Southeast Asian leaders gather for their first summit in Sydney at the weekend as Australia sets the stage for closer economic and security links to its nearest neighbors and demonstrators prepare to protest Myanmar and Cambodia's human rights records

New Zealand censures its second-ranking diplomat in Washington for sending tweets saying U.S. Democrats needed to get their act together for the next presidential election "or we will all die"

The alleged victims of the most senior Vatican official ever charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis have finished testifying to an Australian court

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei says it doesn't matter if China has a change in leaders or not, the culture and the system there will always remain the same

The U.S. appears set to grant Australia an exemption from its new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports following discussions between President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull

The tiny Marshall Islands is creating its own digital currency in order to raise some hard cash to pay bills and boost the economy

Australia's prime minister says his government will not consider options for resettling refugees languishing on Pacific islands until the United States fulfills its promise to take up to 1,250 of them.

Newly released documents show a troubled teenager who wanted to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II during her 1981 visit to New Zealand fired a shot near her motorcade

A top diplomat says Australia's relationship with China is going through "complex and difficult issues" but rejects a report of a diplomatic deep freeze

More than 57,000 illegal firearms including a rocket launcher and machine guns were handed in during Australia's recent amnesty in which gun owners were able to surrender such weapons without penalty