Australia/New Zealand News

By Katherine Gustafson | Thu Nov 19, 2009 12:46 PM ET

Some 2.5 billion people live without toilets, and more children die of sanitation-related diseases than any others. Today we recognize how important toilets are. Read More

More like this in: Health, Children, Water

By Kathy Ehrich Dowd | Mon Nov 16, 2009 1:04 PM ET

New Zealand explorers set out to unearth bottles of Scotch frozen in Antarctic ice for a century. Read More

More like this in: New Zealand, Scotland, Antarctica

By Katherine Gustafson | Mon Nov 16, 2009 9:27 AM ET

The religious scholar and author’s inspired Charter for Compassion breathes new life into the Golden Rule. Read More

More like this in: Love, Kindness, Compassion, Spirituality, Religion, The Internet, Call to Action, Karen Armstrong

By Kathy Ehrich Dowd | Fri Nov 13, 2009 11:45 AM ET

A US soldier finds an Australian bomb-sniffing dog who had been missing in Afghanistan for more than a year. Read More

More like this in: Hope, Australia, Afghanistan, The Associated Press, Kevin Rudd

By Kathy Ehrich Dowd | Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:35 PM ET

Weird and wacky world records are broken on this fifth annual "holiday." Read More

More like this in: Europe, London, England, Reuters, Australia, Hair, Italy, Norway, Guinness World Records, Finland, Commuters

By Courtney Rubin | Thu Oct 29, 2009 6:08 PM ET

Researchers in New Zealand develop an ice cream they hope can help combat the side effects of chemotherapy. Read More

More like this in: New Zealand, Ice Cream, Chemotherapy, Weight Loss, Dairy Products

By Katherine Gustafson | Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:00 AM ET

On International Day of Climate Action, creativity was unleashed to galvanize the world behind the global warming cause. Read More

More like this in: California, Climate change, India, Australia, Afghanistan, Mexico, Santa Cruz, Croatia, GOOD Magazine, Bill McKibben

By Courtney Rubin | Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:08 PM ET

A team from Japan wins one of the world's greenest car races. Read More

More like this in: Technology, The New York Times, Travel, NASA, Australia, Emissions, Planet, Japan, Solar Energy, Solar Power, Michigan, University of Michigan

By Darragh Worland | Sat Oct 24, 2009 7:09 PM ET

A rash of progressively younger teens are looking to circumnavigate the globe. What gives? Read More

More like this in: New York, Family, Australia, Netherlands, Sailing

By Courtney Rubin | Sat Oct 24, 2009 4:04 PM ET

Why cheese is the new diet food. Read More

More like this in: Australia, Diet, The Telegraph, Weight Loss, Dairy Products, Yogurt