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Hot issues such as the carbon tax and income tax rates were thrown to Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Wednesday when she served for one hour as live blogger on The Telegraph.

About 64 per cent of 1,000 Australian businesses surveyed by the Pricewaterhouse Cooper's (PwC) Private Business Barometer worry about the direct hit their business will suffer from the carbon tax.

China, in just barely less than a week, has sent again into orbit another remote-sensing satellite. Although this time, it has yet to confirm that this particular one launched was a spy satellite.

It was likely that monstrous dinosaurs once roamed the Australian continent eons of years ago and while the land mass was still attached to a super sub-continent that scientists called Gondwana.

Senior ministers in the Gillard administration had warned on Monday that the carbon tax is killing the government. Their warning includes suggestions to change the sales pitch for the tax and to redesign the pricing.

A new remote sensing satellite has been hurtled into space by China, the world's second-largest economy, on Sunday.

Piko-chan flew out of the window of his home near Tokyo, and couldn’t find his way back.

Not far from the ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, a thousand Israelis gathered in the nude. But they weren't planning a biblical orgy, and no one got turned into a pillar of salt. It was all about drawing attention to the Dead Sea, which is rapidly drying up.

The British tabloids were delighted with this story of a 9-year-old boy who called downstairs to his mother that there was a fox snoozing on his bed.

The planet’s one and only moon is entering its full phase and it is about to make a dramatic show this Saturday. The lonely satellite will look like a super moon to people who could catch it at the right time. Here are seven things you need to know about the super moon of 2012.

Prince William, Britain's future king, has taken up the cause elephants and rhinos, who are being poached to extinction in Africa.

There is nothing like enjoying the fruits of your labor, literally! The seeds you just planted turn out as little shoots and flowers until they grow into bulbs and finally young little things waiting for their weaning.

Health concerns over tobacco use have hurt tobacco farmers-the number of farms growing tobacco in the United States dropped from 512,000 in 1954 to 56,977 in 2002.

More and more couples are saving money and giving a boost to small businesses by having local food trucks cater their big day.

If you have awful associations with the word potpourri, you're not alone. I have memories of Nana's house smelling like dried rose petals and anise. I swore I would never make my own potpourri, and my house would never smell like Nana's!

When a person gets a sudden headache after indulging in cold desserts, such as ice cream, everyone would say it is only “brain freeze” and it will soon pass. Now Harvard scientists have looked deeper and found an explanation, Daily Mail reported.

An adult white killer whale, otherwise known as white orca, has been spotted for the first time during a research cruise by a group of Russian scientists and students.

A music teacher has found a way for New Zealand teen Julian McLaren to find an activity that would relax him in a world that usually seemed strange and enable him to sit in harmony with other kids, Kapi-Mana News reports.

Robots could soon assume the role of miners but they will not be harvesting minerals from the depths of the earth, instead they will be transported into space, where they will be deployed to explore the hundreds of asteroids that regularly pass near our planet.

Flag carrier Qantas is on an apparent collision course with the New South Wales (NSW) government insofar as the construction of a second Sydney airport is concerned.

Actor Mickey Rourke is well known for his love of dogs. He was reportedly heartbroken over the loss of Loki, his Chihuahua, three years ago.

Attention Earth Day shoppers: The most highly anticipated, wildly expensive energy-saving light bulb out there, the L Prize-winning winning 60-watt equivalent LED from Philips, will hit store shelves this Sunday.

A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists examines an electric vehicle’s total greenhouse gas emissions.

Australia's carbon dioxide emissions went up in 2011 due to more vehicle use and gases that leaked from coalmines. It resulted in the release of 546 million tonnes of more C02 from those two sources. The data came from Australia's report of the National Greenhouse Accounts to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

To address the high cost of aviation fuel, flag carrier Qantas is experimenting with the use of refined cooking oil to power its jets.

A Qantas flight between Sydney and Adelaide today is using a 50-50 mix of conventional fuel and refined cooking oil. The biofuel costs far more than conventional fuel, partly due to its importation from the United States.

Plans for conserving Australian species rely on successfully collaborating across regions and across jurisdictions. It makes sense: species don't recognise state or local government boundaries. But at the same time, funding for conservation is premised on competing, not cooperating. How can these collaborative approaches succeed without secure and stable financial support?

Men are more inclined than women to spend 30 minutes in exercise daily, MyHealthNewsDaily reports. Women spent an average of 18 minutes a day for moderate-to-vigorous exercise, while men spent 30 minutes a day for moderate-to-vigorous exercise, a new U.S. study shows.

Everyday laundry and cleaning tasks are some of the worst offenders when it comes to 'greening' your home. We all know what the main culprits are, but there are plenty of little things you can do to make a difference and save money too...