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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...

[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...

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

Australian doctors marvel as separated twins eat, sleep, play
Sydney - The Bangladeshi conjoined twins separated in a marathon operation in Australia last week are eating, watching videos and playing like other infants their age, doctors at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital said Tuesday. They are both still...

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

Wheelchair banned - Paralympian crawls through Australian airport
Sydney - Paralympic champion Kurt Fearnley said Tuesday he was so angry at having to leave his wheelchair at the check-in counter he crawled through Brisbane airport to reach the departure gate for his flight. Fearnley, who earlier this month won his...

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

Australian drug runners using dead kangaroos
Sydney - Drugs are being smuggled into Aboriginal communities in Australia's far north inside dead kangaroos, the Northern Territory parliament was told Tuesday. Former indigenous affairs minister Alison Anderson said cannabis was being sewn inside k...

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

Lucky, the world's oldest sheep, dead at 23
Sydney - Lucky, a ewe who got into the Guinness Book of World Records two years ago for being the world's oldest sheep, has died at the Australian farm where she was born 23 years ago, news reports said Tuesday. Delrae Westgarth, who adopted Lucky af...

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

Hive heist stings New Zealand beekeeper
Wellington - A New Zealand beekeeper has been stung by rustlers who stole more than a million of his honey producers in 28 hives from a farm paddock, a newspaper reported on Tuesday. John Tyler, of Matamata, 55 kilometres from Rotorua in the central ...

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

Australia edges closer to carbon-trading scheme
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...

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

Indonesia leader steps in as graft scandal sparks public outcry
Jakarta - Indonesia's president on Monday called for corruption charges against two deputy chairmen of the country's anti-graft commission to be dropped, citing a public outcry over what many see as a conspiracy to weaken the body. Susilo Bambang Yud...

[Posted on : 2009-11-23 ] Category : [ Australasia (World) ]

Bad weather hampers search in Indonesian ferry accident - Summary
Jakarta - Bad weather hampered the search for dozens of people missing Monday after an overloaded ferry sank in rough seas off the Indonesian island of Sumatra the day before, officials said. High waves and strong winds hampered rescue teams to cond...

[Posted on : 2009-11-23 ] Category : [ Australasia (World) ]

 

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