Oceania News

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.

Virgin Blue chief Brett Godfrey says he hopes airfares will return to stronger prices soon.

Soaring temperatures, strengthening winds and possible thunderstorms have emergency services across South Australia on high alert / File Firetrucks collide while fighting fire 'Catastrophic fire conditions' declared Adelaide swelters in 43 degrees TWO firetrucks have collided while fighting a bushfire in South Australia, as many parts of the ...

Over two-thirds of young people, mostly dark-skinned students from Africa and India, experience 'racial vilification' at schools in Australia, a new national study has said.

A FORMER Cleo Bachelor of the Year nominee has been revealed as the pilot who saved a critically-ill woman and five others on a CareFlight plane after being forced into an emergency landing.

AUSTRALIAN regulators have approved a Chinese state-owned company's $40 million stake deal in a South Australian magnetite joint venture.

An example of damage to ceiling panels above passenger seats on flight QF72. Photo: Air Transport Safey Board Cosmic rays are being considered by air safety investigators as a possible cause of a Qantas plane plunging twice in quick succession on its way from Singapore to Perth in October last year.

South Australia faces a second day of catastrophic bushfire danger on Thursday. Temperatures are expected to soar into the 40s across the state, with Adelaide also forecast to have a top of 43C.

Paralympian Kurt Fearnley has crawled the entire rugged 96km of PNG's iconic Kokoda Track.

BED REST: The woman at the centre of the abuse claims is shown tied to the bed by a sheet.

It's not enough saying a cap-and-trade system will work in theory. Sure, the underlying economics behind a perfect cap-and-trade system are sound, but it is very unlikely any ETS ever developed will be perfect.

A New Zealand crop spraying pilot has been killed in a crash on a farm in Western Australia.

The Church of Scientology has described a speech by independent Senator Nick Xenophon yesterday outlining allegations against the church as an "abuse of parliamentary privilege." The Church was responding to Senator Xenophon's statement in which he said he was "deeply concerned about this organisation and the devastating impact it can have on its ...

I rise to speak tonight on an issue of utmost seriousness that I believe deserves a great deal of scrutiny by law enforcement agencies and by this parliament.

Oil and gas companies operating in New Zealand have a combined war chest of around $800 million and they are actively exploring, says McDouall Stuart research head John Kidd.