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Patients at nearly half the country's district health boards are waiting longer than they should for urgent tests to detect bowel cancer. Audio

Fifteen personnel died when an aircraft was downed by Syrian fire after Israel launched an air raid.

Overseas buyers are legally required to get consent to buy sensitive land, but the lack of consent does not stop people actually buying that land.

In June, PNG became one of the few countries to buck an international trend towards eradicating polio. With 12 cases confirmed and as many as 100 suspected, experts say the return of polio was years…

Zimbabwe has issued a ban on all public gatherings and illegal food vending to control the spread of cholera, which has killed 21 people in the capital Harare.

The US is considering sanctions against senior Chinese officials and companies associated with a "worsening crackdown" on minority Muslims in the Xinjiang region.

A leading Papua New Guinea health official has warned that communities with poor water and sanitation conditions in the capital are most at risk of the spread of polio.

Underground miners in outback Western Australia have unearthed rare gold specimens which geologists are calling a "once-in-a-lifetime discovery".

An indigenous social scientist has given an alarming message in Parliament about how Māori have been excluded from the management and prevention of kauri dieback.

A Dargaville vet has told Northland farmers what the government refuses to reveal: the location of the farm confirmed to be infected with mycoplasma bovis.

Christchurch Men's Prison director John Roper has been sacked after a review looking into security issues at the prison.

New Zealand Pork is calling for greater border protection against the spread of African swine fever, a deadly pig disease which is sweeping through China and Eastern Europe.

Australia will help its regional neighbours set up a Pacific Fusion Centre to strengthen the ability of Pacific governments to enforce their laws.

Australia will help the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency with a new aerial surveillance programme to fight illegal fishing.

Libya's coastguard is stepping up efforts to halt migrants and asylum seekers crossing the Mediterranean, but more deaths are occuring as traffickers take bigger risks.

The Corrections officer in charge of surveillance at the country's maximum security prison says a security camera recording an emergency incident was turned away. Video

A boat found abandoned in crocodile-infested waters in Australia is believed to be a "people smuggling venture", the nation's government says.

The former US Army soldier who in 2013 was sentenced to 35 years in prison for leaking classified documents to Wikileaks says it's been difficult to adjust to life outside prison. Audio

Two siblings have been jailed for supplying methamphetamine linked to a boat that washed up on 90 Mile Beach.

A Raglan company has created a drone to help with conservation work in South Africa.

The Environmental Protection Authority has given the green-light to the use of a predator to fight any invasion by the brown marmorated stink bug.

Legislation has been rushed through to its final reading at Parliament today to beef up the country's animal tracking system, NAIT.