A shooting has left two people dead in the centre of Auckland, New Zealand, hours before the city is due to open the Fifa Women's World Cup.
An Australian sailor who survived two months in the Pacific Ocean by eating raw fish and drinking rainwater is "stable and very well", a doctor says.
About 50,000 people have been urged to evacuate their homes as floods hit Australia's largest city for the third time this year.
Australia's new Labor government has secured a majority in parliament, election analysts say.
Anthony Albanese has been sworn in as Australia's new leader and will fly immediately to an international summit.
Australia has placed sanctions on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko for supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Australia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement Friday.
Sydney has reopened its beaches two days after a British swimmer died in the city's first fatal shark attack in 59 years.
A 5.9 magnitude earthquake has rattled southeast Australia, damaging buildings in the city of Melbourne.
Police in New Zealand shot and killed a "violent extremist" after he stabbed and wounded at least six people in an Auckland supermarket.
A Covid outbreak in Sydney linked to the highly contagious Delta variant has grown to 128 cases.
Russia's unmanned Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon after spinning out of control, officials say.
Donald Trump has confirmed that he will not take part in Republican presidential debates with his rivals in the race for the White House.