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Less than 24 hours after ‘Steve Irwin Day’ celebrations at Australia Zoo, Cape York’s Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve is ablaze—with countless animals believed to have perished.
Archaeologists in Egypt say they have discovered the remains of a 50,000-strong Persian army buried by a sandstorm in 525 BC.
French secret agents have arrested a worker at the CERN lab, home to the experimental Large Hadron Collider, on suspicion of links to al-Qaeda.
Consumption of crystal meth or ‘ice’ is declining in Australia, according to new figures released by the National Drug and Alcohol Research Council.
Sydneysiders have spent most of the day blanketed in a thick cloud of red dust blown over from far inland.
The National Tertiary Education Union has warned vice-chancellors to match Sydney University’s 18 per cent pay rise offer or suffer a ‘brain drain’.
The state-run China Daily newspaper has conceded that two-thirds of the country’s organ donors are executed prisoners.
A recent Herald/Nielsen poll shows that, despite Senate delays, 55 per cent of voters back the introduction of the Rudd Government’s emissions trading scheme, which would increase the cost of electricity.
A number of doctors have slammed the growing trend of diagnosing children with “oppositional defiant disorder” (ODD) simply because they misbehave.
A 43-year-old British man is facing up to 70 years in a US prison after allegedly hacking into military and NASA computer systems.
Critics are describing as “Orwellian” a decision by bookseller Amazon.com to remotely access Kindle e-book readers and delete copies of books the company wasn’t licensed to sell, including George Orwell’s own Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Researchers at James Cook University in Queensland say that Earth’s tropical zone has expanded by as much as 500 kilometres in the past 25 years.
A decision to switch from the University Admission Index (UAI) to the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) means that New South Wales students will no longer be able to achieve a mark of 100 in their Higher School Certificate. The new top mark is 99.95.
Research from Barnard College in New York has shown that a dog’s guilty-looking expression comes in response to your behaviour, not the animal’s sense of shame.
Despite the downturn, University of New South Wales academics are agitating for a 20 per cent pay rise.
Egyptians have welcomed the news, eager to hear details of a story from their history in which sand plays a major role.
