Oceania News

A member of an extremist cell believed to be behind a suicide attack that killed more than 20 people including three U.S. Marines has been arrested, the U.S. military said Friday.

U.S. spokesmen said it was unclear if the suspect, who was not identified, was directly involved in planning the attack that happened Thursday in the town of Karmah in Anbar province about 30 miles west of Baghdad.

A suicide bomber reportedly dressed in a police uniform detonated an explosive belt during a meeting of tribal sheiks opposed to al-Qaida in Iraq. In addition to the Marines, two Iraqi interpreters, the local mayor and several key tribal figures were killed.

The Associated Press Friday, June 27, 2008; 11:12 PM BRISBANE, Australia -- Australian troops who served in Iraq were celebrated at a welcome home parade on Saturday that also marked the withdrawal of the ...

INDONESIA says it will speed up the execution process for drug traffickers, in a major blow for three Australians on death row for heroin smuggling.

Fonterra may link with National Foods and Warrnambool Cheese and Butter in a joint bid for Australia's Dairy Farmers, which is valued at up to A$1 billion , according to Australian media reports.

Shares plunged as much as 3% on the Australian market today, wiping up to $37 billion off the value of the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index.

If there is any referendum on child discipline laws it will be held by postal ballot in 2009, Prime Minister Helen Clark said today.

June 26, 2008 - 12:29 a.m. An Oregon doctor charged with manslaughter in the deaths of three patients at an Australian hospital plans to agree to extradition to stand trial.

Officials say a strong earthquake in the South Pacific has shaken homes and other buildings in Tonga, but there were no immediate reports of injury or damage.

TELSTRA has momentarily suspended its attack on the Labor Government over speculation the telco might be structurally separated, and refocused its ire on the federal Opposition, which it accuses of "fiddling" ...

Sydney travellers have been hardest hit by more Qantas cancellations today. Twenty-six flights have been scrapped from today's domestic schedule and all of them were in or out of Sydney, according to a ...

THE Rudd Government has signalled a significant toughening of its approach to Chinese investment, formally delaying an attempt by a Chinese company to buy into a West Australian iron ore miner.

Drinkers at an Outback watering hole may have wondered if perhaps they'd had one too many when they were greeted by a crocodile at the pub's door.

New Zealanders intending visit the United Kingdom for up to six months will continue to have free visa access, Prime Minister Helen Clark said today.

Keith Jackson's notes for people associated with the former Australian School of Pacific Administration and for ex PNG people everywhere.

The nation's farmers desperately need access to broadband internet links, and they need it more than many "townies" says Federated Farmers.

HUNGRY and poor Papua New Guinea village women are swapping sex for canned fish, a women's leader says.

Seven indigenous Maori tribes have signed New Zealand's largest-ever settlement over grievances arising from 19th century losses of lands, forests and fisheries during European settlement of the country.

Full house … the home of the children. Photo: David Mariuz Penelope Debelle and Carol Nader VICTORIAN and South Australian governments struggled to establish when they could have intervened in the case ...

A woman aged 28 was charged in Adelaide last night with five counts of criminal neglect after police and welfare agencies raided two houses where up to 21 children were living in abject squalor.

The New Zealand parliament passed a motion Tuesday expressing outrage at violence and intimidation in Zimbabwe and calling on President Robert Mugabe to step down for the good of his country.