January 5, 2017 Australia scrambles to heal military rift with Indonesia Australia scrambled to calm tensions with Indonesia on Thursday, promising that an investigation was nearly complete into an alleged insult of Indonesian state ideology that prompted Indonesia to suspend military cooperation with its neighbor.
January 5, 2017 Match-fixing charge surfaces ahead of Australian Open Match-fixing in tennis is back on the radar, less than two weeks before the Australian Open.
January 5, 2017 Magnitude 7.2 quake hits near Fiji; tsunami alert issued Authorities say a magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit near the Fiji Islands, causing a tsunami warning for parts of the pacific near the nation in the south Pacific Ocean.
January 4, 2017 Indonesia suspends military cooperation with Australia Indonesia says it has suspended military cooperation with Australia over an alleged insult of Indonesia's state ideology.
January 4, 2017 Recent developments surrounding the South China Sea A look at recent developments in the South China Sea, where China is pitted against smaller neighbors in multiple disputes over islands, coral reefs and lagoons in waters crucial for global commerce and rich in fish and potential oil and gas reserves: ___ EDITOR'S NOTE: This is a weekly look at the latest key developments in the South China Sea, home to several territorial conflicts that have raised tensions in the region.
January 4, 2017 Chinese renewable power giant builds global empire Other investors are wary of Brazil, but when Duke Energy wanted to sell 10 hydroelectric dams there, a Chinese utility shrugged off the country's economic turmoil and paid $1.2 billion to add them to an energy empire that stretches from Malaysia to Germany to the Amazon.
January 3, 2017 MH370 search ship leaves Australia for perhaps final time A lone survey vessel has left an Australian port for perhaps the final time to search for the Malaysian airliner that mysteriously crashed into the southern Indian Ocean two years ago, officials said Tuesday.
January 3, 2017 New MH370 analysis suggests no one at controls during crash A fresh analysis of the final moments of doomed Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 suggests no one was controlling the plane when it plunged into the ocean, according to a report released by investigators on Wednesday, as experts hunting for the aircraft gathered in Australia's capital to discuss the fading search effort.
January 3, 2017 Australian teen charged with plotting alleged terror attack A teenager has been charged with plotting a terrorist attack on an Australian Veteran's Day ceremony.
December 30, 2016 60 injured in crowd crush at Australian music festival Sixty people were injured at an Australian music festival in the crush of a crowd trying to leave a performance, police said Saturday.
