Zeinaba Mahr Aouad, 24, a resident of Djibouti, survied female genital mutilation when she was 10. Now a volunteer for the “Elle & Elles” network, with the support of UNFPA, she canvasses her ...

Wondeful shots of African women and giraffes roaming Kenyan grasslands were judged the most outstanding photographs of the ...

Under international law, countries are obligated to receive their own citizens who are deported by another country. But in ...

A round-up of news in brief from around the region, including the autonomous Papua New Guinea region preparing for its mid-year elections. Tonga – parliament Tonga’s new Prime Minister ...

Lavinia Tyrrel is the CEO of Karinya House, helping vulnerable mothers in Canberra. We ask her how she got here.

The New Zealander had learnt first-hand from his father, who was a legendary All Blacks Sevens coach. Read more at ...

The Tonga Tala netball team is wary of the challenge they will receive at the PacificAUS Netball series in Brisbane next ...

Samantha Harvey’s Booker-winning novel 'Orbital' is far more than science-fiction; it raises deeper questions about what it ...

At least 15 women and children have been killed in a massacre in Papua New Guinea. Pregnant women were among the victims of the tribal raids, which took place in Karida, a village of about 800 people ...

With her permission, Officer Matthew Johnson said he would go to Cowan’s east side home and check on the welfare of her pet guinea pig, Lucifer. Cowan had repeatedly expressed ... which can allow ...

The discovery that scurvy, a debilitating illness caused by vitamin C deficiency, could be treated with citrus fruit ...

10.45pm: So, the wait goes on for England. After arriving with high hopes, they have now lost four on the spin - although Australia won't be satisfied until the Ashes are won outright, having been ...