Heather Jarvis

May is motorcycle safety awareness month in Guam, where motorcyles and scooters have become a popular form of affordable transport.

People in parts of Australia and the Pacific will be treated to a special sight in tomorrow's morning sky - an annular solar eclipse

Children from schools across the Marshall Islands have produced a set of twelve picture books in both the Marshallese and English language.

A Welsh man ran the 2013 London Marathon wearing a traditional Papua New Guinean grass skirt to raise money for charity. 

The new H7N9 strain of avian influenza has so far affected over 120 people in China, with twenty four people confirmed dead. 

Twenty years ago this week, Indigenous Australian footballer Nicky Winmar made a very public, yet personal stand that challenged Australia’s attitude towards racism.

He may be only twenty five years old, and didn't even pick up a guitar until the age of sixteen, but Melbourne blues artist Shaun Kirk has a voice and talent that's got blues afficionados talking.

Australian rugby league legend Mal Meninga recently took on the job as High Performance Director for the PNG Kumuls - the country's national rugby league squad.

The Wolfe Brothers are a Tasmanian country music band that is gaining accolades around the world. They bring their music and energy to our studios at Radio Australia.

Students at Southern High School celebrated the culmination of their Chamorro Month activities today, with dancing, singing, sports and a traditional Chamorro feast. 

Each year between three and five thousand children worldwide are born with Down Syndrome, a disorder caused by extra genetic material in chromosome 21. 

When you think of graffiti, do you think of something ugly or something beautiful?

Australian peacekeeping troops have served in many locations around the world. Now for the first time, the names of those who die in "non-warlike operations" - including peacekeepers -  will be included on the Roll of Honour at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.

Just like with spoken languages, there are different variations of sign language.  In Australia, its Auslan, and in America, it's American Sign Language, or ASL.

Thousands of books have been delivered to Northwest High School on the remote island of Onoun, in the Federated States of Micronesia to create a major new library.