Taiwan says it's confident it can protect the island, after China started two days of "punishment" drills around Taiwan in what it said was a response to "separatist acts".
Three New Zealanders injured on the Singapore Airlines flight that encountered severe turbulence are in hospital in Bangkok, one of them in intensive care.
Queensland's police minister has slammed unknown culprits making threats to a local MP and her staff in a regional town, saying they lack decency and respect.
A French-operated flight will bring stranded New Zealanders to Brisbane, with a New Zealand Defence Force flight arranged for the travel from Brisbane to New Zealand.
Donald Trump deleted a video posted to his Truth Social account that included reference to a "unified Reich" after criticism of the use of language often associated with the Nazi regime.
Testing is under way to determine if a strain of avian flu detected in a Victorian egg farm is the deadly new strain causing mass bird deaths around the world.
Researchers are predicting aircraft to experience a doubling or trebling of severe turbulence in the coming decades "if the climate continues to change as we expect".
Scarlett Johansson accused OpenAI of creating a voice for the ChatGPT system that sounded "eerily similar" to the actress after she declined to voice the chatbot herself.
The International Criminal Court's prosecutor says he has requested arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his defence chief and three Hamas leaders over alleged war...
Sunday was the 80th anniversary of what many military historians believe to have been one of the bloodiest campaigns fought by New Zealanders in World War 2.
Australia and NZ have been unable to send in evacuation flights for tourists stranded in New Caledonia, amid deadly rioting, despite 1000 police deployed from France to restore order.
Taiwan's new president faces an angry and deeply suspicious China that believes he is a "separatist", and a fractious parliament with an opposition champing at the bit to challenge him.