Oceania News

An aging population presents a big challenge to retailers, says the head of the NZ Retail Association.

FAST food will not attract a "fat tax" and the government will instead rely on education in Australia's battle against obesity.

The government of Papua New Guinea is looking to learn about the Israeli health system, Health Minister Yael German said on Monday.

AN ALLEGED victim of child molestation told her friends "bad things'' were happening to her while she was a student living at a state-run hostel, a Perth court has heard.

Australian singer-songwriter Wally De Backer's single 'Somebody That I Used To Know' wins big at this year's Billboard Music Awards.

A Whangarei accountant has been suspended and ordered to pay $8000 after he misled the public by claiming to be a chartered accountant on his website.

An elderly New Zealand anti-royalist was fined on Monday over a plan to hurl manure at Britain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla during their visit to Auckland in 2012, reports said.

The results of MasterCard's annual online shopping survey, released today, showed 440, or 88 per cent, of the 500 New Zealanders surveyed said security was their key consideration when it came to shopping online.

A 44-year-old man, understood to be Ivan Maheno, was killed yesterday morning at a property on Fairburn Rd, about 8 kilometres east of Kaitaia.

The West Australian © London stand up comedians Gordon Southern, left and Jimmy McGhie with Perth International Comedy Festival director Jo Marsh.

Simon Reeve is about as adventurous as travel journalists get. The man behind BBC documentaries House of Saud, Equator and Indian Ocean has investigated terrorism, been shot at and suffered malaria, all to bring us thrilling TV.

New Zealand basketball's biggest name, Sean Marks, has farewelled his mother Sheila who died suddenly on Mother's Day.

PIP COURTNEY, REPORTER: The Australian Outback has often been used to test machinery to its upper limits.

The warning from the Public Transport Authority comes after a Mercedes-Benz bus caught fire and was badly damaged as it was about to be refuelled at the Welshpool depot on Sunday night... The bus is one of more than 500 in the Transperth fleet fuelled by compressed natural gas.

The second Airbus A330 for national carrier Air Pacific will arrive next Thursday in Nadi.

The study found that 90 per cent of killed riders already had traffic records for speeding or other offenses.

Miners and other resources industries aren't just ATMs for everyone else to draw from says Gina Rinehart in her resource industry address.

For so many of us, Julie Andrews loomed large in our childhoods, a constant presence through repeated viewings of those two iconic films, MARY POPPINS, and THE SOUND of MUSIC.

It was a crime of sorts, perpetuated against the international community with a brazen disregard that has come to mark the politics of the country.

A 7-year-old girl has been banned from entering New Zealand with her adopted parents because authorities say she is too sick to live here.