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Australian police say an 8-year-old girl has died from being accidentally shot in the head with an arrow.
Members of an Australian class action lawsuit who blame a German pharmaceutical company's anti-morning sickness drug, Thalidomide, for causing birth defects won the right on Monday to have their case heard in their own country.
A second major tobacco company has gone to Australia's High Court to argue that new laws banning logos from cigarette packs are unconstitutional.
Apple Inc. won a small victory on Friday in its global patent battle with rival Samsung, after Australia's highest court temporarily extended a ban on sales of Samsung's Galaxy tablet computers in the country.
Qantas Airways and union workers met Monday for their first negotiating session since the Australian airline grounded its entire fleet late last month over a bitter labor dispute.
An Australian court on Wednesday overturned a judgment that found the once-popular painkiller Vioxx doubled the risk of heart attack and was unfit for consumption.
In a Lithuanian cemetery, a world away from ground zero, the twin towers still stand. Vladimir Gavriushin lays white roses near the 6-foot granite replicas of the World Trade Center's skyscrapers, a memorial he built to honor his daughter Yelena, one of the nearly 3,000 people killed on Sept. 11.
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said Wednesday he is negotiating with multiple Asian governments to find a base for a new premium airline that the Australian carrier hopes will turnaround its loss-making international business.
A Canadian sailor whose yacht broke apart in rough seas off southwest Australia was rescued Tuesday and is in good health aboard a ship heading for the Canary Islands.
Australia's prime minister on Tuesday touted a $5 billion bid for one of the nation's coal miners as proof an unpopular new tax on the country's worst polluters won't cause the collapse of Australia's lucrative coal industry.
Australia lifted a ban on its $350 million a year live cattle trade with Indonesia on Wednesday, with the federal government saying a new set of strict conditions on exporters will help ensure the animals are treated humanely.
Tobacco giant Philip Morris International launched legal action on Monday against the Australian government over the country's plans to strip company logos from cigarette packages and replace them with grisly images of cancerous mouths, sickly children and bulging, blinded eyes.
Zoom in for a snapshot of apparent normalcy: children sitting in a circle, clasping playing cards tightly in their hands. They laugh, chat and occasionally hop up to break into a goofy dance.
Business is brisk for Steve Crosby, who is helping switch the lights back on in this ruined city by selling portable generators from a van parked in roadside rubble. But thousands of other businesses remain closed — perhaps indefinitely — by an earthquake that has become New Zealand's most expensive natural disaster.
The owners of a building that collapsed in the New Zealand earthquake, killing up to 120 people, say a recent engineers report found no problems with its structural integrity.
Murky freshwater runoff from Australia's worst flooding in decades is adding to stresses from pollution and warming seas on the Great Barrier Reef, one of the world's most fragile ecosystems.
The cyclone that tore through Australia's northeast this week brought fresh misery to people in the south on Saturday, causing flash flooding in the second-largest city even as residents in far distant towns returned to ruined homes.
Military helicopters evacuated hospital patients Tuesday as authorities ordered thousands of people to flee a powerful, "life-threatening" cyclone roaring toward waterlogged northeast Australia.
Japanese whalers shot water cannons at anti-whaling activists on Saturday, the conservationist group's founder claimed, hours after the activists tracked down the hunting fleet in the remote and icy seas off Antarctica.
An American man convicted in the death of his wife during a honeymoon scuba dive was released from an Australian jail Thursday and taken into immigration custody, where he will remain until officials are convinced he won't face the death penalty if sent home.
Rolls-Royce will temporarily replace any oil-leaking engines like the one that caught fire and blew apart on a Qantas superjumbo jet earlier this month, an aviation official said Monday.
Costly warning systems installed across Asia since the deadly 2004 tsunami did nothing to save villagers on these remote Indonesian islands who saw homes and loved ones swept away by a giant wave this week.
A thumbnail-sized frog with a long snout, a brilliant green katydid with bright pink eyes and a mouse with a white-tipped tail are among 200 species scientists have discovered in Papua New Guinea.
Three former Australian commandos are facing serious charges in relation to a late-night raid on a compound in Afghanistan that killed five children, Australia's top military prosecutor said Monday.
A group of asylum seekers protested on the roof of an Australian detention center where they were being held Tuesday, saying they were scared of being returned to their home countries and upset over the death of a fellow detainee who was about to be deported.
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