Oceania News

Australia has sent 157 migrants, thought to be Sri Lankan asylum seekers, to a detention center on the Pacific island of Nauru after they declined an offer to speak with Indian officials about their refugee claims, the government said on Saturday.

FEDERAL Treasurer Joe Hockey's call for everyone to take a "chill pill" over the budget has brought a heated response from Opposition Leader Bill Shorten.

The grisly search for human remains from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 entered a new phase Friday, as the largest group yet of international experts scoured the crash site in eastern Ukraine.

Springing ahead: Taranaki's Hudson Simons, 22 months, checks out the daffodils already growing at the bottom of Marsland Hill in New Plymouth.

Air New Zealand passengers stranded for days in Hawaii are "gobsmacked" at revelations crew were out drinking, making them unfit for duty if the plane had been made airworthy.

A California entrepreneur is helping salvage the dream of a father and son from Indiana who died trying to pilot a plane around the world in a record-breaking quest for charity.

Hundreds of Australian families travel to Thailand each year to achieve their dreams of having children.

Film studios and other content creators should sue "mums and dads and students" who download pirated content online, Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull says.

Papua New Guinea athlete Toua Udia was arrested following a report of an incident at a Tesco supermarket near the Athletes' Village in Glasgow on Monday July 21. The 22-year-old pleaded not guilty to a charge under the Sexual Offences Act at Glasgow Sheriff Court earlier this week and is set to go on trial today.

World Trade Organization Director-General Roberto Azevedo gestures during a news conference on world trade in 2013 and prospect for 2014 in Geneva April 14, 2014.

While speaking to an audience in Melbourne, Australia, on September 10, 2001 former President Bill Clinton allegedly said that he passed up an opportunity to kill terrorist and 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden while in office.

Australia can't pin all its hopes on the housing sector to drive the economic recovery, as building approvals appear to have passed their peak.

New Zealanders now have more television viewing options at lower prices, as internet TV services start and existing platforms react to protect their territory.

The parents of a teenager killed in Oamaru four years ago are dumbfounded and outraged over a High Court verdict that found their son's killer guilty of manslaughter, not murder.

PRISON officers will put the state's jails into lockdown if plans to reintroduce a dedicated dog squad within Correctional Services proceed.

Children of asylum seekers have been sent to offshore detention as a deterrent strategy and have been deprived of medication, mental health care and adequate clothing, an inquiry has heard.

Chorus is in the Court of Appeal challenging a High Court decision that upheld a Commerce Commission price regulation for broadband delivered over the copper wire network.

THE only way to avoid having children in detention is to stop asylum seeker boats trying to reach Australia, Prime Minister Tony Abbott says.

NAKED MESSAGE: While we're used to seeing Robyn Lawley posing in swimwear and lingerie, her nude selfie protest is a whole different ballgame.

Paul McGeough reports from Shakhtersk in eastern war-ravaged Ukraine, where fighting between government forces and pro-Russian rebels have blocked international access to the Malaysia Airlines crash site.