Oceania News

Every year, the Hollywood machine churns out more than 70 drama and comedy pilots, the crop from which television network executives hope to skim the cream.

Holy Communion on Sunday morning was taken by the Rev David Greenwood. There were readings from Alan Tighe and Enid Marsh played the organ.

Dr Darren Hunt, director of public health, has asked schools to update registers to readily identify any unimmunised children in contact with measles.

NOBODY has ever crossed the route without aid. But intrepid trekkers Richard Johnson, 26, from Abingdon, and friend Patrick Hutton, 26, from London, are walking from Vamino to Daru Island in Papua New Guinea.

Clocks will be set ahead by one hour tonight in much of America, as 2 a.m. will become 3 a.m. early Sunday, March 9. Among the states, only Hawaii and much of Arizona will keep their clocks set to Standard Time.

A father of two young sons is one of two New Zealanders feared dead in a mysterious Malaysia Airlines flight disappearance yesterday.

TICKET scalpers who hock-off tickets to the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games face being slapped with thousands of dollars in fines.

Winter has dragged on in much of the country, but here's a sign spring is close at hand: Daylight saving time arrives this weekend.

A MISSION to send humans to live permanently in Mars is set to leave in 2025, but what does it take for people to want to leave for Mars forever? THOUGHT you'd seen all there was to space? Think again.

Conservative Party leader Colin Craig says he is trying to "raise the standard of debate'' in New Zealand with his defamation claim against Greens co-leader Russel Norman.

This award includes a $5,000 prize. Chris Hilton is one of Australia's most prolific and award winning factual producer/directors who has made films across a broad spectrum of subjects for the world's major broadcasters.

The expanded sex education, to be monitored by the Education Review Office, will mean students will be much better placed to make respectful and informed choices.

The original negatives of 1971's Wake In Fright were found just a week before they were due to be burned Three very different films thought to have been lost to audiences forever are being re-released.

A government committee has recommended that lethal injections be the method of executing prisoners sentenced to death in Papua New Guinea for their crimes.

Stranded by floods and lost, a German backpacker survived for around two weeks in Australia's inhospitable Outback on a diet of insects, police said Friday.

A look into how some of New Zealand's biggest volcanoes erupted hundreds of years ago could help predict lava flows for future eruptions.

A decision to allow a Timaru job seeker the right to see the CVs of people who beat him to a job could have wide reaching implications for employers and job seekers, says a leading law firm.

Ed Reynolds is on a quest to travel to all 193 countries in the United Nations. He's already been to 187, and he hopes to have visited the rest by the summer.

Ms Collins is naive if she believes the actions and comments of a Cabinet minister will not be used by the company to promote its products.

MasterChef New Zealand judge Josh Emett remembers that as a young boy, his sun protection amounted to pulling on a pair of shorts and running around half-naked during the summer months.