March 11, 2016 Video captures one-wheeled plane's crash landing at airport A video has captured a plane flipping around at a New Zealand airport as it tried to land with one of its wheels missing.
March 11, 2016 Philippines hostages claim captors will kill them in one month if demands aren't met A recent video released by Islamist militants that depicted three foreign hostages and a Filipino woman pleading for their lives is nothing more than a ploy to relieve the military pressure that is “getting closer” to them, a Philippines army spokesman said Friday.
March 11, 2016 Sichuan Hanlong Group insider trader jailed in Australia An Australian court has sentenced a Chinese former executive to more than eight years in prison for insider trading in 2011 when his privately-owned energy conglomerate Sichuan Hanlong Group subsidiary was preparing takeover bids for two Australian mining companies.
March 10, 2016 Pakistan asks international court to drop disarmament case Pakistan has urged the International Court of Justice to dismiss a case filed by the Marshall Islands, a tiny South Pacific state, to force India, Britain and Pakistan to pursue nuclear disarmament.
March 9, 2016 New Zealand cuts interest rates to record low 2.25 percent New Zealand's central bank has cut its benchmark interest rate to a record low 2.25 percent and said it could go lower yet as the country grapples with weak international growth and lower prices for its crucial dairy exports.
March 9, 2016 New Zealand gunman shoots and injures 4 police officers A gunman suspected of shooting and wounding four police officers was holed up at a rural New Zealand house on Wednesday evening, police said.
March 9, 2016 US reportedly considering stationing B-1 bombers in Australia, conducting more B-52 missions The U.S. is reportedly in talks with Australia about housing long-range bombers that would be within striking distance of the South China Sea, a move that would increase the tensions between Washington and Beijing.
March 9, 2016 Australia hopes to return Iranian asylum seekers under deal An Australian official says Australia hopes to send thousands of Iranian asylum seekers back to their homeland under a new deal with Tehran.
March 9, 2016 Australian leader dismisses concerns about Chinese company Australia's prime minister has dismissed public concerns revealed by a U.S. poll about a Chinese company leasing a strategically important Australian port.
March 8, 2016 2 years later, MH370 families' face painful choice: Demand answers or move on? Nearly every day, the retired factory worker goes to the airline office, riding a series of buses across Beijing to hand-deliver a letter. And nearly every day, the letter says the same thing. "Tell us the truth, and get our loved ones back to us."