Australia intercepts boats carrying more than 300 asylum seekers
May 7th, 2012 - 6:54 pm ICT by BNO News
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (BNO NEWS) -- The Australian Navy on Sunday intercepted three boats carrying more than 300 asylum seekers combined, the government said on Monday. It follows a series of intercepted people ... Read more...
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Strong earthquake strikes central Australia, no damage
March 24th, 2012 - 7:41 pm ICT by BNO News
ERNABELLA, Australia (BNO NEWS) -- The central region of Australia was struck by the country's largest earthquake in nearly 15 years on Friday evening, seismologists said, but there were no reports of ... Read more...
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Global solo sailor Watson banned from Sydney to Hobart race due to age
November 25th, 2010 - 3:29 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Nov 25 (ANI): Jessica Watson, who sailed solo around the world, has been banned from participating in this year's Sydney to Hobart race because of her age.The 17 years old has ... Read more...
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Komodo Dragon most likely evolved in Australia 3-4 mln yrs ago
September 30th, 2009 - 12:57 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, September 30 (ANI): A team of palaeontologists and archaeologists, who studied fossil evidence from Australia, Timor, Flores, Java and India, has shown that Komodo Dragons most likely evolved in Australia around ... Read more...
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Tasmanian Tiger Episode To Screen This Week
May 14th, 2009 - 4:26 pm ICT by GD
The new MonsterQuest episode "Isle of the Lost Tiger" is to screen this week featuring the WLMD Expedition carried out in 2009 to look for the Thylacine or Tasmanian Tiger. Final results ... Read more...
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Kashmiris may soon relish Emu, the Australian bird
October 25th, 2008 - 8:41 pm ICT by ANI
By PummyJammu, Oct.25 (ANI): People in Jammu and Kashmir may soon be able to relish a new variety of bird meat, which is expected to be beneficial for the poultry farmers ... Read more...
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Our ancestors sounded death knell of prehistoric animals
August 12th, 2008 - 1:57 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Aug 12 (IANS) Human hunting sounded the death knell of large prehistoric animals like giant kangaroos, marsupial rhinos and leopards, rather than climate change as previously believed. People who arrived in ... Read more...
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New evidence blames humans for mass extinction of Tasmanias prehistoric animals
August 12th, 2008 - 12:54 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, August 12 (ANI): A new research, by UK and Australian scientists, has suggested that the mass extinction of Tasmanias large prehistoric animals was the result of human hunting, and not ... Read more...
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Now ‘clean, green food’ from Australia for the Indian market
July 15th, 2008 - 1:43 pm ICT by IANS
By Neena Bhandari
Sydney, July 15 (IANS) Produce of Heaven, a consortium of premium food and wine producers and farmers from Australia's only island state of Tasmania, will soon be launching its pure, ... Read more...
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