Australia Travel News

Brisbane - Australia's Friendliest City - Welcomes Britney Spears. Britney Shops in City's Premier CBD Shopping Hub Queen's Plaza Britney shops in Brisbane's most up-market retail centre It is great to see that Britney Spears is able to enjoy her time-out in Australia doing normal things with her kids.

Two giant pandas from China were welcomed to Australia on Saturday with gifts of bamboo and a city party before settling into their new home, a 25-acre natural enclosure at the Adelaide Zoo.

AUSTRALIAN parents have been warned against buying cheap, discount toys as Christmas presents after hundreds of toys were found containing dangerous amounts of lead.

Singer Britney Spears arrives at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards held at Gibson Amphitheatre on August 9, 2009 in Universal City, California.

Cases of attacks on Indians in Australia have increased more than five fold this year compared to last year, the Rajya Sabha was informed today.

Wang Wang and Funi are due to arrive in Adelaide on Saturday at 7:45 a.m. local time after a long trip from their home at the Panda Protection and Research Center at Ya'an in China's Sichuan Province.

SYDNEY>> When Steve Franklin bought four plane tickets on Qantas last June, he faced an unexpected expense: a surcharge of 7.70 Australian dollars on each of the 136.70-dollar tickets -- just for using his Visa credit card.

Australian News.Net Wednesday 25th November, 2009 Photographs published Wednesday in Australia of an anonymous couple having sex in a Sydney clock tower in full view of midday shoppers sparked a flurry of confessions on talkback radio.

Golden Gate Bridge officials announced Tuesday they are seeking a firm to develop interactive programs that would allow visitors to get a "behind the scenes" look at the span.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Airlines will launch two new weekly non-stop flights from Kuala Lumpur to Brisbane effective March 28, 2010.

Destination of the week : Leon, Spain Is this northern Spain's loveliest city? Decide for yourself by watching 48 Hours In ... on Travel Channel at 9pm on Tuesday.

PARENTS desperate to save NSW's only boarding school for severely disabled children are appealing to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to stop its closure.

West Indies captain Chris Gayle, who left his team's tour of Australia to be with his sick mother, will head Down Under tomorrow and hopes to play in the first Test, Jamaican media has reported.

This airfare-only deal out of L.A. takes you to Sydney and then Cairns, with a free tour in each city.

QANTAS has moved to reassure passengers that an engineers strike would not ground flights and travellers could check departure times on mobile phones and its website.

VIRGIN Blue chief Brett Godfrey says he hopes airfares will return to stronger prices soon.

With a mountain of luggage and Jack Kerouac as company, Alan Mascarenhas endures a day at LAX.

An 81-year-old Australian man who became lost on an early morning drive to the shops and ended up almost 600 kilometres away told police he failed to stop because he "liked to drive". Eric Steward was visiting friends in Yass, a country town south of Sydney in New South Wales state, when he left to buy a newspaper at about 7:30am on Monday morning.

Centro Properties Group, which became one of the first casualties of the global credit crunch, says there are signs the retail environment in the United States may be improving.

A $107 MILLION bid for Fielders Australia is on the table, although one of the company's feuding shareholders says it has no knowledge of the move.