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Steve Jobs is dead. The Apple chairman and former CEO who made personal computers, smartphones, tablets, and digital animation mass-market products passed away today. We’re going to miss him. Deeply, and personally. Steven P. Jobs passed away on October 5, 2011 after a long struggle with pancreatic cancer. He was just 56 years old. We [...]
Saudi King Abdullah revoked a sentence of 10 lashes against a woman who broke a ban on women driving in the kingdom, a Saudi princess said yesterday on her Twitter account. “Thank God, the lashing of Sheima is cancelled,” Princess Amira al-Taweel, wife of billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, wrote on Twitter. “Thanks to [...]
Euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke has applied to access banned drug Nembutal on behalf of six terminally ill patients who want to use it as a sedative. A barbiturate, Nembutal is manufactured in the US, and was available for sale in Australia during the 1950s as a sleeping tablet. It is the premier euthanasia drug used [...]
Bodies littered the streets of Hama on Sunday as the Syrian army launched major tank offensives across the country in a fresh bid to crush the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. President Barack Obama said he was “appalled” by the raids and issued his most severe condemnation yet of Mr Assad, saying he would continue [...]
Minister Stephen Conroy says internet prices will fall as major service providers begin offering services on the National Broadband Network. Mr Conroy rebuffed suggestions the network would be too expensive for everyday users as he switched on the network today for 2000 households at Kiama, on the NSW south coast. Internet service provider Internode last [...]
Melbourne has been rocked by a series of tremors that shook the ground for about 10 to 15 seconds. Follow our live coverage. 4.4 magnitude earthquake hits Victoria Ground shakes for 10-15 seconds Geoscience Australia website crashed Geoscience Australia estimates the earthquake “could have been felt by people up to 93km away” and “could have [...]
Defence Force chiefs have announced the death of another soldier in Afghanistan. As well, one other soldier was seriously wounded in a separate incident during the same operation. Twenty-eight Australian soldiers have now died in Afghanistan since Australia’s engagement there. Sergeant Langley was involved in a joint Australian-Afghanistan National Army operation in southern Afghanistan when [...]
More than 1000 people are to lose their jobs as outdoors clothing chain Colorado, battered by debt and grim trading conditions, becomes the latest retailer to shut its doors. A going-out-of-business sale will empty Colorado’s 109 shopfronts across Australia and New Zealand within five weeks, slashing by one-third the size of the chain’s parent company, [...]
Prime Minister Julia Gillard says the tragic death of a young man planking should serve as a warning to anyone attempting the internet craze. Acton Beale, 20, plunged seven storeys to his death from an inner-city Brisbane apartment block in the early hours of Sunday morning. Police said alcohol was involved, warning of the dangers [...]
WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPHS OF DEATH AND INJURY BELOW Just released. Photographs acquired by Reuters and taken about an hour after the U.S. assault on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad in Pakistan show three dead men lying in pools of blood, but no weapons. The photos, taken by a Pakistani security official who entered the [...]
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