found the country's iconic kiwi bird probably descended from an ancestor that flew in from Australia.

Shares in Australia's Pact Group Holdings Ltd opened down on their debut on Tuesday after the company raised A$649 million in Australia's biggest IPO this year, casting doubt on new issues in the pipeline for 2014.

Plump ripe citrus that is sweet and tart, fragrant herbs picked fresh from the garden.

Research by the Harvard Business School has found NZ directors are less concerned about global competitive threats than global directors despite New Zealand's high level of "brain drain".

"So sad. It's hard to believe. It's such a part of our landscape." , said Emily Perkins.

Jetstar will raise the transtasman travel stakes next year by putting on one of its new Boeing 787 Dreamliners - but for a limited time only.

David John of Lister Shearing equipment Ltd awarded the Shearing Personality of the Year trophy at the British Isles Shearing Competition Association AGM in Bradford in November.