Hamas sent thousands of rockets into Israel, and aided Muslim Brotherhood attacks in Egypt: hence the blockade and closure of Egypt’s and Israel’s borders with Gaza. Hamas prevents Gazan doctors from having direct contact with either Israel...

A woman from the US Town of Omaha, Nebraska, has set up a cleaning business, which will have her doing chores in the nude. According to the Omaha World-Herald, the service was advertised in a flyer distributed to homes in parts of Omaha last week, and...

A “MONSTER” great white shark measuring up to six metres long is prowling a popular beach after biting another great white almost in half. Swimmers were warned to stay out of the water off Stradbroke Island after the shark mauled another...

YOUNG Toongabbie mother Lizel Antonio fears she and her three-month-old baby will be forced to leave Australia. Mrs Antonio, her husband Michael both 30 and from the Philippines and their son Marx face an uncertain future. She came to Australia seven...

Scientists in Australia have developed a new gene therapy vector that uses the same machinery as viruses to transport their cargo into cells. David Jans, from the Nuclear Signaling Laboratory at Monash University in Victoria, says that this achievement...

There are more than a million of them and they pose one of the greatest social and environmental challenges to Australia’s outback. They munch their way through desert vegetation, further denuding this arid nation’s heartland and...

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has warned that China has big economic interests at stake in the case of a mining executive accused of spying. He said the matter was being watched closely from abroad. Mr Rudd has been under pressure at home to be...

There have been two more attacks against Indians in Melbourne. While a student from Hyderabad was mugged, an Indian taxi driver was attacked by passengers. Earlier, a 20-year-old youth from Hyderabad was badly punched on the face. M A Khan, pursuing...

If I loathe anyone on the planet it is individuals who self-identify as “morning people”. I was forcefully reminded of this antipathy while watching footage of a day-in-the-life of Gary Rhodes on Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two.

According to Dr. Peter McCabe, a world-renowned scientist currently working at CSIRO in Australia, any realistic analysis of future energy sources can only conclude that, barring some complete and miraculous harmony between all the world’s economic...