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Dual site agreed for Square Kilometre Array with antennae to be located in New Zealand and across nine African nations.

New submitter wirelessduck writes "After some recent complaints from a Labor MP about price markups on software and technology devices in Australia, Federal Government agencies decided to look in to the matter and an official parliamentary inquiry into the issue was started. 'The Federal Parliament's inquiry into local price markups on technology goods and services has gotten under way, with th...

España vendió armas por valor de 2.431,21 millones en 2011

AS Prime Minister Julia Gillard hobnobbed with US President Barack Obama and other world leaders at the Chicago Summit, a junior air force officer represented Australia at a nearby gathering of up and coming young global leaders.

AFTER a year of campaigning judges decide Australia and South Africa will share the world's largest radio telescope.

JOHANNESBURG  - The main base of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the world's most powerful radio telescope to be built by Australia and South Africa, will be located in the latter's Northern Cape province. The base will be situated near the towns of Carnarvon and Williston, sitting at an altitude of 1,000 metres (3,280 feet) on the arid plateau of Karoo. Authorities say that part of the ...

Unions condemn migrant worker decision as “sheer lunacy”

A consortium of countries chose South Africa and Australia to share a $1.87 billion radio telescope known as the Square Kilometer Array, or SKA, that will be the biggest and most sensitive instrument of its kind.

Scottish prop is convinced his side can defeat Australia on their trip to New South Wales and the Pacific Islands.

Scanning the sky 10,000 times faster and with 50 times the sensitivity of any other telescope, it will be able to detect weak signals that could indicate the presence of extraterrestrial life.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured Space Exploration Technologies’ Dragon cargo ship on Friday, the first privately owned vehicle to reach the orbital outpost.

Australia and South Africa will share the location for the world's most powerful radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array's scientific consortium announced on Friday.

AMSTERDAM (AP) -- An organization planning to build the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope says it will be constructed in both Australia and South Africa....

South Africa and Australia will share the location for the world's most powerful radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array's scientific consortium announced.

Australia plans to lay a red carpet to lure millionaire migrants offering them a fast-rack residency provided they invest around USD 5 million.

After the antics of one mad barber from Australia, two domain conferences and four scalps collected - the results are now in. Over $50,000 has been collected for one of the domain industry's favorite charities - the Water School. Today we acknowledge those who generously gave to this live saving organization.

Due le amichevoli di preparazione agli Europei: la Danimarca affronterà Brasile e Australia, rispettivamente il 26 maggio e il 2 giugno.

CABINET information was so widely shared within the government that it became hard to trace the Australia Network tender leak.

QANTAS and Jetstar will blitz rival Virgin Australia by adding almost 900,000 seats a year on key east coast routes from July.

MINING magnate Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest says Australia is "lucky to be next to Asia and not Europe", but says the debt crisis is a beat-up.

Creative musicians throughout the world, both professional and amateur, have been jamming on the interactive Google Doodle that simulates a Moog…

One Monday morning last spring, Ina May Gaskin got into her golf cart and drove it down the dirt road away from her home on the Farm, a community of 175 residents on a former commune in rural Tennessee that her husband started in the 1970s. She pulled up to the community center, where she would be teaching a class on delivering breech babies. The class was part of a weeklong seminar Gaskin and ...

Australia men's hockey coach Ric Charlesworth has bemoaned the Olympic match schedule after claiming it disadvantages his side and benefits their rivals.

LADY Gaga is planning to fly 20 of her closest friends to Australia all expenses paid as she's lonely.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australia denied Wednesday that it had agreed to treat young Indonesian people smugglers more leniently in return for Indonesia reducing the prison sentence of a high-profile Australian drug trafficker....

FORGET Australia, WA mining magnate Gina Rinehart is now the richest woman in the world - making a staggering $50 million a day.

Australia says no deal was done to cut convicted drug trafficker Schapelle Corby's jail term in exchange for releasing Indonesian minors.

JERSEY Shore star decided he needed professional help when he couldn't get out of bed to put his clothes on for appearance.

Australia is in the future, where it is already Robert Moog's birthday and you can play this fantastic Moog Google Doodle, complete with a record feature. Google Australia

A la competición de Cannes llegó Brad Pitt como productor y protagonista de 'Killing Them Softly' y revolucionó el festival, más por su popularidad que por la película, que es, de nuevo, una historia ultraviolenta de lucha entre bandas de gánsteres. Dirigida por el neozelandés criado en Australia Andrew Dominik, el recordado director de 'El asesinato de Jesse James por el cobarde Robert Ford', ...

The Deputy Prime Minister revealed that the new rules were effectively already in place, and had been since a meeting of Commonwealth leaders in Perth, Australia, last October.

A LEADING philanthropist says Western Australia runs the risk of squandering its chance to secure the long-term future of the arts. 

El actor australiano lo ha confirmado en su cuenta de Twitter: el rodaje comienza en agosto. Y esta vez tendrá lugar en Japón y Australia. 'The Wolverine' es ya la segunda entrega que narra la historia del x-men en solitario y, si todo sale según lo previsto, las garras del mutante brillarán en los cines en julio de 2013.

The black-faced dolls, imported from China by an Australian firm, have begun appearing in tourist and novelty shops in resorts north of Brisbane - and Aboriginal elders are furious.

Robin Gibb -- one-third of the Bee Gees, the pop group that stood at the forefront of the disco era with its "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack -- died Sunday after a long battler with cancer, according to a family spokesman. The singer-songwriter was 62. Although past reports said Gibb was battling liver cancer, Gibb did not acknowledge that publicly. Until recently, he seemed to be making wha...

SOUTH Australia needs a new name and the public should choose it, the state's peak business group says.

Nicole Richie, daughter of pop legend Lionel Richie, is making Australia her second home as she begins work here this week.

AMERICAN pop star shows off her spout pout — wearing a hat like a tea cosy at an airport in Sydney, Australia

[[400001]] Le marché du crédit en Europe s'est gelé en raison du l'aversion croissante pour le risque, ce qui pourrait augmenter le coût de financement des banques, a déclaré le directeur général de la banque Australia and New Zealand Banking (ANZ). Les prêteurs européens cherchent à préserver leur...

Le marché du crédit en Europe s'est gelé en raison du l'aversion croissante pour le risque, ce qui pourrait augmenter le coût de financement des banques, a déclaré le directeur général de la banque Australia and New Zealand Banking (ANZ). Les prêteurs européens cherchent à préserver leur capital...Articles en rapportFrancfort baisse à nouveau, aversion du risque et attentisme, Dax -0,84%Le Lond...

THE alleged American mastermind of a network of "boiler rooms" that raised $US35 million ($35.51 million) by preying on investors in Australia and other parts of the world has been charged in the US with operating a fraudulent stock sale scheme.

Surprising, given the amount of shenanigans he's gotten himself into while promoting this flick! While Sacha Baron Cohen's latest, The Dictator, has had a pretty impressive overseas debut, even opening in Australia at #1 on Wednesday and beating out The Avengers, the film hasn't fared nearly as well stateside, premiering yesterday to just $4.5 million in [...]

GRAFFITI The Parachuting Rat has been destroyed after workers in Melbourne, Australia, out pipes through it

@ennecke Auf dem Cover des State of the Climate 2012 (für Australia) ist eine Badenixe gezeigt. Was sagt dir das?

Better intelligence helped Australia seize a record amount of illicit drugs in the past year, a study showed Thursday.

The population of koalas decreased 42% in the last two decades and has suffered from habitat loss and new diseases...the Australian Government cataloged koalas as a "vulnerable species" in the list of threatened animals

Commodities booms can become double-edged swords for resource-rich countries, a lesson that Australia is now learning as a strong Australian dollar becomes an unbearable burden for much of its economy.

China has cricitised the United States for setting up a new military base in Australia, and accused both countries of having a "Cold War mentality".

Rugby:Dutch-born Edinburgh wing Tim Visser is one of five uncapped players included in Scotland’s summer tour squad to Australia. Fiji and Samoa.

The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group announced a new investment plan totaling 2 billion yuan ($317 million) in China.

The President spoke on the phone with Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard late last evening, to continue their regular consultations on Afghanistan ahead of the May 21 ISAF Summit in Chicago.  The President updated Prime Minister Gillard on recent key developments in the U.S. relationship with Afghanistan, including his recent trip to Afghanistan and the signing of the U.S.-Afghanistan St...

Wales have received formal confirmation that Mike Phillips and James Hook will be released by their French clubs for the start of preparations to face the Barbarians and Australia.

The news that Rebekah Brooks was to be charged with perverting the course of justice over the phone hacking scandal spread across the globe within minutes, with newspapers in India, America and Australia reporting the news.

Asian markets fell Tuesday on renewed fears that Greece could leave the euro zone, while a drop in the price of commodities pulled down miners in Australia.

Just outside of Adelade, Australia, there's a pedestrian-looking, bluestone church deserving of a second glance. Inside, the 1877 house of worship has been completely renovated and transformed into a thoroughly modern dwelling. It's such a unique residence that it's no surprise that it was snapped up almost immediately after it went on the market. More »...

The more Kate Garraway visits Australia, the more she falls in love with it. From Sydney to Perth, calling by South Australia too, the TV presenter soon clocks up the miles, and the adventures.

Sometime around junior high, this Weizmann science writer stumbled upon Mathematical Games, the late Martin Gardner's monthly math puzzle at the back of my mom's Scientific American, and I became a devotee. The best ones, of course, were those that required a little sideways thinking, and these yielded the pleasure of that "Aha" moment when the answer became clear. (For more o...

Ospreys fly-half Dan Biggar earns a Wales squad recall ahead of the June tour to Australia and clash against the Barbarians.

The 72-year-old from Nepal, who measures just 21.5inches (54.6cm) tall, has attracted an army of fans since claiming the Guinness World Record as the world's shortest man in February.

In the early hours of Saturday morning in the United States, Black Caviar, a superstar mare in Australia, did what she has always done; she won another race, her 21st consecutive.

The rich in Australia may soon be forced to pay "millionaires' tax" with the country's powerful trade union calling the government to slap such a tax, similar to US President Barack Obama's so-called "Buffett rule."

Who actually owns this domain? A World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) panel has ordered the domain name Pepper.com.au be transferred to Pepper Australia Pty Ltd, a home loan company. The case was filed under .au Dispute Resolution Policy, which is different from the standard UDRP. Compared to UDRP, the .au policy is more lax on [...]

When we last heard from Helen and John Taylor, they'd just finished a drive through all 48 contiguous states in a Chevy Cruze Eco, achieving 64.42 mpg in the process. Now, the couple from Melbourne, Australia has set a new record: 1,626 miles on a single tank of fuel. This time that fuel was diesel, and ...

A 24-year-old Indian, who cut his wife's throat eight times with a box cutter and left her bleeding to death, has been found guilty of manslaughter by the court which acquitted him of murder charge.

National Australia Bank (NAB), une des quatre grandes banques...

SPORTS DIGEST:Wales defence coach Shaun Edwards is to join the London Irish coaching staff after the Grand Slam winners’ summer tour to Australia.

The 18-year-old's proud mother looked elated to have her son back after months of gallivanting in the US and Australia with bandmates Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson.

Miners have been engaging in a national sport in Australia: complaining about how much things cost. And they have good reason.

Hungary edged the United States in the men’s water polo gold medal match at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but a rematch this summer will come far sooner than the medal rounds. The Americans join the nine-time champions in a loaded group that also includes perennial power Serbia, Romania and Britain. Greece, Italy, Kazakhstan, Spain, Australia and Croatia make up the other group for the 12-team com...

Australia aims to be first major advanced economy to return its budget to surplus following announcement of biggest cut in government spending in almost a quarter of a century

Australia's government delivered a promised surplus budget today, scrapping planned tax breaks but offering more cash to its traditional supporters to deflect attention from scandals that threaten prime minister Julia Gillard's grip on power.

Fashion images from the runways of the world. This week, a look at designs from Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia in Sydney

A team of scientists at the University of Western Australia believe they have come up with a jab to protect against deadly meningitis B, which could be widely available within five years.

Test-tube babies have higher rates of birth defects, and doctors have long wondered: Is it because of certain fertility treatments or infertility itself? A large new study from Australia suggests both may play a role....

Does evolution have a soft spot for blondes? About 5-10% of people from Melanesia, a group of islands northeast of Australia, have naturally blonde hair -- the highest prevalence outside Europe. Yet people from the region have the darkest skin pigmentation outside Africa...from Nature News

Aussies will delay decision by two years

Welsh tourists on a bender in Australia are fined for stealing a Sea World penguin.

Two-year delay puts country on same timetable as the United States

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australia announced on Thursday that to cut costs it is pushing back delivery of most of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighters it plans to buy from the United States....

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Arclight Films has picked up worldwide rights, excluding North America, for the Australian sci-fi action flick "Crawlspace," the company announced on Wednesday. The thriller will have its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and figures among the slate of edgy offerings in the company's Darclight division, Arclight also announced. "Crawlspace" centers on an eli...

Research In Motion (RIMM) today admitted that it was the force behind the “Wake Up” flashmob in Australia. Last week a crowd gathered outside an Apple (AAPL) store in the continent’s largest city, Sydney, chanting and holding signs with the phrase “Wake Up,” which was also spotted in other cities around the country. Although some [...]

En Australia se ha popularizado una comida vegetariana para mascotas con productos que no se derivan de los lácteos o las carnes

BlackBerry-maker’s ‘experiential activities’ initially blamed on larger rival Samsung

A RETIRED Irish priest has been charged with the rape and indecent assault of children in Sydney and the New South Wales Central Coast between 1972 and 1987.

Das Gemeinschaftsprojekt „Browse“ in Australien findet auch Anklang in Japan. Über Japan Australia LNG beteiligen sich Mitsui und Mitsubishi an dem Flüssiggasprojekt. Dabei sind auch andere große Unternehmen.

Australia slashed interest rates by a half a percent on Tuesday, as the central bank moved aggressively to address a weakening economy and easing inflation.

CANBERRA (Reuters) - An Australian billionaire announced plans on Monday to build an "unsinkable" version of the Titanic, 100 years after the original sank after hitting an iceberg.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Sunday moved to distance herself from growing anger at a series of government scandals, suspending a lawmaker accused of misusing funds, a week after the parliament Speaker stood down over a sexual harassment lawsuit.

International Fellowship of Christians and Jews branches out to South Korea, Australia, Bolivia.

Half-centuries from Ed Cowan and Ricky Ponting left Australia in control at the end of the third day of the final Test against the West Indies.

The tweets from Down Under began rubbing it in early and often. "Woke up to realize I'm watching the avengers today," went one. "So glad to b in Australia!" went...

The tweets from Down Under began rubbing it in early and often. "Woke up to realize I'm watching the avengers today," went one. "So glad to b in Australia!" went...

A MAIDEN Test century by Matthew Wade and an inspired spell of spin bowling by Nathan Lyon has given Australia total control of the Third Test.

Speaking to the Courier-Mail in his native Australia singer-songwriter Gotye expressed some frustration over Glee's recent rendition of his breakout hit "Somebody That I Used to Know" "They did such a faithful arrangement of the instrumentals but the vocals were that pop Glee style ultra dry sounded pretty tuned and the...

Bastian Schweinsteigers Freundin Sarah Brandner möchte Schauspielunterricht nehmen. Ihre erste TV-Rolle hat die Spielerfrau schon ergattert: Am Donnerstag ist sie im ZDF-Film "Bella Australia" zu sehen.

In a recent ad for Target Australia, which features a happy-looking family wearing on-sale fleece tops and tracks pants, lies a Photoshop fail of epic proportions.

LONDON (Reuters) - The world's top tobacco groups fear if new rules on plain packaging take hold in Australia and Britain they may spread to higher growth and potentially more lucrative emerging markets and put a curb on their future profits growth.

Scientists have now demonstrated that the Tasmanian tiger, also known as Tasmanian wolf or thylacine, possessed limited genetic variability prior to its extinction. This might have been caused by geographical isolation when Tasmania was isolated from mainland Australia 10-13 thousand years ago.

SYDNEY   -  Australia said Tuesday it will bring its troops home from Afghanistan a year earlier than planned with most soldiers withdrawn in 2013 after significant security gains over the past 18 months. Canberra has repeatedly said it intends to remain in the war-wracked nation until 2014 but Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Afghans would now be ready to take responsibility ...

SYDNEY   -  Australia said Tuesday it will bring its troops home from Afghanistan a year earlier than planned with most soldiers withdrawn in 2013 after significant security gains over the past 18 months. Canberra has repeatedly said it intends to remain in the war-wracked nation until 2014 but Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Afghans would now be ready to take responsibility ...

SYDNEY   -  Australia said Tuesday it will bring its troops home from Afghanistan a year earlier than planned with most soldiers withdrawn in 2013 after significant security gains over the past 18 months. Canberra has repeatedly said it intends to remain in the war-wracked nation until 2014 but Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Afghans would now be ready to take responsibility ...

Bodelshausen (ots) - Marc Cain goes Australia! Das internationale Modeunternehmen feiert am Freitag, den 20. April 2012, die Eröffnung des ersten Marc Cain Stores Australiens. "Nach Osteuropa und China setzen wir unsere internationale Erfolgsgeschichte auf einem neuen Kontinent fort. Der …

Everybody has to make a living somehow. So Dong Jiong, China's world champion badminton player, said he fully understands former teammate Huang Sui's decision to represent Australia.

Australia will start withdrawing troops from Afghanistan this year and expects all international forces there to be playing a supporting role for Afghan forces by mid-2013, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said today.

Australia expects to pull most of its troops out of Afghanistan nearly a year earlier than planned.

Flo Rida has been ordered to cough up $80,000 to a concert promoter in Australia for mysteriously bailing on a 2011 show at the last minute. Flo came under some serious fire when he failed to appear at the Fat as Butter music festival in Newscastle…

ACTRESS and cricketer will wed twice tying the knot in Britain and then in Australia

While promoting The Lucky One in Australia, Zac Efron was asked by radio hosts Mel & Matty (Side whisper: The boy one looks like an SNL cast member playing Zac Efron in a skit) to demonstrate his impressive one-handed bra removal trick. That's cute, but Zac doesn't ever have to strain his precious fingers by taking off a bra. Zac just has to raise his perfectly-manicu...

Meliodosis is currently poking its head above the surface in Australia and is causing a few problems. This nasty little disease is caused by the bacterial species with my favorite name, Burkholderia pseudomallei . Burkholderia pseudomallei on a plate. Credit - Wikimedia   [More]

The chef and girlfriend Lindsay Price step out in Sydney with their 5-month-old son Hudson

Andrea Petkovic will play for Germany when it faces Australia in the Fed Cup playoffs, replacing injured Sabine Lisicki.

One Direction fans are out in force as the British boyband hit Australia and Britney wants her fiance to be her joint guardian plus the rest of the day's entertainment headlines.

The Easter Bunny's days as a furry seasonal icon may be numbered in Australia, as conservationists move to replace it with the Easter Bilby.

Indian companies are likely to focus on acquiring coal and iron ore assets in the mining space this year, especially in Indonesia, Australia and Africa, says a report.

Heilige Wasserlöcher, geheimnisvolle Wandmalereien, Bush Tucker und Mud Crabbing: Im Outback des australischen Nordwestens, gewähren Ureinwohner authentische Einblicke.

A group of about 180 Marines arrived on Tuesday night under a deal that will boost the American military’s presence in China’s strategic backyard.

Australia plans to make it easier for US construction workers to move to Australia by changing assessment rules.

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's scientific research agency has reached a multi-million dollar out-of-court settlement in the United States over the use of its wireless internet technology which underpins wi-fi platforms worldwide.

(Reuters) - The Coast Guard on Sunday was conducting a rescue operation to aid four crew members from the Geraldton Western Australia who were injured when a big wave struck the yacht hundreds of miles west of San Francisco during an around-the-world race.

Australia’s stable banking market has always attracted foreign interest, but the latest entrants are no more likely to conquer than their predecessors

Making desert bloom was motto in Australia as well. In both places, environmental consequences were ignored.

An Australian newspaper’s report that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation had sabotaged competitors in the 1990s was dismissed by the company’s Australian media wing as “laughable.”

Bottlenose dolphins in Australia organise their complex society into gang-like groups of males, according to scientists.

National security concerns were cited as the Australian government said Huawei Technologies of China could not bid on contracts for a $38 billion nationwide broadband network.

Huawei and Australia

The consortium planning to build the world's most powerful radiotelescope is still debating whether SA or Australia should host the $2bn project.

Australian police say they have broken up a child pornography network, with the arrest of at least 13 men across the country.

22 March 2012 -- WHO Director-General Margaret Chan today urged the world to “stand shoulder to shoulder” against the tobacco industry’s attempts to overturn Australia’s new path breaking tobacco control law.

A former Penthouse Pet and swimsuit model accused of running a global crystal meth ring from Hollywood says she jumped bail in Australia and ...

CATERHAM F1 team reflect on a disappointing season opener in Australia

Tax on profits will affect about 30 companies; Association of smaller miners says tax will discourage investment

Apple’s new must-have device went on sale in Australia early on Friday, greeted by a throng of fans hoping to get hold of a 4G-ready tablet computer

* NAB sells A$86 mln in debt at 86-87 pct of par - sources

A scientific panel has narrowly recommended South Africa over Australia as the best site for the proposed Square Kilometre Array (SKA), an enormous radio telescope (see " Astronomy in South Africa: The long shot "). But the project's member states have yet to make a final decision on where the telescope will go. [More]

Utl.: Am 12. März im neuen Sport-Spartenkanal des ORF Wien (OTS) - Die Höhepunkte vom Weltcup-Finale im Naturbahnrodeln in Umhausen, eine Dokumentation über das "Race Across Australia" und Funsport sind die Programmhighlights von ORF SPORT + am Montag, dem 12. März 2012. Naturbahnrodeln: ...

As the glowing words slowly stop ringing in his ears and eventually turn into a muffled echo, Rahul Dravid will surely look back at this season and wonder: Was England just a sweet dream? Or, more painfully, did Australia need to follow?   As a top-level sportsperson, of course, he was always aware that he was living in a bubble: it could explode any moment and leave him exposed and vulnerable ...

GENERATION EMIGRATION: I’ve taught scuba diving in the Maldives, worked in Australia and built schools in India, and now, as I set up a new business linking Ireland and India, I’ve no intention of settling down, writes ÁINE EDWARDS

The Green Falcons were the biggest casualty on a busy night of World Cup qualifiers in Asia, leaving their famous Dutch boss' future in serious doubt.

Jordania, Irak, Corea del Sur, Líbano, Uzbekistán, Japón, Australia, Omán, Irán y Qatar se han clasificado para la siguiente fase.

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"Australia meets Austria" – ausgerechnet zwei Männer aus "Down under" sind in der Nacht auf Freitag als Graffiti-Sprayer in Wien-Heiligenstadt festgenommen worden. Das Duo im Alter von 23 und 31 Jahren hatte sich beim Bahnhof Heiligenstadt an zwei U-Bahn-Waggons zu schaffen gemacht und diese zur Gänze "verschönert". Jetzt befinden sich die Australier wegen schwerer Sachbeschädigung in Haft.

An inquest began hearing new evidence today into the 1980 death of baby Azaria Chamberlain, a case that has haunted Australia for decades and drew international attention after her parents said she had been killed by a dingo, or wild dog.

Police in Melbourne, Australia have recovered a body from a river in the search for a missing Irish tourist.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will carry out a comprehensive assessment of development pressure on the Great Barrier Reef to help preserve the world's largest coral reef system, ministers said Saturday.

Ein Mitglied der niederländischen Königsfamilie ist am Freitag von einem Schneebrett am Arlberg verschüttet worden. Skiurlauber sollten die Pisten derzeit nicht verlassen - denn es herrscht Gefahrenstufe 4. Von FOCUS-Online-Autorin Michaela StrassmairMehr zum ThemaTourismus - Was passiert, wenn Reiseveranstalter pleitegehen?Billigflieger - Air Australia ist pleite – 4000 Passagiere gestrandetPi...

Des avions Air Australia cloués au sol et 4 000 passagers bloqués à l'étranger. C'est le résultat de l'assèchement de trésorerie de la compagnie…

The Hubble space telescope has spotted a supermassive black hole floating on the outskirts of a large galaxy. The location is odd since black holes of this size generally form in the centers of galaxies, not their edges. This suggests that the black hole is the lone survivor of a now-disintegrated dwarf galaxy.

The international board members of the SKA radio telescope will meet on April 4 to decide whether the site will be built in SA or in Australia.

Madonna will go on tour from May for the first time in three years, starting in Israel before moving on to Europe, with legs in South America and Australia, where she has not performed for 20 years, tour promotion company Live Nation said.

Blog post by simon mackProject video trailers + TheSmack77 youtube linksonline video art works + promotion : started august 2011 into 2012:VIDEO TRAILER s3 minute trailer for this travelling video art Project. images by lorna crane (australia), ghayyan al amine (lebanon), hargreaves + mack (uk). further works by other artists to be added in due course for next exhibition cities refer to artist ...

Now, Game Group says it is reviewing the future of its 660 overseas outlets in France, Spain, Scandinavia, Australia and the Czech Republic.

Novak Djokovic wore down Rafael Nadal on Sunday, winning 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-7 (5), 7-5 after a marathon 5 hours, 53 minutes to claim his third Australian Open title

Nadal's four-set victory gives him an 8-2 edge over Federer in Grand Slam matches. Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka will meet for the women's title Saturday.MELBOURNE, Australia — Only the trophy and the tears were missing from this latest Grand Slam installment of Rafa vs. Roger.

Australia day ou pas, Henri Leconte ne comprend pas qu'un feu d'artifice puisse interrompre une demi-finale de l'Open d'Australie entre Rafael Nadal et Roger Federer.

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Some thoughts on Thursday's women's semifinals at the Australian Open, where Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka advanced with three-set victories to set up a final in which the winner will become the WTA's new No. 1 ...

THE OWNER of a Kilkenny nursing home who is accused of reckless abandonment of residents and theft of money from clients has been managing a nursing home in Melbourne, Australia.

Forbes.com just covered the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, ) (ACTA) which is an Agreement or treaty if you will, which contains some provisions “which are similar to – and more expansive than – anything we saw in SOPA.” The ACTA is being treated as by the US as an Executive Agreement rather than a treaty.  A treaty would have to be approved by the Senate, while an Executive Agreement can ...

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Australian regulators have fined Nokia, the world's largest cellphone maker by volume, A$55,000 ($58,000) for spamming customers and said the Finnish company should change its text message (SMS) marketing.

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray answer the bell for round two at the Australian Open on Thursday with neither expected to struggle on day four, while Maria Sharapova kicks off the action against qualifier Jamie Hampton on Rod Laver Arena.

Tennis star Shahar Pe’er faces difficult path to Australian Open glory, drawing a potential 2nd round match up with world No. 15 Sabine Lisicki.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Wildlife rangers have helped an Australian family deal with an uninvited guest: a 5-foot-6-inch (1.7-meter) crocodile that wandered into their living room....

Matthew VanBesien, a former orchestral musician, will return from Australia, where he is director of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

Sydney (ots/PRNewswire) - Feiernde aus der ganzen Welt können sich dank der neuesten Digital- und Sozialmedienkampagne von ?Tourism Australia' davon überzeugen, warum nichts einem Silvester in Sydney gleichkommt. Die Multimediabestände dieser Presseveröffentlichung finden Sie ...

WHO researchers are reporting a spike in Australia in the number of seasonal influenza cases resistant to Tamiflu, the antiviral drug.

South Africa and Australia are the last two remaining countries in the shortlist to host the Square Kilometre Array telescope.

In October 2009, MIT’s Solar Electric Vehicle Team competed in the World Solar Challenge in Australia, the world’s longest solar-powered car race. Technology Review sat down with team captain, Alex Arambula, and team member, Chris Pentacoff, to discuss preparing for and racing in Australia.

The critically acclaimed 'Underbelly' series from Australia is now available on DVD in the USA.

The U.S. says sales will help improve Australia's air mobility, humanitarian operations and disaster relief efforts in Southeast Asia.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will introduce a permanent guest worker scheme for citizens of poor neighbouring countries to address staff shortages in agriculture, government ministers said on Sunday. It will start on July 1 next year and follows a successful pilot scheme, the ministers said. A separate three-year trial will… Visit: http://www.nation.com.pk for full story

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A boat carrying illegal immigrants heading for Australia sank off the coast of east Java in Indonesia and over 300 people were missing with many feared dead, a senior emergency official said.

KARACHI (Online) - This year’s second as well as last total lunar eclipse was witnessed in Pakistan on Saturday.The lunar eclipse started at 4:34 pm (PST) and ended at 10:30pm, whereas Earth would overshadowed the Moon completely at around 7:32 pm.People in the Far East and Southeast Asia as well as Australia were able to observe this fabulous planetary phenomenon.

'Lucy can say hi to her grandparents in Australia on Skype.' My mom was telling me this via computer from Saskatchewan last week while she and my son had a digital dinner date

The most senior U.S. defense official to visit China since the latest controversial U.S. arms sales to Taiwan said she sought to reassure Beijing that it wasn't the target of a U.S. strategic shift toward Asia, including the deployment of 2,500 Marines to Australia.

Mit einem Sieg beim "Ironman Western Australia" hat sich Timo Bracht (Eberbach) vorzeitig für den legendären Ironman 2012 auf Hawaii qualifiziert.

Elton John's husband David Furnish has had to leave Australia for emergency medical treatment in Los Angeles while the singer is mid-tour Down Under.

Australian authorities must do more to assist the victims of human trafficking, particularly when the victims are children, an independent United Nations human rights expert has warned at the end of an official visit to the country.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Apple's iPhone is the world's hottest smartphone - and one iPhone in Australia appears to be the hottest of the bunch as it spontaneously began smoking last week....

Minister says at least 100 bridging visas will be issued each month

Obama says the move will shore up alliances in Asia. China sees darker motives.

FORTUNE -- It's hard enough to design a car that's both safe and high performance, but throw energy efficient into the mix and you've got a big task on your hands. That's what 30 undergraduate Stanford University students attempted to accomplish with Xenith, an entirely solar powered car. The vehicle made its debut at the World Solar Challenge in Australia in late October.

The USA enters Day 2 of the Presidents Cup with a 4-2 lead on the Internationals in Australia. USA TODAY will blog it live.

The American president insisted his historic visit to Australia was not about China. But, of course, that's exactly what it was about.

DARWIN, Australia — As President Obama arrived in Bali, Indonesia, on Thursday for the final leg of his Asia Pacific tour, the White House announced several private trade deals in the region that could total $25 billion and support 127,000 jobs in the United States. A deal by Boeing to sell 240 airplanes to Lion Air in Indonesia for $21.7 billion constitutes the lion’s share of the announcement...

CANBERRA, Australia — The United States announced plans Wednesday to establish a permanent military presence in Australia, part of a high-profile foreign policy shift toward Asia that is intended as a counterbalance to China’s growing power. Starting next summer, the U.S. will send 250 Marines to bases here for six-month tours, eventually rotating 2,500 troops through the country. President Oba...

Tiger Woods walked off golf course to see his name atop the leaderboard Friday in the Australian Open.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Australia is set to unlock more than A$13 billion in government funds for clean energy that could boost investments for large solar power stations, but wind farm developers are...

En el último año, 65% del territorio mexicano figura en las listas de zonas inseguras elaboradas por los gobiernos de Australia, Estados Unidos, Francia, Italia, Reino Unido, España y Alemania debido a la violencia asociada al narco y el crimen organizado

For some of Down Under's most spectacular scenery, Belinda Sunshine takes an iconic train from Sydney to Perth.Traveling on the Indian Pacific is an exhilarating adventure and a great eye-opener as it rolls across the diversity of the Australian landscape.

As Libya's leader Muammar al-Qaddafi vowed today to escalate his campaign to crush the popular uprising that threatens his rule, the country's cadre of once loyal foreign envoys began offering up resignations and challenging the strongman's decision to crack down violently on civilians. In the past 24 hours, Libyan diplomats posted in the United States, the United Nations, the Arab Lea...

I don't care if it's "slacktivism" but this Facebook campaign is incredibly funny: launching DDOS attacks on God  by simultaneous prayer As you may already be aware, recently the Atheist Founation of Australia and the Global Atheist Convention websites were the target of a significant DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack, which began on Monday 19 October.This is a call to all non-believe...