Floods, transport chaos hits Sydney
March 8th, 2012 - 3:53 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, March 8 (IANS) Torrential rains hit Sydney Thursday, causing flash floods and transport chaos in the city.The Bureau of Meteorology said about 119 mm of rain fell on parts ... Read more...
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Australia suffering from women brain drain
April 11th, 2011 - 12:04 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, April 11 (IANS) The Australian economy was suffering because women scientists do not receive the same opportunity as their male peers resulting in brain drain, a top scientist has ... Read more...
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Australians strip for charity
December 5th, 2010 - 3:02 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Dec 5 (IANS) Nearly 300 Australians Sunday stripped down to their underwear and paraded through Sydney in an attempt to break a world record and raise money for a charity.The group ... Read more...
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School mistress says she gave sex education to abused boys
December 2nd, 2010 - 11:53 am ICT by IANS
Sydney, Dec 2 (IANS) A house mistress in an Australian school sexually abused boys aged 11 and 12 and rationalised her behaviour as providing sex education, a court has been told.The unnamed ... Read more...
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100 drunk drivers nabbed in Melbourne
November 27th, 2010 - 3:44 pm ICT by IANS
Melbourne, Nov 27 (IANS) A total of 100 drivers were nabbed because of drunk driving during a police operation in Melbourne Saturday, a media report said.A 24-year-old woman had a blood alcohol ... Read more...
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Drunk Australians abused a million in 2009 holiday season
November 26th, 2010 - 2:15 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Nov 26 (IANS) Over one million Australians suffered abuse or violence caused by another person's excessive drinking during the Christmas and New Year holiday season last year, according to a new ... Read more...
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Teenaged boy raped at knife-point by 10 women
November 22nd, 2010 - 8:25 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Nov 22 (IANS) A 17-year-old boy was gang raped by 10 knife-wielding women in Papua New Guinea, a media report said Monday.The gang of women attacked the schoolboy near Mendi town ... Read more...
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Australia’s thirst for alcohol ‘underestimated’
November 1st, 2010 - 2:13 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Nov 1 (IANS) Australia's "thirst for alcohol" has been "underestimated" in official consumption records for more than a decade, and people worldwide have mistaken the country's drinking behaviour as stable.There was ... Read more...
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Rajni Narayan confesses in court that she poured petrol over her husband
September 27th, 2010 - 9:17 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Sydney, Sep 27 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Rajini Narayan, who is a 46-year-old Indian origin women told the South Australian Supreme Court, on Monday, that she poured petrol over her husband.According to Australia's AAP ... Read more...
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Woman tells court she set fire to his genitals
September 27th, 2010 - 7:03 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Sep 27 (IANS) An Indian-origin woman told a court in Australia Monday that she set fire to her husband's genitals because she believed he was having an affair. The man later ... Read more...
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Crooks cheating holiday planners on Facebook
September 21st, 2010 - 1:45 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Sep 21 (IANS) Online cheats are hacking into accounts of people who post their holiday plans on Facebook and are posing as their friends to cheat them of their money, ... Read more...
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‘Exposure to unnecessary risks killing Afghan troops’
September 21st, 2010 - 1:22 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Sep 21 (IANS) An email by an unnamed soldier posted in Afghanistan, leaked to the press Tuesday, said troops in Afghanistan were exposed to unnecessary risks and were dying because of ... Read more...
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Not only goalies bamboozled by the World Cup ball
June 4th, 2010 - 4:44 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, June 4 (DPA) Australian goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer is not alone in spending an inordinate amount of time with the controversial Jabulani World Cup football.
Australian coach Pim Verbeek said Friday that the ... Read more...
Posted in Sports |
Cigarette filters have pig’s blood?
March 30th, 2010 - 3:21 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, March 30 (IANS) Cigarette filters may have traces of pig's blood, an Australian professor has said, adding the devout may find this "very offensive".
Simon Chapman, a professor at the University of ... Read more...
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Two more Indians assaulted in Australia
January 22nd, 2010 - 11:48 am ICT by IANS
Brisbane, Jan 22 (IANS) Two Indians, including a taxi driver, have been assaulted in two separate incidents in this Australian city.
Following the attacks late Thursday and early Friday, Queensland's Acting Premier Andrew ... Read more...
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Australian cannibal film making people sick
September 16th, 2009 - 11:35 am ICT by IANS
Sydney, Sep 16 (DPA) Cinemagoers are literally being made sick by an Australian feature film that documents the descent into cannibalism of 1822 Tasmanian penal colony escapee Alexander Pearce, news reports said ... Read more...
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Australian swimwear designer defends her `burqini’
August 13th, 2009 - 5:36 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Aug 13 (DPA) Australian swimwear designer Aheda Zanetti Thursday defended the full-length swimming costume she launched as the "burqini" five years ago.
Her comments came after a French woman was denied entry ... Read more...
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Eleven beached whales refloated in Australia (Lead)
March 24th, 2009 - 5:37 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, March 24 (DPA) The 11 survivors from a pod of 80 whales that beached themselves near Margaret River on Australia's west coast were pushed back out to sea Tuesday.
The long-finned pilot ... Read more...
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Sheepdogs shepherd endangered penguins in Australia
January 5th, 2009 - 5:21 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Jan 5 (DPA) Sheepdogs have proved such perfect guardians for a colony of fairy penguins on a small south-coast Australian island that conservationists are confident the caring canines can be recruited ... Read more...
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New Year’s resolution to quit alcohol bad for health
December 31st, 2008 - 9:11 am ICT by IANS
Sydney, Dec 31 (DPA) Making a New Year's resolution to give up alcohol can be bad for your health, according to an Australian rehabilitation expert quoted in a news report Wednesday.It could ... Read more...
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Bush snubs Rudd over G20 slur
November 15th, 2008 - 3:21 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Nov 15 (DPA) Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd received a frosty welcome from US President George W. Bush when he arrived for the White House dinner that opened the Group of ... Read more...
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Michael Jackson to tour with siblings
October 29th, 2008 - 9:02 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Oct 29 (DPA) Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, will tour the world with a reconstituted Jackson 5, his older brother Jermaine Jackson said in Sydney Wednesday."This has been a long ... Read more...
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Emirates jet makes emergency landing in Perth
October 16th, 2008 - 2:14 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Oct 16 (DPA) An Air Emirates flight to Dubai returned to Perth Thursday and made an emergency landing in the Australian city after experiencing a "technical issue".The Airbus 340-500 carrying 122 ... Read more...
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40 passengers injured in Qantas jet turbulence
October 7th, 2008 - 3:21 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Oct 7 (DPA) Up to 40 people were injured when a Qantas jet flying from Singapore to Perth experienced mid-air turbulence, West Australian police said Tuesday.The Airbus A320 carrying more than ... Read more...
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Former Oz Olympic champion Fraser to boycott Beijing Olympics
April 9th, 2008 - 2:28 pm ICT by admin
Sydney, Apr.9 (ANI): Australian Olympic legend Dawn Fraser has said that she will not attend the Beijing Games in August.
It will be only the second Olympic Games the four-times gold medallist ... Read more...
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Gillani to visit Australia
April 8th, 2008 - 10:45 pm ICT by admin
Islamabad, Apr.8 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Makhdoom Yousuf Raza Gillani has tentatively agreed to visit Australia.
According to Pakistan and Australian papers, Gillani is said to have conveyed this to Australia's High ... Read more...
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Wounded East Timor president out of coma
February 21st, 2008 - 11:50 am ICT by admin
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Sydney, Feb 21 (DPA) East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta is out of an induced coma and is talking to family members at his bedside, a spokesman said Thursday. The Nobel peace laureate ... Read more...
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