Melbourne, Australia News Archives

Costumed fans of the cult musical The Rocky Horror Show have braved the cold in Brighton to smash the Guinness world record for the largest Time Warp dance.

Not long after news of Dennis Hopper's cancer broke, he canceled his current projects and went to USC to begin a "special program." According to manager Sam Maydew, Dennis Hopper was diagnosed with prostate cancer recently.

From The People Crew and Pop Magazine: Nice Try will be shown at the Kaleide Theatre on Friday October 30th, 2009 in Melbourne Australia.

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.

Rival gangs in Melbourne, Australia clashed during a concert featuring Akon and T-Pain on Sunday , leaving 18 people injured -- 11 of them hospitalized and treated for lacerations, bruises and other minor injuries.

ARCH ENEMY drummer Daniel Erlandsson will take part in a signing session at Drumtek in Melbourne, Australia on Wednesday, November 4 at 6:30 p.m. There will be a limited number of FREE souvenir color posters on the night to get signed.

An Australian professor who researches northern Indigenous populations has been announced as the 2010 Roberta Bondar Postdoctoral Fellow in Northern and Polar Studies.

Main Category: Cancer / Oncology Also Included In: Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma Genetics Professor Suzanne Cory, the former director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia, has been named the recipient of the 2009 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize.

Barbara of Melbourne, Australia's "1700" conducted an interview with MEGADETH guitarist Chris Broderick when the band played the Festival Hall in Melbourne on October 9 with SLAYER .

Nadia J. Chaves, 1 Katherine B. Gibney, 1 Karin Leder, Daniel P. O'Brien, Caroline Marshall, and Beverley-Ann Biggs Author affiliations: Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia ; Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ; Mdecins sans Frontires Holland, Amsterdam, the Netherlands ; and University of Melbourne, Parkville ...

Share + Oct 23, 2009 3:01 pm US/Eastern LOS ANGELES 1 of 1 Kanye West performs on stage at the Melbourne stop of the Good Vibrations Festival 2008 at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Feb.

A ROUTINE TV news bulletin ends up looking more like a barmy sci-fi movie - with the appearance of a giant SEAGULL.

Melbourne to Warrnambool Classic - History Trivia Question. Liege-Bastogne-Liege is the world's oldest one day race.

It took one shot for an East Texas senior to put an end to a would-be robber's crime spree.

Actress Cate Blanchett poses for photographers as she arrives at the 'Screen Worlds: The story of film, television and digital culture' exhibition opening at Federation Square on September 17, 2009 in Melbourne, Australia.

Director Spike Jonze chose to film " Where The Wild Things Are " on location with puppets, rather than in front of a blue screen; an expensive gamble that paid off, considering the movie brought in 32.5 million dollars this weekend.

Oil prices eased in Asian trade Monday as the US dollar recovered against the major currencies, analysts said.

The CCTV footage shows a baby's pram rolling off a train platform as the mother makes a desperate lunge to save her son, but she is too late and it tumbles on to the rails in front of an incoming train.

The rate of undesirable events in teaching hospitals increases at the beginning of the academic year, regardless of trainees' level of clinical experience, concludes new research from Australia published on bmj.com. At the beginning of an academic year, teaching hospitals around the world accept an influx of new trainees and fellows, and doctors ...

When the new crop of interns and residents report for duty at the nation's teaching hospitals each year -- patients beware.

A miraculous story out of Melbourne, Australia where a baby survives a freak train accident.

If you ever doubted the existence of angels, you may change your mind after you see this in Melbourne, Australia, A mom lets go of her 6 month old's carriage to adjust her pants.

Police in Australia say a 6-month-old baby has miraculously survived a train hitting his stroller that had rolled onto the tracks.

Shocking CCTV footage of a six-month-old boy's lucky escape after his pram rolled under a train has been released.

Monash biomedical engineer Brian Lithgow has developed electrovestibulography which is something akin to an 'ECG for the mind'. Patterns of electrical activity in the brain's vestibular system are measured against distinct response patterns found in depression, schizophrenia and other Central Nervous System disorders.

Dean & Britta are currently in Melbourne, Australia to perform 13 Most Beautiful as part of the Melbourne Arts Festival.

After zipping around the countryside on my third day in Melbourne, Australia, Day Four was to be a decidedly urban affair--a self-guided tour of some of the city's architectural marvels with stops ranging from the ultra-modern to some of Victoria's foundational buildings.

Aaron Britt , our intrepid editor abroad, shares the sights seen on the third day of his architectural sojourn to Melbourne, Australia .

An Australian racing meet has been strongly criticised by the government after it featured a "novelty" race involving dwarves dressed as jockeys.

VIDEO: Daryl Somers responds Almost 30,000 people voted and more than 1500 left comments after Hey Hey's guest judge, American crooner Harry Connick Jr, said he would not have taken part in the show had he known about the performance.

The glow of Australia's rosy economy is failing to shine on many tourism operators who fear the soaring dollar could cost them their business, according to the sector's peak bodies.

Video footage of CONTRIVE frontman Paul Haug singing the classic SLAYER song "Dead Skin Mask" with the legendary California thrashers this past Friday night at Festival Hall in Melbourne, Australia can be viewed below.

Southeastern Australia's Melbourne is widely regarded as the nation's cultural and sports capital and is consistently ranked as one of the world's most livable cities.

According to Slayerized.com , SLAYER bassist/vocalist Tom Araya blew out his voice prior to last night's concert in Melbourne, Australia, forcing the band to play some its songs as instrumentals or with members of other groups helping out on lead vocals.

The flight was epic, and though a good book and a couple films were surely necessary, from the standpoint of design the best thing going on the Qantas flight was by the Marc Newsomdesigned dishes.

Ingres OpenROAD is heading down a new and improved path with the help of a two-day community event focused on improving the solution.

An Australian man accused of throwing his four-year-old daughter off of a Melbourne bridge earlier this year pleaded not guilty to her murder.

Cancer Therapeutics CRC Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia today announced a collaboration with Duke University, North Carolina, USA to discover and develop new drugs for the treatment of many forms of cancer, based on research undertaken by the laboratory of Duke Professor Patrick Casey.

A major increase in innovative concepts for exciting therapeutic and preventive new products in Australia has led to an expansion of GZP's activities Down Under, to better support clients in their efforts to take their programs to the US Food and Drug Administration.

Featuring 90 clones running through the streets of Melbourne, Australia, the live art piece 'Take Off Your Skin' by Katie Harmsworth caused a stir at the Melbourne Fringe Festival.

Horseheads' Adriane Kinner may look like she's clowning around, but she's really learning a new variation of the arts.

Golf star Greg Norman and tennis great Chris Evert attend the 23rd Sport Australia Hall of Fame dinner at Crown Casino on October 11, 2007 in Melbourne, Australia.

Sorry again folks but the last few places haven't had any internet access, in fact I am writing this from a cafe in Queenstown which has free internet access with any purchase.

MELBOURNE / NEW DELHI: A 28-year-old Indian student was attacked in the north-west of Melbourne, adding one more to the series of recent attacks on Indians in Australia over the past few months, a report said Friday.

SLAYER guitarist Kerry King will take part in an in-store signing session at Allans Music in Melbourne, Australia on Friday, October 9 at 3:30 p.m. For more information, see the poster below.