Oceania News

Sun lovers may be raising their risk of skin cancer by avoiding sunscreen due to unfounded fears over nanoparticles, according to a federal government study.

The Australian Greens could ditch their opposition to a key aspect of Labor's private health insurance reforms if the federal government stumps up at least $1 billion for dental care in the May budget.

The largest ocean liner to visit Australia, the Queen Mary 2, has arrived in Western Australia to begin her maiden circumnavigation around the country.

A spark from electrical equipment probably ignited methane gas causing the deadly explosion in New Zealand's Pike River mine killing 29 men, the royal commission into the disaster has been told.

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CONTESTANTS in a French version of The Amazing Race have run into trouble with SES officials who were forced to redirect the series as it tracked straight into flood-ravaged parts of New South Wales.

Ridout will bring to three the number of women on the RBA's nine-member board. The central bank's imbalance of women mirrors the boardrooms of Australia's biggest public companies, where about 13 percent of directors are female.

Papua New Guinea's supreme court has briefly adjourned hearings into the nation's ongoing political dispute until a heavy police presence is removed from the court grounds, after the chief justice was barred from entering.

The group has been accused of ignoring a drinking ban on the Underground and using "vulgar sexual language" to the distress of other passengers.

Floodwaters lap at the first floor of a home near Charleville, about 685 km west of Brisbane February 6, 2012.

A family member discovered the body of the 43-year-old lying on the floor of the shed at the back of a house in Greta just after 9.30am today.

Kiwis will soon face full-body scans at Australian airports or be banned from flying, in a radical security overhaul that could create greater airport delays.

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The Tongariro Crossing's name was changed in 2007 to the Tongariro Alpine Crossing in a bid to dissuade tourists from attempting the day-long trek taking little more than jandals and a water bottle - only to be caught by the unpredictable weather.

Thousands of Australians fled their homes as floodwaters engulfed parts of the country's northeast, damaging properties and ravaging crops a year after natural disasters cost the economy about A$9 billion .

Flood waters rose on Monday in parts of Queensland but residents of a threatened town in the Australian state were thrown a lifeline with news that the levee on a swollen river might hold.

Rescuers have recovered 17 bodies and pulled 13 survivors from white-capped waters off this coastal town after an overloaded boat carrying migrants from the Dominican Republic capsized, officials said Sunday.

Authorities were using military helicopters and a C-130 cargo plane Sunday to evacuate thousands of residents stranded by rising floodwaters in the eastern Australian state of Queensland, the government said.

Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce has renewed his attack on proposed law changes limiting the airline's ability to hire foreign flight crews, arguing they will force it to dump services to Darwin and Cairns.

On the occasion of Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee, which marks 60 years of her reign as Head of State of the United Kingdom and 15 other Commonwealth realms, an exhibition of 60 press photographs is on show at Windsor Castle.