Darwin, Australia News

Her dad, Simon Nasalga Sr., was a decorated Filipino U.S. Army World War II veteran who died in 1981 at the age of 60. He earned a medal for the Asiatic Pacific Campaign, ribbons for the Papua and New Guinea campaigns, a distinguished unit badge for the liberation of the Philippines and a Bronze Star for the Luzon campaign.

LTLT Mark Shaw, 40, schedules missions and liaises with pilots and "customers" from surveillance for a vehicle convoys to reconnaissance for Special Forces troops storming a compound at the Heron aircraft base on Kandahar Airfield.

1933 - Charles Kingsford Smith in a Percival Gull IV lands in Darwin, Australia, after flying from Lympne Aerodrome in England; the trip sets a record for solo flight between the two countries in 7 days, 4 hours and 44 minutes.

HUNDREDS of charges have been laid against four men and two women in a year-long drug trafficking investigation involving South Australian and the Northern Territory.

Ofelia Fischman stands with Veteran's Service Officer Sean Stephens in his office on Monday, Dec. 9, 2013, in San Rafael, Calif.

The championship, which will open In Darwin on September 20, will then return to NSW after a year's hiatus.

Qantas budget offshoot Jetstar will further reduce flights to the Northern Territory and close its aircraft base in Darwin, blaming intense competition from foreign airlines.

The Australian Conservation Foundation says it is time the Ranger uranium mine was closed permanently after yet another spill in Kakadu National Park, east of Darwin.

Rio Tinto Group's Energy Resources Australia Ltd. tumbled the most in almost two years in Sydney trading after a spill of acid and ore at its Ranger uranium mine near the world heritage-listed Kakadu National Park.

The championship, which will open In Darwin on September 20, will then return to NSW after a year's hiatus.

An architect has spoken of her horror at getting struck with a bout of diarrhoea while out for a run with her dog - only to find that her beloved pooch had been taken by overzealous council bods while she was on the loo.

Full-power TV analog broadcasts in the United States ended more than four years ago, but many other countries have still been operating in the analog mode.

London, Dec. 4: In an attempt to prove that there is nothing "shocking or scary" about women's private parts, an Australian artist has started knitting with a ball of wool that she shoves up her vagina every day.

A DARWIN pianist has made an impressive comeback and been named the best performer in her category by the Australian Music Examinations Board .

TOP END building approvals outstripped the rest of the nation as a percentage for the month of October, continuing a trend of strong housing figures which is expected to continue into early next year.

SYDNEY: Australian researchers on Tuesday launched the world's first crocodile attack database, hoping to establish whether conservation of the reptiles had "come back to bite itself".

Jonathon Andrew Stenberg, 47, shot and decapitated Edward "Ned" Kelly, 54, at his Broadwater home on the NSW north coast in June last year.

Jason M. Hough Jason M. Hough was born in Illinois but grew up on the mean streets of suburban San Diego, California.

Fill 'er up: A liquefied natural gas tanker operated by Energy Advance Co., a unit of Tokyo Gas Co., is moored at the ConocoPhillips LNG facility in Darwin, Australia, in April 2012.

GLOBETROTTING siblings Jack and Josie Condron are in the middle of the adventure of a lifetime in their 30-year-old Mini - an epic round-the-world drive.