Prime Minister Julia Gillard participated in the end of the world celebrations of Triple J’s breakfast show when she appeared in a short yet funny video. PM Gillard managed to take time out from her busy preparations for the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) standoff on Friday and filmed the video clip on Tuesday in Melbourne.
When Telstra customer Rayden Crawley lost his mobile phone, he immediately told the telecommunications network to terminate his account. However, Crawley needed to grab hold of something when he was informed about a deducted $28,000 worth of phone bill from his credit card for calls that he did not make.
Does your husband or boyfriend have the classic masculine features such as a wide, angular jaw, a square chin and prominent brow? According to Australian researchers, males with these features are likely cheaters on their marriages or relationships.
Another indicator of how technology has changed the habits of people, loo habits included, is that instead of reading newspapers or magazines while seated on the toilet bowl, young Americans are tweeting.
NASA and the United States Government assured that the world will not end on December 21 despite the Mayan calendar prediction of an apocalypse. According to NASA, the doomsday rumor is based on the false impression of the Mayan calendar. A lot of people wrongly assume that the world will come to an end on December 21 because the Mayan calendar ends on that day. In reality, it just marks the beginning of a new cycle.
Australian customers are starting to question Telstra’s network capability after experiencing poor 3G network performance mainly in the south-west. The telecommunications supplier Telstra confirmed that its network is indeed congested at the central business district in Melbourne.
The long-running Voyager 1 Spacecraft of NASA reportedly entered a new layer of the solar system where scientists are unaware of. NASA scientists have now named this area “Magnetic Highway” and further claimed it is the final stop before the interstellar space. The astounding scientific discovery was made known to the public on Monday at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco, California.
Students at St Thomas More College at Sunnybank in Brisbane are mourning the death of one of their own. Seventeen-year-old Harrison Kadell died of drowning in a resort pool in Fiji. Here are eight of the things we learned from the news round-up.
UFO sighting reports persist despite the lack of guaranteed answers from experts - whether in aviation or general science. For the eager UFO observers, there will be a time for clear answers in the future. Meantime, they will photograph and film seemingly strange and unidentified flying objects in the hopes of capturing the image that would disclose, once and for all, the presence of extraterrestrial spacecrafts within Earth territory.
NASA scientists claim they have discovered approximately 1 trillion tons of ice inside the craters near planet Mercury’s Northern pole. The team of scientists also stated that further analysis of the material can expose more information about the building blocks of life on other planets. The astounding discovery came after eight long years since NASA’s Messenger spacecraft launch in 2004.
With the holiday season fast approaching, a lot of people will surely include one these famous smart phones on their wish list: Nokia Lumia 920, Apple’s iPhone 5 or Samsung Galaxy S3. Which one is your Christmas choice?
Do aliens walk among us? Every now and then, there are paranormal "proofs" being disproved. And there are those that linger to the curious mind. Watch the accompanying video to see where you might categorize this alleged alien sighting.
Possibly to counter the growing global trend for young women to dress and look like the iconic Barbie doll, a UK toy company released in Australia Lottie, a doll whose physical proportion resembles that of girls who play with these dolls
Temperature in Brisbane, Australia is predicted to reach a scorching 39 degrees Celsius on Tuesday which is 10 degrees higher than the average heat in December.
The United Nations Weather Agency confirmed that a portion of the Arctic Ice melted with a size area larger than the United States. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) also stated at the climate talks in Doha that the 2012 Arctic ice melt is one of the numerous weather events to occur on planet Earth.
Before the computer age, viral was a term used to describe an infection caused by a virus. It was considered a scientific and medical term. Using the same principle of quick and widespread reach, people now refer to videos that are rapidly disseminated and spread via electronic communications as viral.
Environmentalists are against the decision of Australia’s chemical regulator to continue the use of Diuron. WWF (World Wildlife Fund) declared the toxic pesticide could destroy the Great Barrier Reef and put the health of residents at risk if not completely banned.
With the use of UT-Austin’s McDonald Observatory Hobby-Eberly Telescope, a team of astronomers found a massive black hole in a galaxy 220 million light years away. The discovery is part of the team’s ongoing research on the remarkable black hole’s formation and interaction with their galaxy.
A Facebook community page called "Theories of the deep understanding of things" tested the social network's ability to discern which images are considered "indecent material" under its terms of service. The result showed Facebook can definitely make mistakes in classifying certain images as indecent.
A UFO mass sighting was reported Tuesday at the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). The witnesses were at Scottsdale, in Maricopa County, Arizona when they saw the strange-looking light hovering outside their home.
Sydney could experience a warmer day than usual with temperatures rising to as high as 31 degrees this Friday, according to meteorologists. Yet this is not the worst. Weather could still get even warmer by Saturday.
A scary prank has gone viral within days after its footage was uploaded to YouTube. Brazilian variety show "Programa Silvio Santos" pulled the elevator prank, which starts the minute its targets walk into the building.
The LG-made smart phone Google Nexus 4 is currently facing the dilemma of low supply and high demand. As a consequence, LG Nexus 4 price is more expensive compared to Samsung Galaxy S3 that is easily obtainable worldwide.
A 17-year-old male from southern Tasmania was found dead at his home after drinking tea made from poppy heads. An inspector suspects the young man brewed an unregulated amount of poppy heads.
A huge crop circle was photographed on Lachlan Valley in New South Wales on November 23. The photo was taken ten days after the occurrence of the total solar eclipse that Australians and tourists witnessed in Cairns. See for yourself and understand how a web site linked the crop circle to the eclipse.
An anaconda may have had a meal too heavy, making it vomit a relatively big animal's undigested remains in a Brazil river. The horrific scene was captured on film. Now there is an ongoing debate in the comments section whether the heavy meal was a cow, a calf, a capybara or a deer.
NASA and the Russian Federal Space Agency chose veteran astronauts Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko to embark on a one-year mission aboard the International Space Station in 2015. The longest space flight mission that will launch on spring 2015 from Kazakhstan will gather important scientific data for the future human exploration on the solar system.
NASA scientists captured images of near-Earth Asteroid 2007 PA8 with the Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California between October 31 and November 13, 2012. NASA described the asteroid in the released images as an irregularly shaped and stretched-out object with ridges and craters.
About two weeks after its United States launch, the Nintendo Wii U will entice Australians on November 30 as the gadget finally hits the stores with a price of $349.95. A deluxe version of the latest gaming console, with added features like 32GB memory, a charging stand and the “Nintendo Land” game, will also go on sale in Australia for $429.95.
You see a strange looking cloud in the sky, you definitely take a photo. For the more serious observers, they fix some high tech cameras and patiently wait for something strange to happen. And then they film their strange sightings. These things happened in Florida in the U.S. and in Sydney, Australia, recently.
