Australasia

At Uluru, also referred to as Ayers Rock, park rangers have reported dramatic waterfalls.

Rains bring life to Australia's burning heart

Water cascades down Uluru and desert turns green after rare summer downpours

Inside Australasia

Prince William begins first official overseas trip

Sunday, 17 January 2010

Prince William arrived in New Zealand to begin his first official overseas trip on behalf of the Queen.

Strife on the ocean waves as surf rage grips Australia

Friday, 15 January 2010

Sydney beach forced to display etiquette of the sea as novice board-riders anger locals

42 tons of poison to purge island of rats

Wednesday, 13 January 2010

Desperate measure to save Lord Howe Island's native species

Melbourne sweats through hottest night in 108 years

Tuesday, 12 January 2010

The Australian city of Melbourne has sweltered through its hottest night since 1902, with temperatures topping 34 degrees Celsius (93 degrees Fahrenheit), meteorologists said today.

Conservationists file piracy claim against whalers

Saturday, 9 January 2010

A conservationist group that lost one of its ships in a clash with Japanese whalers off Antarctica has filed a piracy complaint in the Netherlands against the captain and crew of the whaling vessel.

The gentleman robber who mourned at his own funeral

Thursday, 7 January 2010

Descendant tells what really happened to Australia's Robin Hood

Japanese whaler rams hi-tech protest boat

Wednesday, 6 January 2010

Kathy Marks: Collision was dramatic escalation of hostilities between Japan’s whaling fleet and militant protesters.

Tsunami leaves 1,000 homeless

Wednesday, 6 January 2010

Landslides and a tsunami left about a third of the people on a Solomon island homeless, but lives were saved as residents with memories of previous disasters fled quickly to higher ground, officials said.

Antarctic's first plane found in ice

Monday, 4 January 2010

In 1912 Australian explorer Douglas Mawson planned to fly over the southern pole. His lost plane has now been found. Kathy Marks reports

Wreckage of 1912 plane in Antarctica is discovered

Sunday, 3 January 2010

Remains of the first plane taken to Antarctica, in 1912, have been found by Australian researchers. The Mawson's Huts Foundation had been searching for the plane, last seen in the mid-1970s, for three summers before stumbling on pieces of it on New Year's Day.

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