US economy contracts in Q1 '25    Golf Festival in Cairo to mark Arab Golf Federation's 50th anniversary    EGP closes high vs. USD on Wednesday    Germany's regional inflation ticks up in April    Taiwan GDP surges on tech demand    Germany among EU's priciest labour markets – official data    UNFPA Egypt, Bayer sign agreement to promote reproductive health    Egypt to boost marine protection with new tech partnership    Eygpt's El-Sherbiny directs new cities to brace for adverse weather    CBE governor meets Beijing delegation to discuss economic, financial cooperation    Egypt's investment authority GAFI hosts forum with China to link business, innovation leaders    Cabinet approves establishment of national medical tourism council to boost healthcare sector    Egypt's Gypto Pharma, US Dawa Pharmaceuticals sign strategic alliance    Egypt's Foreign Minister calls new Somali counterpart, reaffirms support    "5,000 Years of Civilizational Dialogue" theme for Korea-Egypt 30th anniversary event    Egypt's Al-Sisi, Angola's Lourenço discuss ties, African security in Cairo talks    Egypt's Al-Mashat urges lower borrowing costs, more debt swaps at UN forum    Two new recycling projects launched in Egypt with EGP 1.7bn investment    Egypt's ambassador to Palestine congratulates Al-Sheikh on new senior state role    Egypt pleads before ICJ over Israel's obligations in occupied Palestine    Sudan conflict, bilateral ties dominate talks between Al-Sisi, Al-Burhan in Cairo    Cairo's Madinaty and Katameya Dunes Golf Courses set to host 2025 Pan Arab Golf Championship from May 7-10    Egypt's Ministry of Health launches trachoma elimination campaign in 7 governorates    EHA explores strategic partnership with Türkiye's Modest Group    Between Women Filmmakers' Caravan opens 5th round of Film Consultancy Programme for Arab filmmakers    Fourth Cairo Photo Week set for May, expanding across 14 Downtown locations    Egypt's PM follows up on Julius Nyerere dam project in Tanzania    Ancient military commander's tomb unearthed in Ismailia    Egypt's FM inspects Julius Nyerere Dam project in Tanzania    Egypt's FM praises ties with Tanzania    Egypt to host global celebration for Grand Egyptian Museum opening on July 3    Ancient Egyptian royal tomb unearthed in Sohag    Egypt hosts World Aquatics Open Water Swimming World Cup in Somabay for 3rd consecutive year    Egyptian Minister praises Nile Basin consultations, voices GERD concerns    Paris Olympic gold '24 medals hit record value    A minute of silence for Egyptian sports    Russia says it's in sync with US, China, Pakistan on Taliban    It's a bit frustrating to draw at home: Real Madrid keeper after Villarreal game    Shoukry reviews with Guterres Egypt's efforts to achieve SDGs, promote human rights    Sudan says countries must cooperate on vaccines    Johnson & Johnson: Second shot boosts antibodies and protection against COVID-19    Egypt to tax bloggers, YouTubers    Egypt's FM asserts importance of stability in Libya, holding elections as scheduled    We mustn't lose touch: Muller after Bayern win in Bundesliga    Egypt records 36 new deaths from Covid-19, highest since mid June    Egypt sells $3 bln US-dollar dominated eurobonds    Gamal Hanafy's ceramic exhibition at Gezira Arts Centre is a must go    Italian Institute Director Davide Scalmani presents activities of the Cairo Institute for ITALIANA.IT platform    

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Apple offers iPad refunds over “misleading” ads in Australia
Sydney (dpa) – Apple Inc offered refunds Wednesday to customers in Australia who thought their new iPad was compatible with the superfast 4G network offered by dominant local carrier Telstra Corp. The offer came after Australia's consumer (...)

28 - 03 - 2012
Australia defends banning Chinese web provider over hacking fears
Sydney (dpa) – Australian officials Wednesday defended a decision to bar Chinese telecommunications company Huawei Technologies Co Ltd from bidding on national broadband network contracts. China's biggest private company was sidelined over (...)

28 - 03 - 2012
Australia's consumer watchdog alleges iPad customers were duped
Sydney (dpa) – Australia's consumer watchdog Tuesday threatened legal action against Apple Inc for advertising its new iPad as being 4G capable, even though it is not compatible with Australia's 4G network. The Australian Competition and Consumer (...)

27 - 03 - 2012
Rio Tinto puts diamond mines on the market
Sydney (dpa) – Rio Tinto Ltd on Tuesday hung a For Sale sign on its diamond mining interests in Australia, Zimbabwe, Canada and India. “We have a valuable, high-quality diamonds business, but given its scale we are reviewing whether we can create (...)

27 - 03 - 2012
Brown Australia urged to go green to keep up
Sydney (dpa) – Relying on mining for income and coal for power is keeping Australia from reshaping its high-emissions economy to prosper in a carbon-constrained world, the head of an environmental lobbying group said Wednesday. John Connor's (...)

21 - 03 - 2012
Australia pledges answers to Brazilian student's death
Sydney (dpa) – Australia on Wednesday promised to investigate the death of a Brazilian student on a Sydney street after police used a Taser gun to subdue him. Police said 21-year-old Roberto Laudisio Curti was resisting arrest early Sunday when (...)

21 - 03 - 2012
Australian volunteer fireman found guilty of 10 arson deaths
Sydney (dpa) – A former volunteer fireman in Australia was found guilty Tuesday in the deaths of 10 people in an arson timed to make the most of bushfire conditions described at the time as “catastrophic.” The blaze set by Brendan Sokaluk, 42, on (...)

20 - 03 - 2012
Tropical storm lashes northern Australia
Sydney (dpa) – A town in northern Australia was declared a disaster zone Tuesday after a tropical storm left 60 buildings damaged but no one seriously injured. Dozens of roofs were torn off, cars flipped over, power lines brought down and trees (...)

20 - 03 - 2012
Peaceful East Timor poll to hasten exit of Australian troops
Sydney (dpa) – East Timor's peaceful presidential election hastens the day Australia will withdraw its troops from the tiny half-island nation on its doorstep, Defense Minister Stephen Smith said Monday. The weekend's first round of balloting (...)

19 - 03 - 2012
East Timorese vote for a new president
Sydney (dpa) – East Timorese cast votes Saturday in a presidential election that will indicate whether the Fretilin party has the power to take back government in parliamentary elections later in June. Incumbent Jose Ramos-Horta has been (...)

17 - 03 - 2012
Julian Assange to enter Australian politics
Sydney (dpa) – Wikileaks founder Julian Assange plans to run for a seat in the Australian Senate, the organization announced Saturday, despite his legal battle to avoid extradition to Sweden where he faces sexual assault allegations. “We have (...)

17 - 03 - 2012
Australia's richest family squabble over their riches
Sydney (dpa) – The Chinese have a saying: the first generation creates wealth, the second looks after it and the third loses it. Gina Rinehart, only child of legendary iron ore prospector Lang Hancock, worries about that third-generation curse (...)

13 - 03 - 2012
South Africa ahead in race to host giant space telescope
SYDNEY (dpa): Australian officials were unavailable for comment Saturday on a press report that South Africa is the favorite to host the world's largest radio telescope. Australian and South Africa are bidding for the 2-billion-dollar Square (...)

10 - 03 - 2012
Australia's flood crisis flows on
Sydney (dpa) – Volunteers filled sandbags and raised levees Wednesday as floodwaters up to 4-kilometres wide rolled down south-east Australia's Murray-Darling river system, picking off town after town in their progress towards south-coast (...)

07 - 03 - 2012
Families flee as floods swamp southeast Australia
Sydney (dpa) – More than 8,000 residents were ordered to evacuate as the Murrumbidgee River that flows through Wagga Wagga inched towards a level not seen in 159 years. A week of record-breaking rain in Australia's south east has seen floodwaters (...)

06 - 03 - 2012
Monster algal bloom spotted in Antarctica
Sydney (dpa) – Snow blown into the Antarctic Ocean from the frozen continent has triggered an algal bloom so large and so vividly green it can be seen from space, media reports said Monday. The bloom, captured by Australian scientists monitoring (...)

05 - 03 - 2012
Muslim women in Australia obliged to face up to the law
Sydney (dpa) – Witnesses to legal documents will have to see the face of the signatory under changes to make sure Muslim women cannot fool Australia's justice system when undergoing identity checks, officials said Monday. The new rules were drawn (...)

05 - 03 - 2012
Australian dingo death case gets another airing
Sydney (dpa) – A feature film, an opera and now a fourth inquest: Australians don't tire of the 1980 “the dingo took my baby” case, which led to the jailing, release and subsequent exoneration of the vanished infant's mother. There was no word (...)

22 - 02 - 2012
Syria's Australian embassy trashed, protestors march in Sydney
Sydney (dpa) – The Syrian embassy in Canberra was trashed and demonstrators marched Sunday in Sydney to protest vetoes by Russia and China of a UN Security Council resolution urging President Bashar al-Assad to stand down. The embassy was one of (...)

05 - 02 - 2012
Elephants could be Australia's giant weed killers, scientist says
Sydney (dpa) – An Australian academic was ridiculed Thursday for proposing that elephants could keep down the weeds that are taking over the savannah in the far north of the continent. Botanist David Bowman proposed that bringing in elephants (...)

02 - 02 - 2012
Australian schoolgirl becomes YouTube sensation for animal love
Sydney (dpa) – An 8-year-old Brisbane schoolgirl's innocent world of backyard bliss has been turned upside down after her heavy metal song about loving her pets went viral on YouTube and sold up a storm on iTunes. Australians were undecided (...)

23 - 01 - 2012
Japan to free Sea Shepherd activists who boarded whaling ship
Sydney (dpa) – Australian officials said Tuesday that Japan would release three anti-whaling activists detained after they boarded a whaling ship off the west coast at the weekend. “We are pleased that the Japanese government has made a decision (...)

10 - 01 - 2012
Australian tourist lives to tell of mighty bungee fall in Africa
Sydney (dpa) – An Australian backpacker is lucky to be alive after her bungee cord snapped when she jumped from a bridge to the Zambezi River 111 metres below, in southern Africa, news reports said Monday. Erin Langworthy told Australia's Channel (...)

09 - 01 - 2012
Qantas passengers injured by turbulence
Sydney (dpa) – Australia's Qantas Airways said Sunday that turbulence aboard a flight from London to Sydney injured seven passengers. The Airbus A380 hit storms over India and was delayed in Singapore while the passengers were treated for cuts (...)

08 - 01 - 2012
Sea Shepherd boards Japanese whaling ship
Sydney (dpa) – Three Australian anti-whaling activists slipped aboard a Japanese harpoon vessel and were being held there against their will, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said Sunday. Sea Shepherd assisted the trio from fellow (...)

08 - 01 - 2012
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