Australia and New Zealand

A fern from a Pacific island carries 50 times as much DNA as humans do.

The art is accessible, the attendees cut across the social spectrum and the architecture beguiles.

The number of Indians abroad is small relative to the country’s population. Indian political parties want their support anyway.

Plus, South Africa goes to the polls

The sole known copy of the album “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” was not to be heard by the public until 2103. Some fans will be able to hear a selection of the 31 tracks at a museum in Hobart, Tasmania.

The Lord Howe Island stick insect vanished from its home, but an effort at zoos in San Diego and Melbourne highlights the possibilities and challenges of conserving invertebrate animals.

Just getting to survivors has proved to be an enormous challenge, with a blocked highway and unstable ground “posing ongoing danger” to rescue workers.

Nearly 4,000 people live in villages that were engulfed, a local official said. Unstable debris was complicating search and rescue efforts in a rural part of the Pacific nation.

Many more were missing in the Pacific nation as recovery and rescue efforts were delayed by a blocked highway and fallen boulders.

The government has committed hundreds of millions of dollars for people fleeing domestic violence, but among those who work with victims and survivors, optimism is hard to find.

John S. Jacobs was a fugitive, an abolitionist — and the brother of the canonical author Harriet Jacobs. Now, his own fierce autobiography has re-emerged.

Justine Payton was drawn to a Hare Krishna ashram for its yoga, meditation and vegan meals. She’s still figuring out what went wrong.

The WikiLeaks founder won his bid to appeal his extradition to the United States on espionage charges, opening a new chapter in a prolonged legal battle.

A hearing on Monday will determine whether Julian Assange has any more recourse in the British courts to appeal his extradition to the United States.

At a sanctuary on New Zealand’s North Island, the long-endangered flightless birds have grown so much in number that they are being transported to other areas to start new colonies.

New research shows the “upside-down trees” originated in Madagascar and then caught a ride on ocean currents to reach mainland Africa and Australia.

Estudios recientes ponen en duda que las intervenciones en salud mental a gran escala le hacen bien a los niños y adolescentes. Algunos, incluso, sugieren que pueden tener un efecto negativo.

As the death toll in Gaza has risen, countries have turned their backs on Israel. The consequences of those desertions, from security to economics, risk turning Israel into a pariah.

Many isolated Indigenous communities are dependent on fragile supply chains. This year, floods made that dramatically clear.

Los guardabosques indígenas del desierto occidental de Australia pudieron observar de cerca al topo marsupial del norte, un animal diminuto, de color claro y ciego que casi nunca sale a la superficie.

Recent studies cast doubt on whether large-scale mental health interventions are making young people better. Some even suggest they can have a negative effect.

Qantas, Australia’s national carrier, apologized and said it would pay a fine and compensation to settle a suit brought by a consumer watchdog.

The episode occurred just weeks after two major stabbing attacks in the country. The youth had been under monitoring for having extremist tendencies.

Student activists in Australia, Britain, France and elsewhere are challenging their universities’ stances on the war in Gaza and ties to Israel.

Brought to life by the Australian director Peter Weir, the movie’s conflict reflects a collective cultural trait his fellow citizens can relate to.

Indigenous rangers in Australia’s Western Desert got a rare close-up with the northern marsupial mole, which is tiny, light-colored and blind, and almost never comes to the surface.

The Harley Owners Group in Alice Springs is what’s known as a social motorcycle club, with the emphasis on social.

160 pilot whales were stranded across a wide swath of beach at the Toby Inlet near the town of Dunsborough in Western Australia, wildlife officials said.

Of the 160 whales stranded near the town of Dunsborough on Thursday morning, more than 100 were returned to the ocean. Twenty-nine others, however, died on the beach.

Every art institution now speaks of progress, justice, transformation. What if all those words hide a more old-fashioned aim?

Mr. Musk’s defiance over removing content is testing the boundaries of international legal systems.

Avani Dias said that she had been denied a visa renewal for weeks because of her reporting on the Sikh separatist movement. Indian officials disputed her account.

Moore, an Indigenous Australian artist, won the Golden Lion for “kith and kin,” which draws on what he says is 65,000 years of family history.

Amid early tidbits of misinformation came lessons about dodging falsities and allowing facts to build a story.

Drug parcels kept showing up on beaches along Australia’s shoreline. Now, the police say they found the man behind the botched shipment.

Feral cats take a heavy toll on the world’s wildlife, especially Down Under. The solution? Smarter traps, sharpshooters, survival camp for prey species, and the “Felixer.”

More than three years after Brittany Higgins went public with her claim of rape, her case reached a conclusion of sorts.

Quince de las 18 víctimas del sábado eran mujeres. Aunque es posible que nunca se conozcan los motivos del agresor, muchos afirman que el incidente pone de manifiesto un problema mayor.

El episodio de violencia del sábado en un centro comercial horrorizó a un país poco acostumbrado a este tipo de actos.

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in the attack, in which several people were injured. An official said the episode appeared to have been motivated by religious extremism.