Australasia
Colossal squid goes under the knife in New Zealand
The sight of an enormous, tentacled creature splayed out on an operating table may seem like the stuff of science fiction, but for scientists in New Zealand tomorrow it will just be another day at the office.
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Five killed as Sydney boats collide
Thursday, 1 May 2008
An overloaded cabin cruiser on a night-time joyride in Sydney's famous harbour collided with a fishing trawler, killing five young people and injuring nine.
Storm over Australia's real-life Mean Girls
Sunday, 27 April 2008
Australia's Mean Girls proved last week they could rival the malice of the US film of that name when female students at an exclusive Catholic college in Queensland were castigated for behaviour worthy of Lindsey Lohan at her worst.
'Recipe book' holds the clue to Phar Lap's death
Friday, 25 April 2008
The riddle of the mysterious death of Australia's most famous racehorse may have been solved more than 75 years after his death.
Jakarta torch relay is scaled down as Canberra puts up wall of steel
Wednesday, 23 April 2008
In the latest stage of the Olympic torch's fraught progress around the world, it has been paraded through a heavily guarded sports stadium in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, in front of 5,000 invited guests, mainly children.
Australia becomes a whole lot bigger after UN ruling
Tuesday, 22 April 2008
Australia, already the world's largest island, has just become substantially larger. A United Nations commission has ruled that the country can expand its continental shelf by nearly a million square miles.
Aboriginal stolen children 'were used in leprosy tests'
Thursday, 17 April 2008
The Australian government has launched an investigation into claims that aboriginal children seized from their parents during the 1920s and 1930s were secretly used as guinea pigs for leprosy treatments.
New Zealand flash flood kills six pupils
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
Six high school pupils and their teacher were swept to their deaths in a freak flash flood at a wilderness gorge in New Zealand.
Boy tells how he tried to save friend killed by shark
Wednesday, 9 April 2008
An Australian schoolboy braved bloodied seas yesterday to try to save his friend who had been mauled by a shark off a popular beach while the pair were bodyboarding.
Shark kills boy off Australian coast
Tuesday, 8 April 2008
A shark attacked and killed a 16-year-old boy today while he and a friend were bodyboarding off Australia's eastern coast, officials said.
Assault with a prickly weapon
Monday, 7 April 2008
A New Zealand man has been accused of assaulting a boy by throwing a hedgehog at him.
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