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The first world records of the London 2012 Olympics have been set by a blind South Korean archer hours before Friday’s much-anticipated opening ceremony was due to begin. Im Dong Hyun is legally classified as blind and cannot see out of his right eye, but it did not stop the two-time gold medalist bettering his […]
In Sydney, Australia a teenage girl posted a few to many details about her family (As seven-teen-year-old girls often do). Only this time, it didn’t go unnoticed. She posted on Facebook a picture of herself in front of a large sum of money that she was helping her seventy-two-year-old grandma […]
The world economy has run into a brick wall. Despite countless warnings in recent years about the need to address a looming hunger crisis in poor countries and a looming energy crisis worldwide, world leaders failed to think ahead.
A clinical psychologist practicing in Newcastle, Australia, Michael Currie has worked with adolescent boys and their families for 20 years. Much of his attention has centered on the anger that can consume boys during their high school years.
Lofty, lovely and fertile are the valleys of the Samoa Islands, which lie in the South Pacific more than halfway from Hawaii to New Zealand, in the latitude of Australia's northernmost tip. Some of the islands, including Upolu , were once a German, have been since the War a New Zealand mandate.
On the afternoon of April 28, 1996, Martin Bryant snapped. A striking figure with his long blond hair and milky skin, he had just eaten lunch at a caf within the historic site of Port Arthur, a former prison in Australia’s island state of Tasmania
Asia stocks rise as China manufacturing gains pace Asian stock markets climbed Monday, boosted by faster growth in Chinese manufacturing and expectations the U.S. central bank will pump more money into the world’s largest economy to rejuvenate a sluggish recovery. Oil prices rose to near $82 a barrel following the release in Shanghai of a […]
No one can say exactly what it looks like when a planet takes ill, but it probably looks a lot like Earth.
Valentino Rossi was crowned MotoGP world champion for the sixth time as he took third place in Sunday’s Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang behind Casey Stoner of Australia.