Jamelle Agbuis

Chinese Taipei's Lu Wei-chih had a crucial birdie on the closing hole to thank after it gave him his second Asian Tour title at the Yeangder Tournament Players Championship (TPC) on Sunday.

Fast bowler Patrick Cummins may have risen through the ranks so quickly that Australia's Twenty20 captain Cameron White is yet to see him bowl in the flesh, but the 18-year-old's pace is already quickening pulses.

The nation of Finland has now openly admitted that the swine flu vaccine "conclusively" causes narcolepsy, a chronic nervous system disorder that makes people uncontrollably fall asleep. The Finnish government, in acknowledging this link, says it will pay for "lifetime medical care" for 79 children who have been irreparably damaged by the swine flu vaccine.

With the poor quality of many of today's conventional meat products, a vegetarian diet just might be an appropriate fit for some modern children, one of three that are now overweight in the US.

Pharmacies have already begun promoting walk-in flu shots for the "flu season". The late and early months of each year seem to be when more of us catch colds and come down with the flu. So what measures can you take to ensure you are not sidelined with nagging colds or a debilitating flu episode?

Unheralded Sydney marketing executive Andrew Crawley caused the upset of the Caterpillar Underground Mining Tour of Tasmania with a breakaway victory in the fifth stage, a 72km cruise from Westbury to Deloraine, via a cluster of pretty Western Tiers townships.

Washington was the first state to pass a law against human trafficking in 2003, but so far there are only two convictions. "Where we are with human trafficking today is where we were with domestic violence 30 or 40 years ago," say a top law enforcer.

Without paid sick days, 44 million hard-working Americans are forced to choose between the job they need and the family they love when they or a family member gets sick.

The Aurora Australis, or the southern lights as it is often called, is visible from the high southern latitudes in Antarctica, South America and Australia. This natural light display is caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high latitude atmosphere.

It is well known that without rules chaos abounds. In the business world we protect ourselves against disorder by setting down formidable volumes of policies and procedures.

And shares in mining services and rail group Bradken Ltd finished up 3c yesterday at $6.24 after the company's AGM in Sydney was told earnings in the 2012 were on track.

A Princeton University graduate student has created a real flying carpet, a sheet of plastic that travels through the air in a manner not unlike the way giant manta rays swim through the water.

Shares of coal miner New Hope soared yesterday after the company said it had received several takeover proposals and revealed it will launch a formal process to assess the offers.

More evidence the Australian economy is better placed than all the business and consumer sentiment surveys have been suggesting.

Brokers can do a better job of detecting mortgage fraud by getting to know customers more closely.

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The FBAA has announced the line-up for its inaugural conference, with president Peter White promising the event will contain a wealth of practical information, and be more than "a piss up".

Australia's regulatory agency for medical drugs, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) today warned health professionals and consumers against topiramate, an anti-epilepsy drug, being used for weight loss programs.

Increasingly, we are hearing about HR applications becoming available on smartphones and web-enabled devices. Is this just a fad or can real productivity gains be made by using this technology?

Growing your own fish food for aquaponics is the holy grail for many folk wishing to be autonomous and not dependent on commercial fish food pellets.

A sharp rally on Wall Street has halted the three day sell off around the world.

Stand by for the mother of all speculative binges about whether the Reserve Bank will cut interest rates at next month's board meeting.

Right now in New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver, Seattle, and a growing number of other cities, tens of thousands of protestors of all stripes and political persuasions are marching in protest of the corporate corruption that has infiltrated and taken control of the US government -- and the mainstream media (MSM), of course, has been virtually absent in covering this massive and escalating demonstration against the current state of US politics.

Queensland's Robbie McEwen has claimed a second stage win and overall honours in the Tour de Wallonie Picarde in Belgium.

University of Maryland's beautiful and butterfly-roofed WaterShed wins the 2011 Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C., while Appalachian State's Solar Homestead picks up the People's Choice Award.

European and Asian stockmarkets fell sharply yesterday on rising concerns of a Greek sovereign default, and additional worries over China's financial health.

World's highest peak can now be viewed from the comfort of your personal computer.

The global stockmarket continues to have a bad case of multiple personality, worrying about Greece and the eurozone imploding one day, and then reversing those fears the next.

The black-footed ferret was declared extinct in 1979, two years before a small band of survivors turned up in Wyoming. And now, after 30 years of rehab, the species is one of America's top conservation success stories.