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- Amnesty probe finds Australia breaches asylum laws
Rights group Amnesty International has urged Australia to review its asylum seeker policies and end offshore detention after finding "debilitating and humiliating conditions" at processing centers that breach obligations under international law. A steady flow of refugee boats is a hot political issue in Australia, polarizing voters. Prime Minister Tony Abbott's conservative Liberal-led coalition won power in September partly on the back of a tough campaign against asylum seekers. In its report, Amnesty said 1,100 male asylum seekers now detained on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea were living in squalid 'prison-like' conditions, where one compound was reported to violate the U.N. Convention Against Torture.
- Australian PM vows to fix Indonesian relations
 CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has told Parliament he will do everything he "reasonably can" to repair relations with Indonesia damaged by allegations of Australian phone tapping of senior Indonesian figures.
- Indonesian leader slams Aussie PM for no remorse
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia's president criticized Australia's prime minister on Tuesday for not expressing remorse over the alleged wiretapping of his phone, and said cooperation agreements between the near-neighbors would be reviewed.
- Indonesian leader deplores statement by Aussie PM
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia's president has stepped up the pressure on Australia over allegations its neighbor tapped calls from his phone, saying the action was deplorable and will lead to a review of cooperation agreements.
- Music Could Track Human Migrations
Music could be used to track human migration patterns over history, new research suggests. That conclusion, described Tuesday (Nov. 12) in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, came from examining a genetic analysis of indigenous populations in Taiwan along with the people's folk music. Populations with more similar folk music also tended to be more closely related, the researchers found. Scientists propose that the Austronesian-speaking people who populate the Pacific, from Papua New Guinea to the Philippines to Hawaii, originally set sail from Taiwan between 10,000 and 6,000 years ago.
- Sonny Bill back for Kiwis against PNG in Rugby League
 LEEDS (United Kingdom) (AFP) - Code-swapping star Sonny Bill Williams will make his return for defending champions New Zealand in their final Rugby League World Cup Pool B game against Papua New Guinea on Friday. Williams, who as a centre won the Rugby World Cup with the All Blacks on home soil in 2011, was named in his preferred league position of second row alongside Alex Glenn. He missed last weekend's 48-0 demolition of France, which followed the Kiwis' opening 42-24 victory over Samoa. The two wins assured New Zealand of a place in the quarter-finals.
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