East Timor deputy PM quits, coalition seen at risk (Reuters)
Reuters - One of East Timor's two deputy prime ministers resigned on Wednesday after he said Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao called him a liar, posing a risk to stability of the ruling coalition of the world's youngest countries.
Tensions emerge in new Australian minority govt (AP)

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard speaks during a press conference in Canberra, Australia, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Gillard will lead Australia's first minority government in 67 years after two independent lawmakers threw their support behind her center-left Labor Party, ending two weeks of uncertainty left by national elections that ended on a knife-edge. (AP Photo/Mark Graham)AP - Tensions emerged Wednesday between Australia's deputy prime minister and a kingmaker independent lawmaker over plans to make mining companies pay more taxes, underscoring the fragility of the country's new minority government.
Australian government prepared to adjust mining tax (Reuters)

Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard speaks during a news conference with Treasurer Wayne Swan in Parliament House, Canberra, September 7, 2010. REUTERS/Andrew TaylorReuters - Australia's fragile Labor government suggested on Wednesday it could adjust a planned profits-based tax on mining companies to bend to demands of the independent MPs giving it a slender grip on power.
Fragile Australian government hit by wrangling (AFP)

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard finally secured enough independents to form the new government at Parliament House in Canberra. Gillard pledged to serve a full term after scraping back into power but her fragile coalition was immediately at odds over a major new tax Wednesday.(AFP/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - Australia's newly elected Prime Minister Julia Gillard pledged to serve a full term after scraping back into power but her fragile coalition was immediately at odds over a major new tax Wednesday.
Australia's Foster's rejects 2.5 bln dlr wine bid (AFP)

Australian drinks giant Foster's Wednesday knocked back an offer worth up to 2.7 billion dollars (2.46 billion US) from a private equity firm for its wine assets but said it would consider other bids.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)AFP - Australian drinks giant Foster's Wednesday knocked back an offer worth up to 2.7 billion dollars (2.46 billion US) from a private equity firm for its wine assets but said it would consider other bids.
Big aftershock again rocks New Zealand city (AP)

Pedestrians watch as a house damaged from Saturday's earthquake is demolished in Christchurch September 6, 2010. Aftershocks rocked New Zealand's second-biggest city on Monday causing further damage and forcing authorities to extend a state of emergency after the country's most damaging earthquake in 80 years. REUTERS/Carys Monteath/The PressAP - A magnitude-5.1 aftershock that hammered New Zealand's earthquake-hit city of Christchurch on Wednesday morning sparked evacuations and fresh damage to buildings, causing authorities to extend a state of emergency for another week.
Instant View: Australian PM Gillard retains power (Reuters)
Reuters - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard clung onto power on Tuesday, securing support from independent lawmakers to form a minority government after her Labor Party lost its majority at elections last month.
Australian independents hand power to PM Gillard (AFP)

<p/>(AFP)AFP - Australia's "kingmaker" independent MPs Tuesday handed power to Prime Minister Julia Gillard with a one-seat majority, two weeks after elections produced the first hung parliament in 70 years.
Floods threaten hundreds more Australian homes (AFP)

Cattle are stranded by flood waters on the outskirts of Wangaratta after floods hit the northern Victoria, some 250 kms northeast of Melbourne, on September 6. Wild storms lashed Victoria state over the weekend, triggering landslides, knocking out power supplies and forcing hundreds of people out of their homes, with many rivers yet to reach their peak.(AFP/William West)AFP - Rising flood waters threatened hundreds of Australian homes Tuesday, after scores were inundated by weekend storms which caused millions of dollars of damage, officials said.
Australia to give US evidence in diving death case (AP)
AP - A state government in Australia has agreed to turn over case documents to prosecutors in the U.S. hoping to charge an Alabama man with the drowning death of his wife during a honeymoon scuba dive on the Great Barrier Reef.
Guilty plea could buy less jail time in Australia (AP)
AP - Criminals who plead guilty within six weeks of their arrest could get a 40 percent reduction in their prison sentence under a proposal aimed at reducing the backlog at courts in one Australian state.
NZ probes skydiving plane crash that killed 9 (AP)

The scene of the crash where nine people died including an Australian, a German, an Englishman and an Irishman when their aircraft believed to be carrying a group of skydivers crashed shortly after taking off from the air strip at Fox Glacier, New Zealand, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/NZPA, Hokitika Guardian) ** NEW ZEALAND OUT **AP - Investigators expressed confidence Sunday that they will learn why an airplane carrying skydivers crashed in flames near a popular tourist spot in New Zealand's Southern Alps, killing four Europeans and five New Zealanders.
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