Tag: Australia

• Monday, November 11th 2019 - 11:06 UTC

  Australia bushfires: state of emergency along the eastern coast as it prepares for “catastrophic” conditions

  

  Authorities in Australia's Queensland and New South Wales states on Monday declared a state of emergency as the country's eastern region prepared for “catastrophic” fire conditions.

• Tuesday, October 29th 2019 - 18:54 UTC

  Australia files lawsuit against Alphabet Google for misleading consumers on stored personal data

  

  Australia's consumer regulator filed a lawsuit against Alphabet Inc's Google on Tuesday, alleging it misled consumers about how it was collecting, storing and using personal location data.

• Wednesday, October 23rd 2019 - 08:11 UTC

  Chris, the Australian Merino sheep with a 41.1kg fleece has died

  

  An Australian sheep that entered the Guinness World Records after being found with an enormously overgrown fleece has died, it was announced. Chris the merino sheep made global headlines after being found wandering alone outside Australia's capital Canberra with masses of wool sagging from its frame in 2015.

• Friday, September 13th 2019 - 11:43 UTC

  Australian giant seal helps catch a drug smuggling gang with US$ 690 million in cocaine

  

  Australian police have thwarted a billion-dollar international drug smuggling operation, reportedly with the help of a giant seal. An international investigation into the drug gang reached its climax last week after an abandoned yacht was found on the shoreline of Stick Island, off the coast of Western Australia, sparking a search for its occupants.

• Monday, September 9th 2019 - 08:44 UTC

  Australia battling more than 100 bushfires in what is expected to be a severe dry spring

  

  Australian firefighters battled more than 100 bushfires across two eastern states on Sunday as authorities warned that parts of the country could expected a severe bushfire season this summer.

• Wednesday, August 21st 2019 - 08:15 UTC

  Pedophile Cardinal appeal rejected by Australian court

  

  Convicted pedophile Cardinal George Pell had his appeal against child sex abuse charges rejected by an Australian court on Wednesday. Once the Vatican's third-ranking official, 78-year-old Pell was sentenced this year to six years in jail for sexually assaulting two 13-year-old choirboys at a Melbourne cathedral in the 1990s.

• Friday, July 19th 2019 - 09:30 UTC

  Giant manta ray asks for help with fishing hooks below its eye

  

  A giant manta ray with several fishing hooks caught below its eye appeared to ask two nearby divers for help in removing them and then waited patiently for them to do so.

• Monday, July 8th 2019 - 08:08 UTC

  Unesco recognizes Australian aboriginal 6.000-year old sophisticated aquaculture

  

  An Aboriginal settlement older than the pyramids that provides evidence that indigenous Australians developed sophisticated aquaculture thousands of years ago has been granted World Heritage status, the UN has announced.

• Friday, July 5th 2019 - 04:23 UTC

  Samsung sued in Australia for misleading publicity: allegedly Galaxy phones have proven not water proof

  

  Australia's competition regulator said on Thursday it is suing the local unit of South Korea's Samsung Electronics, alleging it misled consumers by promoting its Galaxy smartphones as water resistant.

• Wednesday, June 5th 2019 - 09:00 UTC

  Australian ex convict with a monitoring bracelet on a killing rampage

  

  The man accused of killing four men in a shooting spree in northern Australia while evading police for more than an hour was an ex-convict wearing a monitoring bracelet, authorities said on Wednesday, ordering an urgent review into parole procedures.