Brisbane, Australia News

Quentin Bryce inspects the Federation Guard in Canberra after being sworn in yesterday as Australia's first female governor general enlarge Nearly 40 years after Germaine Greer wrote The Female Eunuch, ...

YELLOW SPRINGS - A towering sculpture called Wind Dragon at Olympic Park in Beijing is his.

Xinwen Mining Group, producer of more than 35 million metric tonnes a year of coal in China, will buy coal exploration permits in Australia for $1.5 billion to expand overseas.

View, landing On Nov. 11, 2005, DID relayed a report from the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz , which noted that Australia had purchased 18 Heron UAV systems.

An Australian mining company has won the right to continue exploration on land that includes a wildlife reserve run by the family of the late "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, a court ruled Wednesday.

ONE of Australia's flying legends, veteran aerobatic champion Barry Hempel, was not licensed to carry commercial passengers when his stunt plane plunged into the ocean off south-east Queensland on Sunday, ...

South East Asia News.Net Wednesday 3rd September, 2008 A private school in Brisbane has apologised to a 12-year-old Sikh boy it had refused to admit earlier this year because his turban breached the uniform ...

THE Australian Federal Police Commissioner, Mick Keelty, should stand down pending the outcome of the Clarke Inquiry into the handling of the Haneef case, the Australian Lawyers Alliance said yesterday.

London, September 1 : Experiments on mice conducted at Kyoto University in Japan have shown that new cells that some parts of the brain keep generating are key to learning and memory.

An Indian-born, American surgeon charged with manslaughter in connection with the deaths of three patients in Australia was ordered Monday to appear in court in February to determine whether there is sufficient evidence for a jury trial.

Dr. Jayant Patel, 58, has been free on bail in the Queensland state capital of Brisbane since he was extradited from his home in Portland, Oregon, in July.

He faces 13 charges, including manslaughter, causing grievous bodily harm and fraud relating to his employment as director of surgery at Queensland's Bundaberg Base Hospital between 2003 and 2005.

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Ajita Singh NEW DELHI, Aug. 23: If you dream of walking the streets the legendary cricketer Don Bradman once walked and played before he came to be known as 'The Don' or desire to inhabit one of the virgin ...

August 29, 2008 - 7:08 a.m. An Indian doctor jailed in Australia last year in a bungled terrorism case has officially been cleared, Australian police said Friday.

A cesarean childbirth procedure developed in the UK takes a "woman-centered" approach and incorporates many important aspects of natural childbirth, according to a recent report.

AN Australian veterinarian has died of a rare virus after treating infected horses at his clinic, the Queensland Health Department said yesterday.

An Australian photojournalist kidnapped by suspected Islamic insurgents in Somalia has been identified as Queensland man, Nigel Brennan.

Queensland Police have charged a man with attempted murder after a stabbing in Brisbane's eastern suburbs overnight.

A CAREER diplomat with close links to Kevin Rudd and his two prime ministerial predecessors has been given the job of steering Australia's first female governor-general through the vice-regal world.

A Canadian journalist and an Australian photojournalist kidnapped at gunpoint near the Somali capital of Mogadishu this weekend are believed to be held by militia in the northeastern neighbourhood of Suqa ...

At least 13 Australian families may have to return Indian children they adopted almost a decade ago, officials said.