New Australian Laws in Favor of the Gay Community
New Australian Laws in Favor of the Gay Community

The Australian gay community will have a few reasons to be happy about from now on. Wednesday, the Australian government announced that about one hundred laws will be changed in favor of the same-sex couples. However, marriages for gay and lesbians were still not accepted. Attorney General Robert McClelland said that the changes come for the gay...

New Australian Laws in Favor of the Gay Community
 
 

Australian Pokes Shark in Eye to Escape Death
A lucky Australian swimmer managed to survive a shark attack by punching and poking the beast in the eyes, as it dragged him through the water after badly savaging his left leg, Reuters reports. Jason Cull was swimming off a beach on Australia’s southwest coast on Sunday when the 12 feet shark attacked. “Initially I thought it...

Australian Pokes Shark in Eye to Escape Death

New Australian Laws in Favor of the Gay Community
The Australian gay community will have a few reasons to be happy about from now on. Wednesday, the Australian government announced that about one hundred laws will be changed in favor of the same-sex couples. However, marriages for gay and lesbians were still not accepted. Attorney General Robert McClelland said that the changes come...

New Australian Laws in Favor of the Gay Community

Shark Attack Kills Australian Teen
An Australian teenager was killed in a shark attack on Tuesday while surfing with a friend at Balina, on the New South Wales coast, Reuters reports. Brock Curtis-Matthew tried to help his 16-year-old friend, Peter Edmonds, swimming towards him, even though he knew that the shark was in the water. He managed to get his friend up onto...

Shark Attack Kills Australian Teen

Australian Man Fathers a Baby with Daughter
An Australian woman who had an apparently healthy baby with her father pleaded for approval of the couple’s incestuous relationship. Both father and daughter appeared on national television with their nine-old-month child, Celeste. After going public, they are currently being monitored by police and social services. Jenny...

Australian Man Fathers a Baby with Daughter

Australia Starts the Fight against Global Warming
Governments around the world are trying to reduce emissions of carbon gases because these are responsible for global warming. Australia has made the first step in this process. A large underground carbon storage facility was opened in the southern state of Victoria, near the town of Warrnambool, west of Melbourne. It will capture...

Australia Starts the Fight against Global Warming

New Zealand Teen Convicted of Cyber Crime
A New Zealand teenager was convicted on Tuesday due to his major role in a global cyber crime ring that managed to infect nearly 1.3 million computers worldwide and caused $20 million in losses. The investigation was launched after an assault involving 50,000 computers crashed the server at the University of Pennsylvania in the...

New Zealand Teen Convicted of Cyber Crime

Woman Stabs Two Pilots in Hijack Attempt
Two pilots were wounded by a woman in an attempt to hijack a regional domestic flight in New Zealand Friday, the Associated Press reports. The woman was carrying a knife and stabbed the two pilots, and also threatened to blow up the 19-seat Jetstream J32, which had on board four New Zealanders, an Australian and an Indian...

Woman Stabs Two Pilots in Hijack Attempt

“Stolen Children” To Receive Apologies from the Australian Government
The new Australian Prime Minister Kevin Ruud will present the first formal apology to “the stolen generations” for the policies led in the past by the state of Australia, according to which Aboriginal children were taken from their families. The apology will be made on Feb. 13 and represents the first topic on the agenda in the...

“Stolen Children” To Receive Apologies from the Australian Government

New Zealand Bids Farewell to Everest Conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary
The people of New Zealand and the mountain Sherpas of Nepal joined Tuesday in Auckland at the state funeral of Everest conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary, to honour a man loved and revered in both countries. "He was a colossus. He was our hero," said New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark. "His extraordinary life has been...

New Zealand Bids Farewell to Everest Conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary

New Zealanders Pay Their Respects to Everest Conqueror
Thousands of New Zealanders defied heavy rain on Monday to pay their respects to the country's greatest modern-day hero, Everest conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary, who died on January 11, as he lay in state at Auckland's Anglican Cathedral. The cathedral's doors will stay open all night to allow thousands of mourners to file past the...

New Zealanders Pay Their Respects to Everest Conqueror
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