A grenade explosion has killed two people and wounded at least 30 others outside a crowded bar in the southern Philippines.

Australia today apologised to its indigenous people for past treatment that "inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss," in a historic parliamentary vote.

Graphic pictures of Japanese hunters harpooning whales and dragging their carcasses aboard a ship near Antarctica were evidence of “indiscriminate” slaughter, Australia said today.

The government of Australia’s Tasmania state today ordered an independent inquiry into a gold mine collapse that killed one man and left two others trapped underground for 14 days.