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Australia allows legally binding ceremonies for gay couples
Sydney - The Australian federal government will not move to strike out a local law that allowed the first legally binding civil partnership ceremony to take place in Canberra earlier this week. This locks in the role of ceremonies for same-sex coupl...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-26 ] Category : [ Australasia (World) ]

Australian firefighters have a pig of a day
Sydney - Firefighters called out to a reported gas leak on a farm in southern Australia traced the source to a 120-kilogram pig with an irritable bowel. When we got to the property where [the alert] was, these people had a pig, a big sow, which was ...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-26 ] Category : [ Australasia (World) ]

Australia's Rudd to talk climate with President Obama
Sydney - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is due to meet US President Barack Obama in Washington next week to discuss prospects for next month's climate change conference in Copenhagen. I have been invited by the President of the United States to ...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-26 ] Category : [ Australasia (World) ]

New Zealand river defies 'pure' tourism puff
Wellington - New Zealand, which promotes itself as 100 per cent pure in its publicity aimed at foreign tourists, has one of the most polluted rivers in the Western world, according to research published on Thursday. The North Island's 182-kilometre...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-26 ] Category : [ Australasia (World) ]

Large doping trade network busted in Austria
Vienna - Austrian police have uncovered what was likely one of the biggest international networks peddling illegal growth hormones for athletes, the police authority of Lower Austria province said Wednesday. Investigators found some 2 tons of illicit...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-25 ] Category : [ Australasia (World) ]

Indonesian vice-president: Government will weather political storm
Jakarta - Indonesian Vice President Boediono said Wednesday he was confident that the government would be able to weather a political storm over a graft scandal and a controversial bank bailout. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been under press...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-25 ] Category : [ Australasia (World) ]

Two teenage girls guilty of murdering pensioner with walking stick
Wellington - Two teenage girls were found guilty Wednesday of murdering a 78-year-old retired teacher by beating him to death with his walking stick after they broke into his home to rob him. John Rowe, who was in bed recovering from a leg injury at ...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-25 ] Category : [ Australasia (World) ]

Feral camels take over remote Australian township
Sydney - A herd of 6,000 camels is terrorizing the remote far-north Australian township of Docker River, Northern Territory Local Government Minister Rob Knight told the Darwin Parliament on Wednesday. He said the locals, mostly Aborigines, were afra...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-25 ] Category : [ Australasia (World) ]

Australians excited by outdoor sex
Sydney - Photographs published Wednesday in Australia of an anonymous couple having sex in a Sydney clock tower in full view of midday shoppers sparked a flurry of confessions on talkback radio. Listeners rang in claiming to have copulated on the Har...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-25 ] Category : [ Australasia (World) ]

Australia edges closer to carbon-trading scheme - Summary
Sydney - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd could get his wish and have legislation for a national carbon-trading scheme through Parliament before he attends next month's climate conference in Copenhagen. Rudd's Labor government on Tuesday sealed a...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-24 ] Category : [ Australasia (World) ]

EXTRA: NATO must worker harder in Afghanistan, Rasmussen says

Released Canadian, Australian journalists arrive in Kenya - Summary

BACKGROUND: German airstrike throws up legal and political issues

Pressure mounts on Iran at ElBaradei's final IAEA board - Update

One dead in shooting at Hungarian university campus

Turkish president to visit Jordan on Tuesday

Brazilian Ze Roberto out for rest of year

Former Chelsea boss Grant named as Portsmouth manager

Anti-Islamic Dutch politician forced to cancel Prague visit

Floods kill 48 as hajj pilgrimage begins in Saudi Arabia - Summary

Lindsay Lohan has posed topless for French magazine Purple.

Seal to adopt

Man basher Ashley Greene

Taylor Lautner's school torment

Usher in record row

PREVIEW: Commonwealth summit to grapple with climate change, rights

Floods kill 48 as hajj pilgrimage begins in Saudi Arabia

Malta's ex chief justice jailed for two years and nine months

Astana granted 2010 Pro Tour licence but with conditions

German army top brass lose jobs over Afghan cover-up - Update