Latest and Most Recent News from Oceania

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Floods that ravaged Australia's northeast and swamped a major city could be the country's most expensive natural disaster ever, the government said Monday.

Australia: 'A one-in-a-100-year flood'

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The government has awarded BP four permits to explore for oil and gas in the Ceduna Sub-basin in the Bight Basin off South Australia.

BP given new oil exploration permits

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Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have added a second daughter to their family, born through a surrogate mother.The couple announced Monday the arrival of Faith Margaret Kidman Urban, born on Dec.

Kidman, Urban have 2nd child through surrogate

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French University chancellor accused of copying Umberto Eco
19 January 2011, 1:47 am

The Chancellor of a French university has been accused of lifting vast chunks of her book from a work by the acclaimed Italian author and intellectual, Umberto Eco, in the latest plagiarism row to hit France.

Source: Oceania News

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Fault forces US-bound Qantas flight to divert to Fiji
19 January 2011, 10:01 am

A Qantas jet carrying almost 400 people from Sydney to New York was diverted to Fiji after a fuel valve fault yesterday, just four days after another safety scare on one of its planes.

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First burials as Australian flood crisis deepens
19 January 2011, 2:16 pm

Australia's flood-ravaged Queensland state began the grim task of burying its dead, as people in the sodden south fled a record deluge threatening to engulf homes.

Source: Oceania News

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Australian floods victim Jordan Rice laid to rest
19 January 2011, 4:15 pm

Relatives mourn at the funeral of Jordan Rice and his mother, who died in the Queensland floods.

Source: Oceania News

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FOUR Australian women who have made their mark in advancing gender equality will be immortalised on a stamp.

Source: Germaine, you've got the mail licked

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The Curtin Detention Centre, where asylum seekers are reportedly on a hunger strike.

Source: Hunger striker detainees 'unconscious'

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A line scrawled by a villager in beach sand helped point airborne searchers to a downed helicopter pilot after his aircraft crashed Thursday into a bay on the coast of northern New Zealand, rescue officials said.

Source: Line in NZ sand helps pilot's rescue from sea - AP