Oceania News

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.

In this Aug. 6, 1945 file photo made available by the U.S. Army, the crew of the Enola Gay is debriefed in Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands after returning from their atomic bombing mission over Hiroshima, Japan.

The 'Enola Gay' Boeing B-29 Superfortress lands at Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands on Aug. 6, 1945, after the U.S. atomic bombing mission against the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

The new chairman of the Pacific Islands Forum said Wednesday that he was determined to change the unhealthy lifestyle choices that have made his region the fattest in the world.

A TERMINALLY ill South Australian man who ran for the senate for the Voluntary Euthanasia Party has taken his life in a Glenelg motel room, says campaigner Philip Nitschke.

The Australian government Wednesday rejected a report from church leaders describing its treatment of child asylum-seekers as "state-sanctioned abuse", saying such claims were "offensive".

The new chairman of the Pacific Islands Forum said Wednesday that he was determined to change the unhealthy lifestyle choices that have made his region the fattest in the world.

A 65-year-old man accused of murdering a younger man during an argument at a small settlement in Western Australia's Mid West region on New Year's Eve intends to fight the charge.

The worst Ebola disease outbreak on record is unlikely to reach New Zealand from west Africa, the Ministry of Health's director of public health says.