WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd urged the United States on Tuesday to take more action on climate change and become more involved in the global debate on the issue. More »
SYDNEY, Australia - Life can get a little lonely for bachelors in the Australian Outback mining town of Mount Isa. More »
PERTH, Australia - An 86-year-old man accused of killing a Jewish teenager in Hungary during World War II spent hours assaulting the young man before he died, a prosecutor alleged Monday. More »
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A New Zealand helicopter search team has found six missing Australian climbers alive high on a South Island mountain Saturday, after a break in severe weather allowed the chopper to fly into the area, searchers said. More »
CANBERRA, Australia - The government should give Australia's coal-burning electricity companies more financial incentives to invest in technology to capture and bury the greenhouse gas they produce, a parliamentary report said Friday. More »
SYDNEY, Australia - Australian police and customs officials say they have seized 1,455 pounds (660 kilograms) of pseudoephedrine that was imported to the country in fruit juice containers from Thailand. More »
SYDNEY, Australia - Australian authorities announced Thursday a campaign against a burgeoning black market in scrap copper that has seen thieves steal power lines and even school taps and is costing the nation millions of dollars. More »
CANBERRA, Australia - Australia will send 1 million Australian dollars (US$870,000) in emergency aid to assist the thousands of Georgians affected by the conflict with Russia, the Australian foreign minister said Thursday. More »
MELBOURNE, Australia - The judge in the trial of 12 alleged Islamic terrorists suspected of plotting to bomb an Australian Rules football final told jurors Wednesday not to let anti-Muslim prejudice influence the verdict. More »
SYDNEY, Australia - An investigation of Qantas Airways will be expanded after the company announced it temporarily pulled six aircraft from service because of irregularities in maintenance records, Australia's airline safety body said Wednesday. More »