More than 2,000 could be buried in Papua New Guinea landslide
More than 2,000 people could be buried alive by a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea last week, the government said on Monday, as treacherous terrain and the difficulty of getting ...
More than 300 buried in Papua New Guinea landslide, local media says
More than 300 people and over 1,100 houses were buried by a massive landslide that levelled a remote village in northern Papua New Guinea, local media reported on Saturday.
Hundreds are feared ...
Protestors block New Caledonia roads as French police pour in
A thousand police arrived in New Caledonia from France and streets were relatively calm, the French High Commission said on Monday, but roads were blocked and the airport remained shut, ...
Australians stranded in New Caledonia ‘running out of food’ amid civil unrest
Australians stranded in New Caledonia are rationing food as they wait for a way out of the Pacific island territory, after unrest that has killed six people, a traveller from ...
Aboriginal spears snatched by British in 1770 to return to Australia
Four spears taken from Australia by a British explorer more than 250 years ago will be returned by Cambridge University to descendants of the indigenous community which crafted them, in the ...
Sydney church stabbing was terrorist act say Australian police
Australian police on Tuesday said a knife attack on an Assyrian church bishop and some followers in Sydney was a terrorist act motivated by suspected religious extremism, as the country ...
Several people injured in a stabbing in Sydney church
A number of people were wounded in a stabbing incident during a service at a church in a suburb of Sydney on Monday, police said.
It was the second reported ...
Sydney knife attacker may have targeted women, say police
The man who fatally stabbed six people at a mall in Sydney’s beachside suburb of Bondi may have targeted women, police said on Monday, as the attacker’s father ...
Sydney attacker had mental health issues, ideology not motive
The man who fatally stabbed six people in Sydney had mental health issues in the past and there is no indication ideology was a motive in the attack in one ...
Sydney knife attacker shot dead after killing 6 in Bondi mall
An attacker who fatally knifed six people in a Sydney mall was shot dead by police in the beachside suburb of Bondi on Saturday, police said, as hundreds fled the ...
Australia bank CEOs call for a fix to housing shortage
Australia’s housing shortage may be driving prices higher but is locking out first-time homeowners and migrants needed to fill skills shortages across the country, the CEOs of Australia’s ...
Mass brawl forces authorities to impose curfew in Australian tourist town
Australia’s Northern Territory on Wednesday imposed a two-week youth curfew in the tourist town of Alice Springs, a day after a mass brawl involving 150 people, many of them armed ...
At least 50 hurt as LATAM’s Boeing 787 to Auckland ‘just dropped’ mid-flight (Updated)
At least 50 people were hurt when a Boeing 787 operated by LATAM Airlines LTM.SN dropped abruptly mid-flight from Sydney to Auckland on Monday, according to the airline and a New ...
Qantas fined for firing worker who raised Covid safety concerns
Australia‘s Qantas Airways has been fined A$250,000 for illegally sacking an employee who told staff not to clean aircraft arriving from China early in the COVID-19 pandemic, adding to ...
New Zealand set to scrap world-first tobacco ban
New Zealand will repeal on Tuesday a world-first law banning tobacco sales for future generations, the government said, even while researchers and campaigners warned of the risk that people could ...
Australian retired bishop charged with 19 sexual offences
A retired Roman Catholic bishop appeared in court in remote Western Australia on Thursday on charges of sexual offences against children, including two counts of rape.
The charges against Christopher ...
If your boss calls afterhours, you can ignore him…in Australia
Australia will introduce laws giving workers the right to ignore unreasonable calls and messages from their bosses outside of work hours without penalty, with potential fines for employers that breach ...
16,000 sheep and cattle still in limbo aboard ship
Around 16,000 livestock remained in limbo aboard an export ship at an Australian port on Friday, having set sail for Israel exactly four weeks ago only to abandon a passage through ...
Japan quake toll nears 50 as rescuers battle to find survivors (Updated)
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At least 48 people were killed after a powerful earthquake hit Japan on New Year’s Day, with ...
Heavy rains in Australia’s east bring more pain to storm-hit residents
Heavy rains lashed parts of Australia’s east on Monday, triggering flash flooding, inundating roads and bringing more pain for some residents reeling after the intense thunderstorms that hit the ...
Severe thunderstorms batters Australia, ten dead and thousands without power
Ten people were killed in Australia after severe thunderstorms battered the country’s east over the Christmas holidays, authorities said on Wednesday, with tens of thousands of properties still without ...
Large parts of Australia endure heatwave, lifting bushfire risk
Large parts of Australia on Sunday sweated through heatwave conditions as authorities warned of a high bushfire risk in many parts of the country’s vast Western Australia state.
The ...
Fan who hit Melbourne keeper with metal bucket has jail term overturned
A football fan who hit Melbourne City keeper Tom Glover in the face with a metal bucket during a pitch invasion last year had his jail term overturned on Friday.
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Health experts decry New Zealand’s scrapping of world-first tobacco ban
Health and tobacco campaigners said on Monday that New Zealand’s plan to repeal laws that would ban tobacco sales for future generations threatened lives and put international efforts to ...