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A boy charged with the killing of Liberty Templeman has been found guilty of murder.

The ferry that sank off Tonga in August was a rustbucket, the company secretary of owner Pacific Shipping Corporation has told an inquiry.

A senior Chinese naval officer has proposed that China establish a permanent naval base in the Gulf of Aden to support Chinese ships taking part in anti-piracy operations.

The lawyer acting for the jailed French Polynesian veteran politician, Gaston Flosse, says legal action will be taken against the Nouvelles de Tahiti newspaper for its publication of leaked…

More evidence of rust on the ferry Princess Ashika has emerged at the Royal Commission into its sinking earlier this year in Tongan waters. A welder and fitter for the...

More evidence of rust on the ferry "Princess Ashika" has emerged at the Royal Commission into its sinking in Tongan waters earlier this year.

A different view of early contacts with Maori is emerging from the archives of the Vatican - showing French Catholic priests had a markedly different approach to Maori than their English Anglican…

The FBI has issued documents which show Saddam Hussein let the world believe he had weapons of mass destruction because he did not want to reveal lraq's weakness to Iran.

The Crown case against David Bain has ended after nine weeks of evidence in his retrial.

A transcript of the evidence David Bain gave at his first trial has been read to the jury as he is retried for the murder of his 5 immediate family members.

The woman who gave birth to eight babies last week has spoken about them for the first time. Nadya Suleman says they were born from sperm donated by a friend.

The mother of six who gave birth to octuplets in January says she always wanted a "huge family" and tried for years to get pregnant before conceiving her first child through in vitro fertilisation.

Housing minister Phil Heatley is adamant he said publicly before the election that no state houses would be built under any National-led government for two or three years.

China says it will allow demonstrations in three designated city parks during the Olympic Games in Beijing. But anyone wanting to protest will have to apply for permission from the city's ...

The Solomon Islands Police Force is investigating claims by the current Prime Minister Mannaseh Sogavare that the head of the local chapter of Transparency International made defamatory statements…

The College of the Marshall Islands has another six months to save its American college accreditation. It has been on notice or "show cause" for six months and this week...

Formal charges are yet to be laid against seven men in connection with a deadly riot in Kiribati. Police restored law and order on the remote island of Butaritari, following...

A verdict in the treason trial of Fiji coup accomplices, Josefa Nata and Timoci Silatolu, is now unlikely this afternoon. This follows several delays caused by requests for documents and...

The Suva High Court has been told that the deputy Speaker of Fiji's parliament and government MP, Ratu Rakuita Vakalalabure, was an integral part of the coup. Radio Fiji reports...