http://www.earthtimes.org The Earth Times online newspaper, serving the planet with news that matters. Covering current affairs, world news, environmental affairs and sport en-us PHP/4.4.4 http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/296377,doctor-hunters-seek-bounty-in-australia.html Sydney - Advertisements ran in local newspapers Thursday offering a finder's fee of 3,000 Australian dollars (2,750 US dollars) for anyone who can persuade an overseas doctor to work in Australia. The advertisements were placed by the Australian Medi... Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:34:15 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/296377,doctor-hunters-seek-bounty-in-australia.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/296208,australians-excited-by-outdoor-sex.html 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... Australasia,World Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:22:12 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/296208,australians-excited-by-outdoor-sex.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/290114,east-timor-begins-first-joint-military-manoeuvres-with-us.html Dili - East Timor's first joint military exercise with the United States began Wednesday with the arrival of the USS Bonhomme Richard assault ship. The manoeuvres with 2,500 US troops and Australia forces are to last through October 24, aimed at bols... Australasia,World Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:34:46 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/290114,east-timor-begins-first-joint-military-manoeuvres-with-us.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/294232,singapores-singtel-posts-10-per-cent-rise-in-quarterly-net-profit.html Singapore - Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (SingTel) on Wednesday said net profit for the second quarter of its fiscal year rose 10.1 per cent from a year ago, led by robust performance in its markets in Singapore and Australia. Net profit for the ... Business Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:28:28 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/294232,singapores-singtel-posts-10-per-cent-rise-in-quarterly-net-profit.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/293710,australia-urged-to-repatriate-sri-lankan-asylum-seekers.html Sydney - Australia should repatriate the 78 Sri Lankans who for more than two weeks have been refusing to disembark from an Australian Customs vessel moored off Indonesia's Bintan Island, an influential parliamentarian said Sunday. The asylum seekers... Australasia,World Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:40:18 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/293710,australia-urged-to-repatriate-sri-lankan-asylum-seekers.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/293036,firefighters-succeed-in-using-mud-to-stop-oil-rig-fire.html Sydney - Firefighters put out a fire Tuesday on an oil and gas rig in the Timor Sea north of Australia after four attempts and pumping thousands of barrels of heavy mud into the well. The fire on the remote ocean rig raged for three days, sending fla... Australasia,World Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:46:27 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/293036,firefighters-succeed-in-using-mud-to-stop-oil-rig-fire.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/295636,australians-warned-of-catastrophic-fire-danger.html Sydney - More than 1,000 of Australia's volunteer firefighters were in action Saturday as crews battled 60 of forest blazes in the sweltering south-east where a decade of drought has left tinderbox conditions. A total ban on open fires was declared i... Environment Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:22:12 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/295636,australians-warned-of-catastrophic-fire-danger.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/295807,new-moon-eclipses-harry-potters-half-blood-prince-in-australia.html Sydney - New Moon, the second film in the Twilight vampire series, has eclipsed Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by taking a record 16 million Australian dollars (14.7 million US dollars) on its opening weekend in Australia. This is way beyond... Entertainment Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:58:15 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/295807,new-moon-eclipses-harry-potters-half-blood-prince-in-australia.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/296086,sri-lankan-authorities-arrest-refugees-fleeing-to-australia.html Colombo – Sri Lankan officials captured at least 142 people at sea who trying illegally reach Australia in four fishing trawlers, a Navy spokesman said. The group included both minority Tamils and majority Sinhalese. The boats, which had taken off fr... Asia,World Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:46:15 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/296086,sri-lankan-authorities-arrest-refugees-fleeing-to-australia.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/296069,australian-doctors-marvel-as-separated-twins-eat-sleep-play.html 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... Australasia,World Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:22:17 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/296069,australian-doctors-marvel-as-separated-twins-eat-sleep-play.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/293115,pacific-tit-for-tat-on-cards-after-fiji-expels-diplomats.html Wellington - Relations between Fiji's military government and its biggest South Pacific neighbours Australia and New Zealand were poised to worsen Wednesday after the island state expelled their senior diplomats. New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray M... Australasia,World Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:22:23 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/293115,pacific-tit-for-tat-on-cards-after-fiji-expels-diplomats.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/292944,central-australia-nothing-to-write-home-about.html Alice Springs, Australia - Fly from Sydney towards Alice Springs and you start with lots and end with almost nothing: the city, its suburbs, then bigger and bigger farms give way to desert so harsh and unyielding it has mostly been left alone. That's... Travel,General Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:10:29 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/292944,central-australia-nothing-to-write-home-about.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/292943,firefighters-use-mud-to-battle-burning-oil-rig.html Sydney - Firefighters battled to put out a fire at an oil-and-gas rig in the Timor Sea north of Australia Tuesday by pumping thick mud into the well to plug the leak. The fire broke out Sunday with flames and smoke rising hundreds of metres into the ... Australasia,World Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:04:35 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/292943,firefighters-use-mud-to-battle-burning-oil-rig.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/292942,political-furore-over-drowned-refugees-in-australia.html Sydney - A heated debate broke out in Australia Tuesday over the government's refugee policy after a boat carrying 39 asylum seekers sank in the Indian Ocean with 12 feared drowned. Australian rescue planes and vessels raced to the remote site in the... Australasia,World Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:58:31 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/292942,political-furore-over-drowned-refugees-in-australia.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/292508,jakarta-rules-out-indonesian-solution-to-australia-refugee-problems.html Jakarta - Indonesia said Friday that it did want to be a processing centre for asylum seekers trying to reach a third country and that its willingness to take 78 Australia-bound Sri Lankan boat people was a one-off humanitarian move. The Indonesian g... Australasia,World Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:22:43 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/292508,jakarta-rules-out-indonesian-solution-to-australia-refugee-problems.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/292773,twenty-feared-dead-as-boat-sinks-in-indian-ocean.html Sydney - About 23 people were feared drowned Monday after a boat thought to be carrying 40 asylum seekers sank in remote waters of the Indian Ocean. A search plane was launched from western Australia to join the search for survivors after a liquid na... Australasia,World Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:28:35 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/292773,twenty-feared-dead-as-boat-sinks-in-indian-ocean.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/293320,australia-says-no-more-troops-for-afghanistan.html Sydney - Australia told its ally the United States Thursday that it would not increase the size of it military deployment to Afghanistan. Defence Minister John Faulkner told senior US officials in Washington that Australia would not be adding to the ... Australasia,World Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:40:22 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/293320,australia-says-no-more-troops-for-afghanistan.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/293511,foreign-students-shocked-at-college-closures-in-australia.html Sydney - Thousands of foreign students studying in Australia were left shocked and angry on Friday after the collapse of four private colleges in Melbourne and Sydney. Students, many of them just weeks from graduating, turned up for class, only to fi... Education,General Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:46:21 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/293511,foreign-students-shocked-at-college-closures-in-australia.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/295522,truck-crash-kills-500-sheep-in-australia.html Sydney - More than 500 sheep were killed when a truck carrying them to an abattoir overturned on a bend in Australia's south-east. Victoria Police Sergeant Nick Buenin said Friday that the truck with 750 sheep on board hit a guard rail and slid on it... Australasia,World Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:10:22 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/295522,truck-crash-kills-500-sheep-in-australia.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/295643,frances-henry-tops-rogues-gallery-australian-paper-says.html Sydney - Thierry Henry's self-confessed handball to secure France a win over Ireland and a place in next year's World Cup has shot him to the top of sport's rogue's gallery, Australia's Daily Telegraph said Saturday. It claimed Henry had outplayed s... Sports Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:04:13 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/295643,frances-henry-tops-rogues-gallery-australian-paper-says.html