Australia's deputy prime minister is under pressure to resign as his party's leader over revelations of a relationship with a former staffer who is now pregnant

AP interview: Qatar Airways chief executive says carrier will post an annual loss amid a boycott by neighboring countries, but the Middle East's second largest airline will continue to grow

The Pacific nation of Tonga is cleaning up damage from a cyclone that destroyed its Parliament House, as well as homes and churches, and was intensifying as it headed toward nearby Fiji

New Zealand's opposition leader Bill English is leaving Parliament after losing last year's election

An Australian prime minister who a decade ago set an ambitious timetable for ending indigenous disadvantage has blamed a lack of government funding for slow progress

The prime minister has talked down the need in Australia for a U.S.-style ban on legislators having sex with staff, but declined to say whether he had intervened in his deputy's relationship with a press secretary

Australia's prime minister says he will apologize to victims of child sex abuse in churches and other institutions

A report has found that Australia has failed to close the gap between the life expectancies of its Aboriginal and non-indigenous people and the difference is widening

Opener David Willey has hit Australia test offspinner Nathan Lyon for 34 runs in one over to lead England to a Twenty20 victory over an Australian Prime Minister's XI by eight wickets in Canberra

A former Australian prime minister who was a leader of the national campaign against gay marriage last year has attended the same-sex wedding of his lesbian sister in Sydney.