The Philippines is in talks with the United States as well as Australia on future joint patrols in the South China Sea, where China’s increasingly aggressive actions in the disputed waters are causing concern, top defense officials in the three nations said Wednesday.

 After last week’s damaging cyclone, New Zealand needs to rebuild with more resilient infrastructure to cope with more frequent and intense weather events, the prime minister said Tuesday.

Those melancholy tunes sung by humpback whales may really be a sign of loneliness

Scientists who tracked humpback whales in Australia noticed that fewer whales wailed to find mates as their population grew.

In a historic victory for Indigenous people and after 15 years of the Australian Parliament extending its apologies to the Indigenous people for past wrongs Behavior committed against them.