Melbourne, Sept 24: Three station workers and three backpackers were left stunned after they spotted strange lights flying over a remote station in the Northern Territory outback.
According to reports, Ray Aylett, Normie Hooker and Alan "Doc" McIntosh witnessed the bright light while they were sitting on their pergola at Muckaty Station with three European backpackers.
Aylett, 58, said that all of them were left stunned with the bizarre sighting.
"This strange light was coming straight for us, over the house," News. com. au quoted him, as saying.
Sydney - Australia might issue a patent to a South Korean scientist who falsely claimed to have cloned human embryos, news reports said Wednesday.
National patent agency IP Australia confirmed to the Sydney Morning Herald that it was reviewing a patent application from Hwang Woo Suk, formerly of Seoul National University, for his disputed technology on cloning human embryos.
Hwang was once hailed as a national hero in South Korea before being embroiled in a scandal over falsified data on 2004 and 2005 studies in which he not only claimed to have cloned human stem cells but also to have developed patient-specific stem cells.
Melbourne, Sept 24: A television news anchor who looks like Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin has revealed that she''s been getting ‘hate mail and nasty phone calls’ from viewers who think she''s trying to copy her signature style.
Cindy Michaels at WVII-TV in Maine has long brown hair that she sometimes wears up in a style similar to the Alaska governor, and she also wears glasses occasionally.
Sydney, Sep 24: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has had to defend claims that he acted like a “magpie” by stealing lines from his Australian counterpart Kevin Rudd in a key speech on Tuesday.
Brown’s address to the Labour Party Conference in Manchester was widely received as being one of his finest, attacking both opposition leader David Cameron and possible challengers for the leadership within his own party, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.
Sydney - It sounds like a question on an intelligence test: Why do today's car thieves target older vehicles with a resale value of just a few thousand dollars rather than ones that have that new car smell?
Figures from Australia show that they do. Three-quarters of stolen vehicles are over nine years old. Police reckon a car built in the 1970s is eight times more likely to disappear than the average vehicle.
RACV Insurance general manager Susan Allen said cars insured for less than 6,000 Australian dollars (5,000 US dollars) accounted for more than half of theft claims. Vehicles less than three years old accounted for only 4.5 per cent of claims.
Melbourne, Sept 23 : Aussies have come up with a unique way to fight their day-to-day demons – voodoo.
According to tourism officials, Australian visitors to African countries are increasingly turning to voodoo - even if they sometimes won''t admit it - as a way to beat problems they think western-style experts can''t solve.
Some countries have even turned voodoo into a tourist attraction.
"Westerners are increasingly interested in voodoo," theage. com. au quoted Jacob Limikpo, president of the fetish market in Lome, capital of the West African nation of Togo, as saying.
"I think it''s part of a growing fascination with the supernatural,” Jacob said.
Melbourne, Sept 24: Three station workers and three backpackers were left stunned after they spotted strange lights flying over a remote station in the Northern Territory outback.
A television news anchor who looks like Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin has revealed that she''s been getting ‘hate mail and nasty phone calls’ from viewers who think she''s trying to copy her signature style.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has had to defend claims that he acted like a “magpie” by stealing lines from his Australian counterpart Kevin Rudd in a key speech on Tuesday.
