Tag: Sydney
London Olympics motto – ‘Inspire a generation’
London: With 100 days to go for the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, chairman of the Games organising committee Lord Sebastian Coe...
Australia spells out Afghanistan exit plan
Sydney: Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced an early withdrawal of Australian troops from Afghanistan Tuesday, a day after the 18-hour terror siege of Kabul...
Nazi victims’ items to be displayed in Australia
Sydney: Over 3,000 personal items - mostly wallets, photos and wristwatches - that were stripped from prisoners on their way to Nazi concentration camps...
Snake in flight grounds plane
Sydney: A pilot in Australia was forced to turn his plane around after noticing a snake slithering across the control panel.
Pilot Braden Blennerhassett, with...
Gillard urges students to be careful on internet
Sydney: Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has urged students to be careful on the internet following an incident in which some schoolgirls uploaded a...
US marines arrive in Australia
Sydney: The first batch of about 200 US marines have arrived in Australia's Darwin city as part of a defence deal, Australian Defence Minister...
Akhilesh Yadav to be UP’s youngest CM
Lucknow: Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is set to get its youngest Chief Minister in 38-year-old Akhilesh Yadav, with the Samajwadi Party (SP) legislature...
Australia dismisses loss of overseas students as ‘good thing’
Sydney: Unfazed by a massive drop of $3 billion in the revenue from international students in the last one year, Australian Tertiary Education Minister...
Floods hit Sydney
Sydney: Torrential rains hit Sydney Thursday, causing flash floods and transport chaos in the city.
The Bureau of Meteorology said about 119 mm of rain...
Indian billionaires jostle for coal in Australia
Sydney: Driven by an insatiable demand for energy back home, a number of Indian billionaires are jostling to get their hands on Australian coal...
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