U.S. Calls Assange 'Enemy Of State'
The U.S. military has designated Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as enemies of the United States - the same legal category as the al-Qaeda terrorist network and the Taliban insurgency.
View ArticleCompany Takes On Google With Augmented Reality Glasses
The next computing battleground could be on your head, with an Australian company taking on giants like Google and Microsoft with wearable computers in the form of glasses that appear to be straight...
View ArticleIce Traps Killer Whales In Canada
A dozen killer whales are trapped under a vast stretch of sea ice in northern Canada, while officials try to work out a way to free them.
View ArticleThe Story Of Prisoner X
Ben Zygier was a zealot. Intelligent, restless, he dreamt of working for Mossad. His dream ultimately killed him.
View ArticleGiant, Fluorescent Pink Slugs Are Real, Will Haunt Your Dreams
High in the mists that shroud Mount Kaputar, near Narrabri in north-western NSW, scientists have discovered a secret world. By day it is an isolated pocket of snow gums, wrapped in straggling native...
View ArticleSurfer Knocked Unconscious By Whale's Tail
Bishan Rajapakse, a 38-year-old doctor from Bondi, was knocked unconscious for 10 seconds when he was struck by a whale, thought to be a southern right, while surfing at Bondi Beach on Sunday morning.
View ArticleThe Flight From Hell
Twenty-six passengers on a Qantas flight from Santiago to Sydney were struck down with a gastro intestinal illness midflight on Thursday, resulting in a mass vomiting and diarrhoea episode.
View ArticleA Firenado May Hit Australia
The unique weather phenomenon - also called a pyrocumulus - occurs when a large fire is coupled with an unstable atmosphere.
View ArticleLeonardo Da Vinci's Wacky Piano Is Heard For The First Time
A bizarre instrument combining a piano and cello has finally been played to an audience more than 500 years after it was dreamt up Leonardo da Vinci.
View ArticleMan Who Introduced 'Heartbleed' Flaw Denies He Did It Deliberately
The German software developer who introduced a security flaw into an encryption protocol used by millions of website globally says he did not insert it deliberately as some have suggested.
View ArticleOver 100 Top AIDS Researchers Were Aboard Malaysian Flight 17
Over 100 of the 298 people killed in the Malaysia Airlines crash were heading to Melbourne for a major AIDS conference, conference attendees have been told.
View ArticleAustralian Morning Show Host Wears Same Suit For A Year, No One Notices
Angered by the sexism he saw being heaped upon his female colleagues – and attempts to downplay it – Karl Stefanovic decided to conduct an experiment.
View ArticleLive Updates On The Hostage Crisis In Sydney
Sydney's CBD is in lockdown as police negotiate with a gunman who stormed into the busy Lindt Chocolat Cafe in Martin Place on Monday morning and took customers and staff hostage.
View ArticleRoman Polanski To Attend Polish Extradition Hearing Decades After Child Sex...
Filmmaker Roman Polanski will attend a court hearing in Poland next week that will consider a U.S. extradition request over a 1977 child sex crime conviction, his lawyer said on Tuesday.
View ArticleStudy About Butter, Funded By Butter Industry, Finds That Butter Is Bad For You
"It's very rare for an industry-funded study to find something that goes against the interests of that industry."
View ArticlePhotographer Sells Photo Of Potato For $1.5 Million
Portrait photographer Kevin Abosch had dinner with an unnamed European businessman. The businessman saw the photo of the potato, had four glasses of wine, and decided he wanted it.
View ArticleCan Hobbits Save New Zealand's Troubled Dairy Farmers?
As plunging milk prices push dairy farms into the red and hurt rural businesses, some farmers are making more money from accommodating tourists than from milking cows.
View ArticleA New Weapon In The Fight Against Superbugs? Tasmanian Devil Milk
Australian researchers have discovered that peptides contained in the milk of Tasmanian devils can kill some of the most deadly bacterial and fungal infections, including golden staph.
View ArticleWhy The West Is Blind To Russia's Propaganda Today
Careful meddling from the outside can cause domestic conversations to skew toward extremes, seeking to corrode the broad middle area of agreement needed for the functioning of liberal democracies,...
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