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Astronomers have discovered a fast-spinning, super-sized pulsar in a stretched-out orbit around an apparent Sun-like star. This combination (as well as that many hyphenated words in one sentence) has never seen before, and astronomers are puzzled about...
Australia’s new government won praise from the United Nations and human rights groups Wednesday for offering refugees permanent sanctuary rather than temporary visas.
Westpac Banking Corp. and smaller rival St. George agreed to a takeover deal Tuesday worth 18.6 billion Australian dollars ($17.5 billion) that would create Australia’s biggest bank by market capitalization.
An Australian man has been fined after buckling in a case of beer with a seat belt but leaving a 5-year-old child to sit on the car’s floor, police said Tuesday.
St. George Bank on Tuesday agreed to an 18.6 billion Australian dollar ($17.5 billion) takeover offer from Westpac Banking Corp. that would create Australia’s biggest bank and be one of the country’s largest corporate deals.
Westpac Banking Corp. said Monday it has approached rival St. George Bank Ltd. with a $14 billion takeover offer that could lead to the biggest shakeup of Australia’s banking sector in years.
An Australian swimmer says he survived a mauling by a 16-foot shark by wrestling with the beast, finally getting free by poking it in the eye.
Brush fires forced residents to flee more than 100 homes in central Florida on Saturday and closed a major interstate, authorities said.
Australian Olympic chief John Coates says there’s a good chance some athletes will protest on the medal podium at the Beijing Olympics.
Sir Richard Branson is one big billionaire who really knows how to live life full throttle. To let his staff at Virgin Airlines also be a part of the good life, Sir Richard bought the Makepeace Island situated in the middle of Queensland’s Noosa river...
It was a great moment for the English fans as their team cruised to a pleasing victory on the fifth and final day of the Napier test, the win also sealing the series 2-1 in England’s favour. It wasn’t the regular havocker Sidebottom but a more...
Health and fitness are watchwords of the current generation. The market for fitness related products is booming, and it is no surprise that the Australian International Design Award has recognized a product that would revolutionize the way cyclists...
Recently Reuben Png of Sydney smacked the headlines with his outstanding conceptual pen D:Scribe. A digital fountain pen that’ll send SMS and Email messages in real time, can you beat that? Now the designer is looking forward to the second stage of...
Digital pictures and images have just brought about a revolution not only in the in the entertainment industry, but all the forms of video visualization. Moving the digital world into new horizons, iCinema - an interactive cinema research group - and...
It’s the innovators who turn to be the leaders. It’s yet another occasion when a young student designer rather innovator from The University of Western Sydney, Mr. Felix Li has invented something extraordinary that the world had never known....
Microsoft has slashed prices of Xbox 360 HD DVD add-on (yet again). In July last year they dropped the price from $199 to $179 and also announced 5 free HD DVDs to go with it.
This time drop is of massive $50 and it will be retailing at $129....
If you do belongs to the class of fun loving and adventurous guys who constantly looks for unusual ways of touting their audacious spirit, Zorb is an innovative as well as daring way of having fun. As it takes a lot of courage and a big heart to cage...
If everything goes well, then days are not far away when the tool to fight Bird-flu would be there in experts’ hands. This hope sparked up after researchers at Griffith University Institute for Glycomics, in the leadership of Professor Mark Von...
I just came across an interesting post on the radically designed boats from around the world at Popular Mechanics. The one I picked is the Bladerider X8, which is derived from and is 100% compliant with the distinguished International Moth class....
Fog envelops Sydney’s central business district as commuters make their way to work Thursday, May 15, 2008. International flights were diverted to Brisbane and Melbourne from Sydney Airport and Sydney Ferries services were also suspended for some time...
