The flash flood that hit Sydney on Monday afternoon has killed a man while two others were rushed to the hospital after being struck by lightning.
A group of 20 researchers continued to hunt on Sunday for the meteorite believed to have fallen in the fields of St. Thomas in Ontario, Canada.
Environment Minister Greg Hunt violates Australia’s World Heritage Obligations court hears
Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 remains a mystery for the world. International search and rescue operation continues to delve into the search zone of MH370 to locate the missing Boeing 777. The plane vanished on March 8, 2014 and even after 15 days of search efforts it continues to be missing. The latest update is that a French satellite has spotted some floating objects in the southern areas of Indian Ocean which are said to be 'potential objects' of the MH370 flight.
In a poignant display of love between a zoo keeper and animals, a photo of a giraffe kissing the terminally ill zoo employee has gone viral.
Jack Purcell, a Chevron Island resident, noticed a multi-coloured UFO floating over the city of Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia last Thursday night, March 13. The witness captured a video footage of the UFO sighting experience and shared it on YouTube for others to see the colourful UFO looking like an alien spacecraft moving across the sky.
Victoria will start this month, March, a two-year trial of commercial processing of kangaroo for its meat, the state government announced on Wednesday. The push for kangaroo meat sparked outrage from the animal welfare lobby and the Greens.
A United Nations report has warned that climate change will force millions of people to relocate triggering famine, inciting conflict and losing trillions of dollars-worth of economic gains.
New interesting dinosaur discovery is making its way through headlines. Scientists discovered a new dinosaur with the scientific name "Anzu Wyliei," nicknamed "Chicken from Hell" because of its bird-like appearance, which had lived in western North America during the Cretaceous period 66 million years ago.
A defect in the water filtering system at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant had forced operator Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) to suspend yet again its decontamination process at the facility.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 search has entered day 12, and it still continues to puzzle experts. Now more than 26 countries are scouring the oceans and more than 3 million Internet users are rummaging satellite images on a map service. Recent update denies sightings of missing Boeing 777 in Maldives as declared by the Malaysian government. Meanwhile, a new report claims that a student from Taiwan has spotted the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 while searching through satellite images.
If there are female baby makers who rent their wombs for nine months to create a child which is given to another woman, often with fertility problem, to raise the infant as her own, in Germany there is a man who offers insemination service, but for free.
On March 19 and 20, sky gazers will be able to view the huge Asteroid 163 Erigone’s really quick eclipse on the bright star Regulus in the Leo constellation. The celestial event offers the rare viewing experience for those across the northeastern North America and the citizen scientists are asked to help in tracking the occultation event.
People in Canada saw a bright source of light in the sky that looked like a fireball. It happened in Maritime province.
John Wolfson, the 27-year-old surfer and bodyboarder who collided against a dolphin on Monday, his birthday, is not blaming the mammal for the water sports accident.
Greenland's ice sheet is rapidly melting and no longer stable. According to a new study, the rise in sea levels will begin to accelerate because of Greenland's thinning ice sheet. Scientists have already known that Greenland's ice sheet has been melting for decades. However, this was the first time that they've discovered that the melting is also happening in the northern region of the world's second biggest ice sheet. The findings revealed that the ice loss in Greenland's nor...
New Zealand's moas were flightless birds that ruled over the country until the first human settlement arrived. The biggest of the moas had a height of 12 feet with an outstretched neck. The entire moa population composed of nine species had disappeared shortly after the arrival of the first humans in New Zealand in the thirteenth century.
A large cigar-shaped UFO was spotted over the city of Korosten in Ukraine. The captured video on March 6 has surfaced on the Internet. The video got published on March 7, in the YouTube channel O7TV showing the UFO sighting of a large, elongated object gliding in the sky.
A 27-year-old Australian surfer hit a dolphin while riding a wave at Bawley Point on the south coast of New South Wales. The accident site is about 250 kilometres south of Sydney.
The skull of an ocean lion believed to be two million years old as well as fossils of saber-tooth cats has been unearthed by an exploratory excavation team that's part of preparations for constructing Los Angeles' new subway extension.
The Brazilian astronomers have announced their discovery of a new and very bright comet called C/2014 E2 (Jacques) with the use of the SONEAR (Southern Observatory for Near Earth Asteroids Research) close to Oliveira, Brazil. On Thursday, March 13, Cristovao Jacques, E. Pimentel and J. Barros detected their second comet through the CCD images captured with a a 0.45-meter (17.7-inch) wide-field reflector at the SONEAR observatory.
A diamond found in Brazil had led scientists to announce that an ocean's worth of water could possibility be located beneath the planet Earth's crust.
Cyclone Lusi was just all wind and howl. But no rain, to the frustration of New Zealand farmers who badly it need for their crops.
Crop yields in temperate and tropical regions stand to slow down in the face of global warming, even at just a rise of 2°C, a study showed.
Snakes in Australia are apparently a hungry lot. A week after a snake in Queensland swallowed a crocodile, a python in New South Wales ate on Wednesday night a Chihuahua-Maltese pet dog.
In Arizona, an unnamed witness filed a report in the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database about a UFO sighting in Sahuarita that happened on Wednesday, March 12. The witness recounted in the report that a “glowing vertical cylinder” appeared at about 6:05 am with rays of light coming from the unidentified flying object.
The world's first IVF shark was successfully hatched in Australia's Melbourne Aquarium. Australian veterinary staff and aquarists have made history with the birth of the first shark born via artificial insemination. Scientists hope that the IVF success can be used to help breed endangered species.According to Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium, the first IVF shark was born on March 3. The artificial insemination process of breeding a brown branded bamboo shark began in September 2013 when aquaris...
The European Space Agency (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft officially returned from its 31-month hibernation last January to resume its comet-chasing mission. Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko recently re-surfaced from the behind the Sun and the European Southern Observatory (ESO) released the first image captured on Rosetta’s target comet.
A late season winter storm has caused delayed flights and road closures in several parts of Canada. Several colleges and universities have also suspended classes.
More than 4,000 claimants from around the world have filed a class action lawsuit against nuclear suppliers General Electric, Toshiba and Hitachi over the 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown.
