Oceania
Sports
World Cup roundup: Defending champion France advances
Messi keeps title hopes alive helping Argentina past Mexico
Sports
Australia edge Tunisia for first World Cup win since 2010
Victory snaps Socceroos' seven-match winless streak at tournament
Politics
What can Asia learn on gender from New Zealand? Ardern has ideas
Look beyond aggressive, 'knives-out' politics, PM says on Vietnam trip
Inflation
New Zealand delivers record rate increase, flags more to come
Official cash rate goes up to 4.25%, its highest point since January 2009
Life
Australia grapples with explosive history of frontier wars
Commemoration of long-dead warrior highlights resistance to colonists
DealStreetAsia
IFC looks to invest $320m in three Vietnamese banks
International lender has been operating in country since 1997
Politics
New Zealand's top court rules voting age of 18 is discriminatory
Advocacy group says 16-year-olds should be able to vote
Opinion
China and Australia are going back to business, without illusions
Mutual suspicions too great now for relationship to return to previous warmth
Business deals
Australia's OZ Minerals backs BHP's improved $6.5bn offer
Deal would be country's largest mining buyout since 2011
Indo-Pacific
Xi sheds 'wolf-warrior' coat on return to world stage
Third term gives China's leader freer hand to chart new courses
Economy
Australia 'economically vulnerable' to money laundering: expert
Author says dependence on foreign funding makes it 'international hub'
COP27
'Why I'm at COP': Climate summit attendees tell their stories
Huge conference in Egypt drawing thousands of people from around the world
Indo-Pacific
U.S. nuclear bombers find home in Australia as China tensions rise
War threat leads to upgrade of military ties between Canberra, Washington
Natural disasters
Tsunami warnings issued after 7.3 quake strikes Tonga region
American Samoa tells residents to move inland, to higher ground
Business deals
Origin Energy backs $11.8bn buyout led by Brookfield
Deal would be largest deal in Australia so far this year
COP27
Pay for climate change, Pakistan and others tell rich nations
Prime Minister Sharif calls his country's floods a 'man-made disaster' at COP27
Climate Change
Australia hastens coal plant closures to catch up on climate
Shift from coal could trigger tighter energy supplies, impacting Asia
Market Spotlight
Australia's resource-led economy digs stock markets out of hole
Share prospects brighten as central bank nears end of rate-tightening cycle
COP27
Vanuatu says cyclones, rising seas are 'human rights issues'
Climate envoy from small Pacific nation makes remark ahead of COP27
