Melbourne, June 9 : Some of Australia's biggest celebrities have told US animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to back off in its campaign to boycott wool from mule

Melbourne, June 9 : Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd today announced his plan to establish an international commission on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, and said that India would no

Melbourne, June 9: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, the first Western leader to visit Hiroshima after it was destroyed by an atomic bomb in 1945, has called for an end to nuclear weapons.

“Hiroshima should cause the world community to resolve afresh that all humankind must exert their every effort for peace in this 21st century,”' Rudd said.

“We, the people of the Asia-Pacific region, should resolve afresh to make this Asia-Pacific century a century of peace and, for the world at large, that we should aspire now for a world free of nuclear weapons,” he added.

Canberra, June 9 : NASA has created a virtual spokesperson for the Phoenix mission to Mars, who would keep the public up to date with the latest Martian probe.

Melbourne, June 9: Two separate researcher groups in Australia may be on the verge of obtaining the first licences to clone human embryos.

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