Battle of Tarawa remembered on 65th anniversary
AP - 1 day ago
TARAWA, Kiribati (AP) - Master Sgt. James M. Fawcett got on his knees and gently mixed his father's ashes with sand on the same Pacific beach where the elder Fawcett fought his way ashore 65 years ago.
Police to end restrictions on ex-Gitmo detainee
AP - 1 day ago
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Australian police said Thursday they will stop restricting the movements and communications of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee after he broke his long media silence to ask them to let him "get on with" his life.
Australian adult industry flirts with politics
AP - 1 day ago
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - The name may seem like a joke, but the Australian Sex Party is serious — serious about sex, according to their slogan.
Australia temporarily shuts down navy
AP - 4 days ago
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Australia's navy gets a big Christmas gift this year: two months paid vacation for most sailors that will ease the effects of a recruiting slump but make the service Down Under look something like a part-time operation.
New NZ government will have Maori ministers
AP - 6 days ago
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - The party representing New Zealand's indigenous Maori people will get its first Cabinet posts under a multiparty deal Prime Minister-elect John Key signed Sunday to form a center-right minority government.
Australian gets jail time for euthanasia
AP - 1 week ago
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Alzheimer's battered Graeme Wylie so much that he could no longer recall his own birthday or remember that he had children. But, his partner said, Wylie did know this: Life was no longer worth living.
New Zealand enters new era of conservative rule
AP - 2 weeks ago
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - New Zealand entered a new era of conservative rule Sunday, with incoming Prime Minister John Key promising to be a moderate amid fears some of the country's policies on global warming and indigenous people could be rolled back.
Indonesia executes 3 in Bali nightclub bombings
AP - 2 weeks ago
CILACAP, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesia executed three Islamic militants Saturday for helping plan and carry out the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, many of them foreign tourists.
Extremist leader in Iraq sends message to US
AP - 3 weeks ago
BAGHDAD (AP) - The self-styled leader of an Iraqi al-Qaida front group is calling on President-elect Obama and other Western leaders to withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Magnitude 6.3 quake strikes off Vanuatu
AP - 3 weeks ago
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - A strong earthquake has struck near the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu, but police say were no immediate reports of injury or damage.