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 Brandon Walters, aboriginal child who stars in the new movie Australia, got into the spotlights on Tuesday, speaking about the creation on the country’s biggest movie. The kid stole the audience’s attention who was supposed to be listening to Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, the main characters in the film. Kidman together with Jackman...
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 Australian actress Nicole Kidman will interpret the role of transsexual Einar Wegner in The Danish Girl. She will play together with Charlize Theron, who will perform as Greta Wegener, her wife. The movie will be based on the true story of the two Danish artists. In the 1920s their story created a worldwide scandal that started in...
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It is a very dirty job to have a look at a person’s life and concentrate it
in half page or in a box of DVDs. What do we know after all about Clint Eastwood? We have all seen at least one of
his movies – maybe in which he played, maybe one he directed. We have all chosen afterwards one side – whether we like him or not....
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 Black Eyed Peas singer and
producer Will.i.am will make his acting debut in the upcoming X-Men film “X-Men
Origins: Wolverine,” starring Hugh Jackman.
William Adams, aka Will.i.am,
will play the part of John Wraith, a mutant who has the ability to teleport
himself, Variety reports.
The feature film is a...
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 A test made by Procter & Gamble by using Intrinsa testosterone patches in women announced on Wednesday that a high dose of the male hormone can give a little but meaningful improvement in the sexual lives of post-menopausal women. Before the study began, the women stated that they had had 2-1/2 satisfying sexual acts during one...
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According to the outcome of a large study of cancer drug
Avastin, adding it to the chemotherapy really slows tumor growth. It wasfurther investigated which dosage is the most efficient.
The investigation was conducted by Swiss drug firm Roche AG, which sells Avastin in Europe.
It was the second clinical trial which had the...
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 Scientists in Australia
and Greece
seem to draw near to identifying genes that determine which test-tube embryos
are the best for implanting in the womb and growing into healthy babies,
Reuters informs.
There hasn’t been yet found a way of
telling which embryos are likely to become successful pregnancies and which
have...
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Lewis Hamilton is just one step away from being crowned Formula One's youngest ever world drivers' champion in only his second season in the sport.
The McLaren-Mercedes driver goes goes into Sunday's final race of the season, the Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos, holding a seven- point lead over Ferrari's Felipe Massa and needs just...
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 Australia’s Casey Stoner recorded his sixth victory in 11 races Sunday, wining the U.S. Grand Prix at Laguna Seca. The podium was completed by fellow countryman Chris Vermeulen and Marco Melandri from Italy, who managed to finish in the top 3 despite suffering from a dislocated right ankle caused by a crash in Saturday's...
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 NASCAR driver David Gilliland got off to a rocky start when a late-race accident on Sunday caused him to finish 32nd out of an original 43-car field. He is sponsored by the FCC and the crash almost ruined his DTV Transition Ford. FCC gave him a $350,000 sponsorship in three short-track races. In a race summary on his Web site, Gilliland...
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 The University of Missouri has been for the second time this year the victim of a serious data theft that affected the accounts of more than 22,000 individuals associated with the University.The University is unable as of this moment to comment upon whether there was a single attacker or a group of hackers that have accessed one of...
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After leading the way in responding to the world financial crisis, Europe could be facing headwinds as it attempts to press on with a rapid and comprehensive overhaul of the global finance sector.
Gone are the high-minded calls for sweeping changes to the international financial system as proposed only a few weeks ago by French...
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One of the five remaining British veterans of World War I has died at the age of 108 in Australia, where he moved in 1928, the BBC reported Thursday.
Sydney Maurice Lucas, who was born in Leicester, in central England, on September 21, 1900, regularly led the annual Anzac Day parade in Melbourne, said the report.
He was among the...
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said Tuesday Sweden has agreed to contribute 4.7 million dollars to a financing facility that aims to promote clean energy in the region.
With the contribution, Sweden joined Norway and Australia as the third contributor to the multi-donor Clean Energy Financing Partnership Facility, which is...
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Markets across the Asia-Pacific ended a roller-coaster week mixed on Friday with key bourses in Hong Kong and Tokyo down despite a much-anticipated rate cut by the Bank of Japan.
Asian markets had posted significant gains mid-week with daily surges of up to 10 per cent or even more after a rate cut in the United States, making up...
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An Australian man of German extraction wanted in Germany on charges of denying the mass killing of Jews in the Holocaust has been freed on bail by a court in London following extradition proceedings.
Westminster Magistrate's Court confirmed Thursday that a judge had thrown out an extradition bid from Germany for 64-year-old Gerald...
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Lance Armstrong returns to competitive cycling this weekend when he takes part in two time trial events in Gruene, Texas, the cycling news internet site reported Wednesday.
The 37-year-old American has registered for Saturday's 26- kilometre-long individual time trial before joining John Korioth for Sunday's team event over...
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Italian police arrested five men Monday - including the mayors of two towns - in raids targeting attempts by the Calabrian mafia, the 'Ngrangheta, to infiltrate local goverment.
The suspended mayor of the southern port city of Gioia Tauro, Giorgio Dal Torrione, his deputy, Rosario Schiavone, and Carlo Martelli, the mayor of another...
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Samples taken from cyclists at the Giro d'Italia will not be retested for the latest generation of the blood booster EPO, CERA, Italian news reports said on Friday.
The Giro director Angelo Zomegnan was quoted in Friday's La Gazzetta dello Sport as saying that there was no necessity to retest the samples.
"The anti-doping...
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Dublin and Washington have signed a deal to allow 20,000 Irish school leavers to live and work in the US for 12 months and also allow 5,000 US citizens to live and work in Ireland for the same length of time, the Irish Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
Foreign Minister Micheal Martin signed the deal on Wednesday with US Deputy...
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Other industrial nations besides the United States should begin drawing up plans to shore up their financial sectors, the head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, said in an article published Tuesday in the French daily Le Monde.
After praising the bailout measures proposed by the US government, Strauss-Kahn...
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Financial stocks led a rally on almost all world stock markets Monday, caused by the US government's decision to take control of embattled mortgage backers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The only significant market indices to buck the trend were China's Shanghai Composite and the smaller Shenzhen Component, which fell 2.7 and 3.0 per...
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Romanian police broke up a dating fraud ring that preyed on US and Canadian nationals and made 130,000 dollars with fake promises of romance, news reports said Tuesday.
Based in the Romanian city of Cluj, the 11 suspects allegedly set up false internet profiles of Romanians looking for love, then asked for travel money when their...
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A garden gnome stolen from a woman in England has finally made its way home after a seven-month world tour, British media reported Tuesday.
Grandmother Eve Stuart-Kelso recently found the gnome, called Murphy, back in her garden in the western English county of Gloucestershire with a photo album showing him in 10 countries.
The...
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After decades of often agonizing debate, the
Church of England (CoE) has voted in favour of the ordination of women
bishops - a move that is seen as changing the face of the lead church
in the worldwide Anglican movement forever.
There were silent prayers, tears of anger and scenes of jubilation
when a 2:1 majority of the General...
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 Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who is due to meet
Queen Elizabeth II in London
on Monday, admitted his aim to remove her as head of state, but claimed turning
his nation in to a republic, is not a “top order priority.”
“Her Majesty the Queen is regarded with much respect right
across all Australians,” he declared for...
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 President Nicolas Sarkozy claims France
will reduce its total number of nuclear arsenal to less than 300 warheads and has
asked the U.S. and China to stop
weapons tests. He said the reduction would leave France with “half the maximum
number of warheads we had during the Cold War,” according to BBC News.
Sarkozy...
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 Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip Monday retraced their
steps down the aisle of Westminster Abbey in London to mark the diamond
anniversary of their wedding there 60 years ago.
The queen, 81, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 86, were at the centre of
a Service of Thanksgiving, attended by 2,000 guests, and members of...
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Authorities in Australia and Britain began releasing detained persons suspected to be linked to the failed car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow, a laboratory assistant being freed after almost two weeks.The woman, Marwa Asha, 27, was arrested along with her Jordanian husband Mohammed Asha, 26, on June 30 hours after a burning Jeep...
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 Six years ago, extravagant Swiss-born millionaire Bernard
Weber initiated the New7Wonders campaign, amid criticism from experts and the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
People all around the globe were supposed to cast their votes
through the internet or cell phone text message for the new seven...
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 Britain remembered Saturday the horrific moments that filled the soles of hundreds on July 7, 2005 in London, when four bombs exploded on three Underground trains and a double-decker bus during the morning rush hour.Survivors of the terrible incidents and relatives of the slain ones brought an homage to those killed by Islamic...
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 British authorities prolonged the bench warrant for the Iraqi doctor accused of conspiring to cause explosions until a trial scheduled to take place on July 27. The 27-year-old Bilal Abdullah was accused of ramming the blazing Jeep Cherokee with Indian aeronautical engineer Kafeel Ahmed into the Glasgow main airport terminal last...
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 Last week’s attacks in London and Glasgow triggered a massive hunt for the culprits and the entire terrorist structure, British authorities announcing on Friday the cell was tracked down.The country’s premier Gordon Brown said British security and intelligence forces “got to the bottom of the cell,” but people have to maintain their...
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Australians were shocked to learn Tuesday that the Navy ships that protect their shores were taking most of the southern hemisphere summer off so sailors could holiday with their families.
"It's about getting a culture in place that's about working smarter not harder, and I think we owe that to our people," Navy Chief Vice...
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Hollywood star Nicole Kidman said Tuesday her acting career may be over as her focus shifts to family and a second child with fellow Australian Keith Urban.
"I'm in a place in my life where I've had some great opportunities, but there are many things I want to do besides act," the 41-year-old Oscar winner said. "In...
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A mongrel called Diesel received a bravery award and the biggest bone in the butcher's shop Friday after proving to be man's best friend.
Diesel put his life on the line last month to save a 3-year-old boy from a deadly brown snake on his family's farm in Queensland, in north-eastern Australia.
The courageous canine took two...
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Five Australians facing terrorism charges had stockpiled chemicals to make a bomb and kill non-Muslims, a court in Sydney was told Tuesday.
Crown prosecutor Richard Maidment said the five men divided the world into those who shared their faith and those who didn't and were committed to "the application of extreme force and...
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Around half of the Australian government's 21-billion-Australian-dollar (14.7-billion-US-dollar) surplus will be spent in trying to ward off a recession, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Tuesday.
To breathe life back into consumer spending habits, around a quarter of the country's adults will receive an early financial Christmas...
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Australian tourism officials are hoping that a new advertising campaign linked to the feature film Australia, starring local actors Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, will bring visitors flocking to the continent.
Tourism Australia managing director Geoff Buckley said Wednesday he hoped the television commercials, one featuring New York...
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An Australian on Tuesday bet 50,000 Australian dollars (40,000 US
dollars) on Barack Obama winning the November US presidential election.
"Until the last week, the money was fairly evenly split between
McCain and Obama, but it has been all one-way traffic this week, with
punters jumping off the McCain train," Sportingbet...
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Australian stocks shifted into reverse late Monday after getting an initial bounce from the long-awaited US bail-out package.
The ASX 200 slipped 97 points, or 2 per cent, to close at 4,807.
Initial enthusiasm evaporated as analysts digested the terms of a package that may cost US taxpayers 700 billion US dollars. The details of...
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United States cyclist Lance Armstrong is on track to make his official comeback to professional road racing in Australia in January, organizers of the Tour Down Under said Sunday.
The 37-year-old announced his retirement after winning the Tour de France a record seven times in 2005 but has said he will try for an eighth triumph in the...
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Australia on Friday came to the aid of second-tier banks and non-bank lenders by offering to buy residential- mortgage-backed securities worth 4 billion Australian dollars (3.3 billion US dollars).
The mortgage market has been in the doldrums because of the global credit crisis, sparking fears that non-bank lenders will go...
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US cyclist Lance Armstrong will make his official comeback to professional road racing in January at the Tour Down Under in Australia, organizers of the Adelaide stage race said Wednesday.
Armstrong announced his retirement after winning the Tour de France a record seven times in 2005 but has said he would try for an eighth triumph in...
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Australia's securities regulator Friday joined its counterparts in the United States and Britain in curbing the short-selling of shares that has contributed to the tumult on stock markets.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) ruled that from Monday a temporary ban on what's called naked short-selling would take...
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More than 2 per cent was wiped off the value of Australian shares Thursday in response to a 4-per-cent fall on Wall Street.
The ASX 200 gave up 115 points, or 2.4 per cent, to close at 4,607.
A fourth day of losses was stemmed by bargain-hunting near the close that dragged the market up from an intraday low of 4,563.
Stocks are...
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A 77-year-old motorist who thought a passenger train would give way for her at a level crossing in Outback Australia was disabused when the venerable Ghan luxury locomotive shunted her car aside near Alice Springs on Thursday.
"She slowed for the train to give way but she actually thought the train was slowing for her, so she...
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Malcolm Turnbull, elected Tuesday as the leader of Australia's opposition Liberal Party, is the conservative politician from central casting: well-groomed, well-educated, well-connected and, well, rich.
He's the wealthiest member of the Canberra Parliament, thanks to a career in business that saw him start information-technology...
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An Australian cleric and five of his followers Monday were found guilty of forming a terrorist cell and face possible life terms when sentence is passed.
Four of the group of 12 Melbourne Muslims were declared innocent and two have yet to receive a verdict on the terrorism-related charges against them.
Algerian-born Abdul Nacer...
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Australia announced Wednesday it will provide 50 billion rupiah (5.36 million dollars) to help improve food security and reduce malnutrition among children in eastern Indonesia, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said.
The contribution was announced by Australian Ambassador to Indonesia, Bill Farmer, while visiting a clinic...
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Senior scientists on Tuesday lambasted Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's top climate-change adviser for recommending only a 10-per-cent cut in Australia's greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.
In an interim report delivered last week, economist Ross Garnaut said even his 10-per-cent cut should be conditional on a global deal committing all...
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Australian sports fans expecting a river of gold in Beijing were Tuesday warned to brace for a disappointing haul of Olympic medals.
"We said 42 to 48 medals. I think it's going to be between 40 and 42," Australian Olympic Committee president John Coates said.
"We didn't know coming into these games how much China,...
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Leighton Holdings Ltd, Australia's biggest construction company, on Thursday reported a 35-per-cent jump in profits, mostly on a rise in contract mining.
Leighton, which is 55-per-cent owned by Germany's Hochtief AG and delivers around 70 per cent of its profits, said profit rose to 607 million Australian dollars (520 million US...
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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd praised the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Tuesday while pushing his vision of an Asian Pacific Community by 2020.
In a whirlwind visit to Singapore, Rudd laid a wreath at Kranji war cemetery before dawn, met with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong and...
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 An exploding cylinder might have made a hole in the fuselage of a Qantas Airways plane while it was flying on Friday, therefore the crew had to make an emergency landing in the Philippines. No passenger was injured.`”We've likely had a cylinder event,'' said today Neville Blyth, senior transport safety inspector at the Australian...
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 Pope Benedict XVI is expected to express his apologies to
the victims of sexual abuse inflicted by Roman Catholic clergy when he visits Australia for
World Youth Day next week, the church's senior cleric in the country announced
on Monday.
Cardinal George Pell declared that the pope had communicated
his disgrace and remorse over...
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An Australian heartbroken man who decided to put his life on
sale on the Internet was bewildered to see that bids to buy his existence had
reached about $2 million, while he thought it was only worth a quarter of that
sum.
Ian Usher, who emigrated from England to Australia six years
ago, first auctioned his life on eBay in March,...
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 Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Japanese Prime
Minister Yasuo Fukuda agreed on Thursday not to let the whale-hunt issue to
intervene in their partnership. During their several-hour talk the two decided
that the dispute over Japan's
annual whale hunts should not come between their plans to strengthen their
security and...
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 Sydney, Australia – The investigations of a global child
pornography network obliged the Australian police take measures and entitled
them to arrest 70 people and to remove four children from their homes. Twenty
other persons are expected to appear in front of the court the following days
and more arrests are foreseen.
All of them...
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 Australian police arrested eight protesters after they
climbed a fence into a government site Wednesday in order to protest the
culling of 400 kangaroos, which are viewed as sacred symbols by Australians, Reuters
reports.
The eight Aboriginal activists led by renowned activist Isabel Coe climbed
over a gate to enter the abandoned...
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 Representatives of an animal protective
group demanded the Australian military to stop the killing of 400 kangaroos in
the capital Canberra.
Wildlife Protection Association of Australia president, Pat O'Brien,
said Tuesday he and other protesters planned to intervene if the killing
continued. The Defense Department says 400 eastern...
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 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...
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 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...
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 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...
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 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...
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 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...
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 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...
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 Two anti-whaling activists taken hostage by Japanese whalers in
Antarctica earlier this week have been freed and are now on the
Australian ship the Oceanic Viking, the Sea Shepherd protest
organization said Friday.
Australian Benjamin Potts, 28, and Briton Giles Lane, 35, were
detained since they risked their lives boarding a...
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Australia on Thursday offered to send a ship to secure the freedom of
two anti-whaling activists held by Japanese whalers in Antarctica.
Australian Benjamin Potts, 28, and Briton Giles Lane, 35, have been
detained since they forced their way aboard a Japanese harpoon vessel
on Tuesday.
A stalemate has developed with the Japanese...
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Japan has ordered the release of two activists detained when they
boarded one of its harpoon vessels in Antarctica to deliver an
anti-whaling protest, Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said
Wednesday.
Paul Watson, the captain of the Steve Irwin protest ship, said the
conditions set for the release of Australia Benjamin...
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 An Australian court on Tuesday ruled Japanese whaling in the Antarctic illegal but admitted it had no power to stop it.
The Federal Court, in a hearing brought by the Humane Society
International, declared the Japanese in contravention of Australian
environment protection legislation because they were killing and
injuring minke and...
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 An Australian ship left Perth on Tuesday to monitor Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean.
Oceanic Viking, which had 30 Customs officers on board, will spend
20 days gathering video evidence for a possible international court
action on Japan's intention this season of catching 935 minke whales
and 50 fin whales.
Initially, 50...
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 Al-Qaeda soldier David Hicks, the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be
convicted on terrorism offences, is set to leave an Australian jail
Saturday six years after being captured by US forces while fighting
with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Hicks, 32, pleaded guilty to providing material support for terrorism at his US military...
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 A court ruling Friday cleared the way for an Indian doctor held briefly
on terrorism charges to return to his job in an Australian hospital.
In a further boost for Mohamed Haneef, Immigration Minister Chris
Evans said the Indian doctor was free to return to Australia under his
original visa.
Lawyers for Mohamed Haneef were...
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 New Zealand and Australia announced Wednesday they will lead a formal
diplomatic protest against Japan's move to catch more than 1,000 whales
in the Antarctic over the southern hemisphere summer.
At the same time, the Greenpeace environmental organization's
protest ship Esperanza left Auckland in a bid to stop four Japanese
boats...
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 The Australian government was warned Tuesday against sending a warship
to confront the Japanese whaling fleet expected this week in the
Southern Ocean.
The Labor Party that took power after last month's general election
has pledged to stop whaling and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is mulling
options for when the whaling season...
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 Heads are expected to roll in Australia after nine Aborigines who
pleaded guilty to the gang rape of a 10-year-old girl were set free by
a court in far-north Queensland.
There were calls Tuesday for the judge and the crown prosecutor to
be sacked after a transcript of the proceedings revealed the former
said the girl...
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Serial confidence trickster and international playboy Peter Foster was jailed by a Brisbane court Friday on money laundering charges linked to a property deal in the South Pacific.
Foster, 45, will spend at least four years in jail after pleading guilty to fraudulently obtaining a bank loan of 234,000 US dollars from the tiny Pacific...
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