AFP - Prince William will meet Prime Minister Kevin Rudd when Queen Elizabeth II's grandson visits Sydney this week, the Australian leader and avowed republican said Monday.
AP - Prince William showed that Britain's monarchy still has pulling power in New Zealand when he was greeted by crowds eight-deep Monday as he arrived to open the country's new Supreme Court building in the capital, Wellington.
AP - An Australian lawyer whose son was killed in the 2002 Bali bombing said on Saturday that a trial in Washington of alleged terrorist Riduan Isamuddin could jeopardize chances of convicting him over the nightclub attacks that killed 202.
AFP - Australian police on Saturday dismissed as "opportunistic" the gang beating of an Indian taxi driver, the second attack targeting an Indian driver in as many days.