Melbourne, Australia News

Tommy Thayer, Paul Stanly, Eric Singer and Gene Simmons of the band 'KISS' pose for the media during a press conference at the Crown Towers on March 12, 2008 in Melbourne, Australia.

The 6th World Congress of Chinese Medicine 2009 kicked off Saturday in Southern Australian city of Melbourne, with 700 Chinese medicine scholars and professionals gathered here hoping to introduce Chinese medicine to the world, reported China's Xinhua news agency.

World stock markets fell Wednesday amid ongoing worries about sovereign credit risks and ahead of a key budgetary policy statement from the British government.

Many religious leaders will descend at the UN Copenhagen Climate Conference this week.

London, Dec 8 : A funeral home in Australia has come up with the idea of burying dead people vertically in order to be able to save space.

The Harbor City could forge a formal pact with a Chinese community that is home to the giant panda.

Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker addressing the media in Melbourne yesterday following the airline's inaugural flight to the Australian city as Qatar Airways Senior Vice president Marwan Koleilat and Tim Holding, Victoria State Minister for Tourism and Major Events look on.

A Borders headteacher found dead after a critical school inspection felt the process had been "torturous" and undermined her professional life, an inquiry has heard.

Home : Canada : Aussie government to deport Canadian on hunger strike Aussie government to deport Canadian on hunger strike Date: Monday Dec.

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators crashed Minister Silvan Shalom's hotel in Melbourne, Australia on Sunday.

Radio Australia - Lyndhurst In our program today, you will hear the second major feature item, in which we honor Radio Australia on the occasion of its 70th anniversary.

Understanding how kangaroos repair their DNA could be the key to preventing skin cancer in the future, according to new research by Linda Feketeova and Uta Wille at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Free Radical Chemistry and Biotechnology at The Univ.

Police in Melbourne, Australia, are reportedly irate at the revelation that two priests who were under investigation for sexual abuse were warned by an investigator working for the Melbourne archdiocese.

A top official in the California State University system wasted more than $152,000, according to a report released Thursday by state Auditor Elaine Howle.

Shirley Paulson, a Glenview resident since 1974, is scheduled to present a 90-minute program at World Parliament of Religions in Melbourne, Australia, Saturday.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. & MELBOURNE, Australia -- -- Invetech, an innovator in new product development and custom automation for the biomedical, industrial and consumer markets, today announced that it has delivered the world's first production model 3D bio-printer to Organovo, developers of the proprietary NovoGen bioprinting technology.

The denial of funding to the Atheists Convention is further proof of the Government's courting of the religious right.

IT may take decades for police to get on top of alcohol-fuelled violence in Melbourne, Victoria Police chief Simon Overland is expected to say in a speech today.

The Federal Secretary of the Australian Nursing Federation , Ged Kearney, has been nominated as a candidate to run for the head of the country's peak union body, the ACTU, it was announced today.

Robert Mills Architect Pty Ltd The new timber, zinc and concrete Ross Street home is a study in surprise.