Copyright © 2008 Yahoo! Philippines Pte. Ltd. (Co. Reg. No. 199700735D). All Rights Reserved. http://beta.ph.news.yahoo.com/asia-pacific-australia.html en-en Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:53:00 +0800 5 http://beta.ph.news.yahoo.com/asia-pacific-australia.html http://l.yimg.com/hb/i/ph/mastheads/210x47_ph_news.gif 30 140 http://ph.news.yahoo.com/ap/20081010/tap-as-australia-prison-riot-1st-ld-writ-79704af.html /ap/20081010/r_t_ap_ap_au/tap-as-australia-prison-riot-1st-ld-writ-79704af_1 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:53:00 +0800 Prisoners rioting at an Australian prison surrendered Friday, 24 hours after chasing away guards and climbing to the rooftop to denounce overcrowding and ill treatment at the jail, police said. AP http://ph.news.yahoo.com/ap/20081010/tap-as-australia-prison-riot-79704af.html /ap/20081010/r_t_ap_ap_au/tap-as-australia-prison-riot-79704af_1 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:09:00 +0800 About 40 high-security prisoners rioted for a second day Friday against overcrowding at their South Australia prison, officials said. AP http://ph.news.yahoo.com/ap/20081009/tap-as-australia-qantas-plane-plunge-79704af.html /ap/20081009/r_t_ap_ap_au/tap-as-australia-qantas-plane-plunge-79704af_2 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:29:00 +0800 Qantas Airways said Thursday it will financially compensate all passengers who were on board a plane that made a terrifying plunge this week, tossing people around the cabin and injuring dozens. AP http://ph.news.yahoo.com/ap/20081009/tap-as-australia-priest-charged-79704af.html /ap/20081009/r_t_ap_ap_au/tap-as-australia-priest-charged-79704af_1 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:29:00 +0800 Australian police say they have arrested a Catholic priest and another man and charged them with a total of 35 child sex offenses against teenage boys in the 1970s. AP http://ph.news.yahoo.com/afp/20081008/tap-australia-air-emergency-incident-5a1703c.html /afp/20081008/r_t_afp_ap_au/tap-australia-air-emergency-incident-5a1703c_3 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:25:00 +0800 A computer glitch may have caused a Qantas jet to plunge mid-flight, an investigator said Wednesday as passengers told how they were slammed against the cabin roof in the terrifying drama. AFP http://ph.news.yahoo.com/ap/20081008/tap-as-australia-qantas-altitude-change-79704af.html /ap/20081008/r_t_ap_ap_au/tap-as-australia-qantas-altitude-change-79704af Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:28:00 +0800 Australia's air safety bureau is investigating the sudden altitude plunge of a Qantas airplane that left as many as 40 people injured, 20 of them seriously, during a flight from Singapore to the Western Australian city of Perth. AP http://ph.news.yahoo.com/ap/20081007/tap-as-australia-asylum-seekers-79704af.html /ap/20081007/r_t_ap_ap_au/tap-as-australia-asylum-seekers-79704af_1 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:32:00 +0800 Authorities will take 17 illegal immigrants who were caught in Australian waters to an island detention facility to determine if they qualify for refugee status, the immigration minister said Tuesday. AP http://ph.news.yahoo.com/afp/20081007/tap-australia-immigration-refugees-5a1703c.html /afp/20081007/r_t_afp_ap_au/tap-australia-immigration-refugees-5a1703c_1 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:57:00 +0800 The Australian Navy has detained 17 suspected asylum seekers at sea just a week after a boatload of Afghans, Iranians and Indonesians was intercepted off the country's coast, officials said Tuesday. AFP http://ph.news.yahoo.com/afp/20081005/tap-australia-language-offbeat-5a1703c.html /afp/20081005/r_t_afp_ap_au/tap-australia-language-offbeat-5a1703c_1 Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:49:00 +0800 Australians who sound like crocodile hunter Steve Irwin or Crocodile Dundee actor Paul Hogan could soon be a relic of the past, a report said on Sunday. AFP http://ph.news.yahoo.com/ap/20081004/tap-as-australia-zoo-carnage-79704af.html /ap/20081004/r_t_ap_ap_au/tap-as-australia-zoo-carnage-79704af Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:43:00 +0800 A 7-year-old boy broke into a popular Outback zoo, fed a string of animals to the resident crocodile and bashed several lizards to death with a rock, the zoo's director said Friday. AP