CANBERRA: A man who blames the Church of Scientology for his brother's suicide added his voice Monday to calls for an Australia Senate inquiry into the religion.

AP These undated images provided by the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Department of Public Sun Nov 22, 12:27 pm ET SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands The gunman who killed four people and wounded nine in a shooting rampage on the Pacific island of Saipan was identified Sunday as a Chinese national believed to be employed at the ...

After years of debate New Zealand is set to have a working emissions trading scheme in 2010.

A teenage New Zealand thug who has won an appeal against an Australian deportation order should not have been allowed to stay on that side of the Tasman, says an Australian police union.

The Government has been urged to rethink it's stance on gay marriage as it considers vetoing ACT laws recognising same-sex unions / AFP Kevin Rudd considering overturning gay laws Brown says it would be 'plain bigotry' Rudd urged to rethink policy on gay marriage AUSTRALIA'S only openly gay political leader says it would be "plain bigotry" for the ...

The organisers of an Auckland protest against the anti-smacking legislation are threatening to take their march to other cities, but say their next step will be determined by Prime Minister John Key.

Sydney - Hundreds of homes in eastern Australia were under threat from massive wildfires on Sunday as soaring temperatures and windy conditions fanned the out-of-control flames, officials said.

Tourists from China are seen in this Oct. 10, 2008 photo getting a quick tour of Banzai Cliff, an area in Saipan, the US Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, where hundreds of Japanese jumped to death during World War II at the Pacific Ocean screaming Banzai as a final salute to their Emperor.

China's top political advisor, Jia Qinglin, met with French High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia Adolphe Colrat here on Friday.

Australian News.Net Thursday 19th November, 2009 One of the Bangladeshi conjoined twins Australian surgeons separated this week is talking and cuddling her stand-in mother while the other is wiggling her fingers and soon will be woken from her induced coma.

BREAKING NEWS: 3:42 p.m. - SDA teacher-missionary found dead in Yap Pacific Daily News * news@guampdn.com * November 20, 2009 The Seventh-day Adventist community is mourning the loss of a missionary teacher who was found dead - the apparent victim of a homicide in Yap, in the Federated States of Micronesia.

Fortescue Metals Group Ltd says it remains hopeful it will eventually gain access to rail owned by mining giant Rio Tinto Ltd in Western Australia's Pilbara region.

A national welcome-home march has taken place at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra to mark the end of Australia's military operations in Iraq.

Police have laid further charges after two people shot into a crowd that had gathered for a funeral in a West Australian town.

School officials from a Tennessee University said a 20-year-old student doing missionary work in Micronesia was killed.

Extreme bushfire danger around the nation today has fire officials on high alert with record high temperatures expected.

Thank you. Hero pilot lands plane in sea Norfolk Island airport manager Glenn Robinson tells 3AW about being part of the rescue mission to save six aircraft passengers stuck at sea.

A gunman went on the rampage in the Northern Mariana Islands in the western Pacific on Friday, killing at least four people and wounding eight mostly Korean tourists, officials and reports said.

Yarrows Bakery in south Taranaki says lay-offs announced on Thursday were delayed for as long as possible.

A cannibalistic tribe in Papua New Guinea, whose members used to eat the brains of dead relatives, provides an example of evolution that could help find a treatment for 'mad cow' disease, according to scientists.