Wellington, Sep 4 – A state of emergency was declared Saturday after Christchurch, the biggest city in New Zealand’s South Island, was extensively damaged by a massive 7.1-magnitude earthquake that flattened buildings, ripped up roads and cut power, water and sewage connections. The quake, centred only 10 km underground, was one of the biggest to [...]
Wellington, Sep 4 – The New Zealand city of Christchurch was extensively damaged early Saturday when it was hit by a massive 7.4-magnitude earthquake which flattened buildings, ripped up roads and cut power, water and sewage connections. The quake, which was centred 30 km west of the South Island’s biggest city at a depth of [...]
Sydney, Sep 3 – Champion swimmer Leisel Jones of Australia is more excited than apprehensive about competing in the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games because she feels that last minute work is not a new thing in big sporting events. The triple Olympic gold medallist was confident Friday that Delhi will host one of the best [...]
Sydney, Sep 3 – A former police officer in Australia who murdered his wife by pushing her off a cliff was Friday jailed for 33 years. Des Campbell, 52, who murdered his wife Janet, 49, by pushing her off a cliff, had married her only for her money, the prosecutor told the Supreme Court, adding [...]
Melbourne, Sep 3 – A man in Melbourne who admitted coercing underage girls he met on the internet to have sex with him was found guilty Friday of committing at least 26 sex crimes. John Raymond Zimmerman, 25, pleaded guilty to 26 sex crimes, including three counts of rape and nine counts of sexually penetrating [...]
Sydney, Sep 3 – Independent MP from Queensland Bob Katter Friday said he has sent a list of 20 conditions to Australian prime ministerial hopefuls Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott, saying ‘I’m still in a very powerful position here’. Incumbent Prime Minister Julia Gillard got a boost to her hopes of returning as the country’s [...]
Wellington, Sep 3 – New Zealand’s top golfer David Smail, who has been married for 25 years, revealed Friday that he had an affair with a Japanese woman but said he was no Tiger Woods. Smail, 40, told the Waikato Times, Hamilton, that the woman, Sato Kurihara, 27, threatened his life and her own when [...]
Melbourne, Sep 2 – The number of Indians granted student visas in Australia during the last financial year has fallen to 29,721, less than half of the number in 2008-09. Overall, the number of international student visas dropped more than 16 percent. The results follow a year of turmoil in the education sector, with legislative [...]
Sydney, Sep 2 – Israeli-American actress Natalie Portman shocked the 67th Venice International Film Festival (Sept 1-11) attendees with a steamy lesbian scene with Mila Kunis in ‘Black Swan’ that opened the gala. In the scene, Portman and Kunis hit the sheets together, reports hearldsun.co.au. Darren Aronofsky directed the film, which portrays Portman as a [...]
Sydney, Sep 2 – A former university tutor in Perth pressured a Chinese girl student and three other foreigners for sex in exchange of higher marks, Australia’s corruption watchdog has said. The former Curtin University tutor invited a vulnerable foreign student to his house and asked her to ‘satisfy him’ for higher marks, Australian new [...]
Melbourne, Sep 2 – Teenage rookie fast bowler Josh Hazlewood has been included in the 15-man squad Cricket Australia (CA) announced Thursday for the two-Test series in India. National selection panel (NSP) chairman Andrew Hilditch, announcing the squad, said that Phillip Hughes makes a return from a dislocated shoulder and wicketkeeper Brad Haddin has been [...]
Auckland, Sep 2 – Internet giant Google has been cleared of gathering personal wireless internet data during its street view operation in New Zealand. New Zealand police Thursday said they have found no evidence that Google committed a criminal offence, the New Zealand Herald reported. Police have, however, referred the matter back to the Privacy [...]
Sydney, Sep 2 – Independent MP from Tasmania, Andrew Wilkie decided Thursday to support the Labor Party, giving incumbent Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard 74 seats in her bid to form a minority government. Wilkie, who won the Denison seat, however, said his support to a returned Gillard government would only extend to not voting [...]
Melbourne, Sep 2 – A 42-year-old man’s ‘moment of madness’, which made him photograph under a woman’s skirt using his mobile phone at a Melbourne store, has led him to prison. A county court heard Thursday that Anthony Maguire had run after the woman as she boarded an escalator in the Southland Shopping Centre. He [...]
Sydney, Sep 1 – Front seats are safer than rear seats in a car, thanks to the addition of new safety features over the years. ‘We could save more lives and prevent more injuries if we paid the same attention to the rear seat of cars as we have to the front seat,’ says University [...]
Sydney, Sep 1 – After Brad Haddin and Shane Watson, now fast bowlers Brett Lee and Mitchell Johnson also say they were approached by the same Mumbai gangster, who targeted their team mates, for information during last year’s Ashes in England. Watson and Haddin said Tuesday that the gangster approached them during the Ashes and [...]
Melbourne, Sep 1 – A woman in Melbourne was Wednesday jailed for 27 years for killing her two minor sons in what she termed as her ‘greatest act of love’. Qualified nurse Donna Fitchett, 51, drugged, strangled and smothered her two sons — Thomas, 11, and Matthew, nine — at their home on Sep 6, [...]
Sydney, Sep 1 – Two minor girls – aged four and five – fell out of a first-floor window while jumping on a bed kept adjacent to it in Sydney. The four-year-old girl is in an induced coma after she hit her head, but broke the fall of her five-year-old friend who landed on top [...]
Sydney, Sep 1 – A state cabinet minister in Australia’s New South Wales who used his office computer to visit pornographic and gambling websites has resigned. Ports and Waterways Minister Paul McLeay resigned after confessing to Premier Kristina Keneally that he had ‘used a computer supplied by the parliament to visit gambling and adult sites’. [...]
Sydney, Sep 1 – Julia Gillard’s hopes of returning as Australia’s prime minister got a major boost Wednesday when Australian Greens MP Adam Bandt formally decided to go along with Labor, bringing its tally at par with the opposition coalition’s 73. Bandt signed an agreement with Gillard in her parliament office Wednesday morning. In return [...]
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