Tag: Australia

• Tuesday, December 1st 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  Wheat prices fell after Australia forecasted its second highest crop ever

  

  Wheat prices fell after Australia forecast its second-highest crop ever and Russia proposed curtailing grain exports next year. Wheat futures fell as much as 3.3% in Chicago trading, the lowest for the contract in almost eight weeks. Corn and soybeans also fell following rainfall in South America during the weekend.

• Saturday, November 28th 2020 - 08:58 UTC

  Australia's extreme heat wave with 40c temperatures announced for this weekend

  

  Australia’s extreme weekend heatwave has begun, with temperatures set to soar to 40 centigrade and increase the risk of bushfires in some states. The Bureau of Meteorology has dubbed it “the most significant heat wave of the season yet” and said it will impact millions of Aussies.

• Monday, November 23rd 2020 - 08:07 UTC

  Another man dies bitten by a shark at a popular beach in Australia

  

  A man has died after being bitten by a shark at a beach popular with tourists on Australia's northwest coast, authorities said on Sunday. Police were called to a Cable Beach in the morning after reports of the attack.

• Monday, October 26th 2020 - 07:18 UTC

  Another shark attack in Australia's Great Barrier Reef

  

  A 59-year-old man is in critical condition after a shark attacked him on Sunday at Australia's Great Barrier Reef, near the north Queensland city of Townsville, rescuers said.

• Tuesday, October 13th 2020 - 06:50 UTC

  World envy: Crowd of 47,000 will pack Auckland's Eden Park for the All Blacks vs Wallabies test match

  

  New Zealand Rugby is expecting a “near-capacity” crowd of some 47,000 to pack into Auckland's Eden Park for the second Bledisloe Cup international against Australia on Sunday.

• Monday, October 12th 2020 - 09:11 UTC

  Icebreaker “donation” for Argentina? Australia's “Aurora Australis”?

  

  According to reports in the Argentine media next November the Australian flagged icebreaker Aurora Australis will be docking in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, and then head for Buenos Aires where, allegedly, she will be incorporated to the Argentine navy fleet and will be participating next to ARA Almirante Irizar in the 2020/21 Antarctica campaign.

• Friday, October 9th 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  Drone captures a white shark circling a surfer off the Australian coast

  

  A dramatic close encounter between Australian world championship surfer Matt Wilkinson and a shark off the east coast of the country was captured by a drone, showing the shark circle him, close in, and then dart away from his feet.

• Friday, September 25th 2020 - 08:36 UTC

  Grim experience for Australian authorities, euthanizing and disposing of some 400 whale carcasses

  

  Australian officials were focusing on the grim task of disposing of almost 400 whale carcasses on Thursday, while attempts to rescue the few remaining survivors of one of the world’s worst mass strandings were expected to extend another day.

• Tuesday, September 15th 2020 - 08:31 UTC

  Australia and New Zealand iron out quarantine dispute ahead of Wallabies-All Blacks test matches

  

  New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Tuesday she had telephoned Australian counterpart Scott Morrison to defuse tensions over a scheduling dispute between the countries' rugby teams.

• Thursday, September 10th 2020 - 09:16 UTC

  Massive star scanning confirms that so far, there are no extraterrestrial civilizations

  

  Scientists have completed the broadest search to date for extraterrestrial civilizations by scanning roughly 10.3 million stars using a radio telescope in Australia, but have found nothing – not yet, at least.