2 patients killed at Aussie psychiatric hospital
AP - 3 days ago

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - A psychiatric patient was charged Thursday with two counts of murder in the overnight stabbing deaths of two men who were also patients at an Australian hospital.

UN food agency says 200 million more people hungry
AP - 2 weeks ago

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Most of the developing world is paying more for food despite drops in commodity market prices during the global economic slowdown, with 200 million people joining the ranks of the hungry in the past two years, the U.N. World Food Program said Monday.

Leech leads Australian police to armed robber
AP - 3 weeks ago

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - A leech found at a crime scene eight years ago led Australian police to a man who admitted robbing an elderly woman in 2001, officials said Tuesday.

Australian teen sailor starts round-the-world bid
AP - 3 weeks ago

SYDNEY (AP) - A 16-year-old Australian steered her bright pink yacht out of Sydney Harbor on Sunday to start her bid to become the youngest person to sail solo and unassisted around the world.

Baby OK after train hits stroller in Australia
AP - 4 weeks ago

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - A 6-month-old baby has miraculously survived a train hitting his stroller, which rolled onto the tracks when his mother let go for an instant.

NASA flies over Antarctica to measure icemelt
AP - 4 weeks ago

ABOVE ANTARCTICA (AP) - Hoping to better understand how a melting Antarctica could swamp the planet, a NASA plane outfitted with lasers and ground-penetrating radar made its first flight over the icy continent on Friday.

5 men found guilty of Australian terror plot
AP - 4 weeks ago

SYDNEY (AP) - Five Muslim men were convicted Friday of plotting Australia's largest terrorist conspiracy as part of a bid to force the government to change its policy on Middle East conflicts.

New quakes, small tsunami panic Pacific islanders
AP - 4 weeks ago

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - Thousands of panicked South Pacific islanders raced away from coastlines after a series of strong earthquakes rocked the region and generated a small tsunami Thursday, just over a week after a massive wave killed 178 people in the Samoas and Tonga.

Aussie dad on trial for dropping girl off bridge
AP - 1 month ago

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - A man accused of throwing his 4-year-old daughter off of a Melbourne bridge has pleaded not guilty to her murder.

Samoans plan new lives away from the sea
AP - 1 month ago

LALOMANU, Samoa (AP) - Samoans who fled to the hills as a deadly tsunami tore through their villages last week began searching for materials to build new homes far above the sea that washed away their dwellings and many loved ones.