Australia
Sperm whale feasting on a giant squid (rare images)
October 28, 2009They are creatures of the deep immortalised in fictional bestsellers like Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick and Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. But these ultra-rare images of a colossal sperm whale feeding on a giant squid are the real thing...
Australian Frogs Change Their Tune to Find Love
October 08, 2009By Stuart Cohen Australia's frogs are having trouble finding love. Traffic noise and other sounds of city life, such as air conditioners and construction noise, are drowning out the mating calls of male frogs in urban areas, leading to a sharp drop...
Australia Foils Al-Qaeda-Linked Terror Plot
August 04, 2009Australian federal police have taken into custody four men they accuse of planning a commando-style suicide raid on a Australian Army base. The men, Australian citizens of Lebanese and Somali descent, are alleged to have been in contact with the Somali...
BBC: WHO declares swine flu pandemic
June 11, 2009The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global flu pandemic after holding an emergency meeting. It means the swine flu virus is spreading in at least two regions of the world with rising cases being seen in the UK, Australia, Japan and Chile...
Wildfires Rage in Australia, Killing 130
February 09, 2009Australia is devastated by bushfires. The death toll associated with more than 400 fires in Australia now stands at 130 and it could rise to some 230. 31 fires are still raging throughout the state of Victoria after record heat of 117 degrees F (47 degrees...
Australian team succeeds in Antarctic climb
January 02, 2007Sydney (dpa) - From sea to sky, a four-man Australian team has reached the summit of Antarctica's highest peak, Mount Vinson, becoming the first climbers ever to conquer the 4,900-metre-high summit after trekking from sea level, Australian news reports...
Snow in Australia whites-out forest fires
December 25, 2006Sydney (dpa) - Thousands of volunteers battling forest blazes in Australia's south-east corner received a timely Christmas present Monday when snow fell on fires that over the last three weeks have burned 870,000 hectares. "I didn't actually...
Australian police search for stolen rocket launchers
December 15, 2006Sydney (dpa) - Australian police believe rogue elements in the Army may be behind the black market sale of rocket launchers after only one of nine anti-tank weapons suspected to have been stolen was recovered, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Friday...
- December 15, 2006
Sydney (dpa) - A baby strapped in a pram drowned in an Adelaide river Friday while his mother talked on a mobile phone, news reports in Australia said. The woman told police that when she finished her phone call the pram and her 5-month-old son were...
Australian townfolk accused of racism
December 15, 2006Sydney (dpa) - An Australian town council was accused of pandering to racist sentiment Friday after it turned away a group of Sudanese refugees who had hoped to settle there. Tamworth, in the south-east corner of Australia, voted against accepting...
