Rod Mcguirk

Australia’s prime minister, Julia Gillard has announced a sharp reversal in her government’s policy on asylum seekers on Monday.

Roman Catholic hospitals in Australia apologised on Monday for forcing unmarried mothers to give up babies for adoption decades ago.

Owsley "Bear" Stanley, who worked with The Grateful Dead and was a prolific LSD producer, died in a car crash in Australia, his family said on Monday.

Owsley Stanley, a 1960s counterculture icon who worked with The Grateful Dead and was a prolific LSD producer, died in a car crash in Australia.

Last week’s earthquake, which caused an estimated $15-billion in damage to Christchurch, has become New Zealand’s most expensive natural disaster.