Tourist fights with spark plugs from crocodile
May 18, 2016 11:39A 72-year-old holidaymaker has in Australia using spark plugs and a wrench a crocodile kept at bay.
A 72-year-old holidaymaker has in Australia using spark plugs and a wrench a crocodile kept at bay.
YouTube Red was first available outside the United States. The payment service Wednesday (local time) launched in Australia and New Zealand. It is not yet known when Red, to be a competitor of Netflix coming to the Netherlands.
Twitterers have Saturday more than seven million tweets about the Eurovision Song Contest posted. A record, Twitter reported Sunday. Last year, six million tweets were sent and the previous year more than five million.
Eleven tourists have been injured during a trip to the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. The boat in which they were caught fire and sank. The 42 passengers on board, mostly Chinese, and four crew members were able to bring themselves in time to rescue rafts to safety. They were bobbing picked up at sea after two hours. Some were found to have broken ribs, others had hypothermia or seasick.
After two disastrous years, mountaineers finally have reached the summit of Mount Everest. That the Nepalese office confirmed for tourism. Nine mountain guides arrived Wednesday above.
British biologists on Tuesday published a comprehensive report on the situation in the plant world. In 'State of the World's Plants' all hitherto known 390,000 described species with leaves and grain. The vast majority flourish.
A US airstrike in Iraq has cost the lives of an Australian member of terrorist organization Islamic State (IS). The man, Neil Prakash, was suspected of recruiting jihad fighters in Australia. He called IS-sympathizers under Australian law also to commit attacks in that country and in the United States.
'Dirty loaches, disgusting creatures.' Australian Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce is certainly no fan of carp. The exotic fish, which superseded several native species in Australian waters in the past 150 years, must be eradicated. The panacea: a herpes virus.
Just use your voice to make money or check your balance. Since work at Citigroup. The bank plans to use voice recognition for its corporate clients in Asia. In the coming year at least one million customers have to use the technology. They would then have to enter a password more.
'I was anesthetized and when I awoke I had a giant baby in my arms.' Australian Breanna Sykes took Monday headlines when she gave birth to her son Ziad. The small, according to the new mother and his six kilos of the biggest baby she had ever seen at the hospital. '
Buma / Stemra virus was the first virus in the category of ransomware which gained notoriety in the Netherlands. This virus sends a message that is not allowed to remove easily. Ransomware can make it unreachable even personal files in severe cases. How do you deal with such an infection?
Not the strict Australian asylum policy has contributed to the self-immolation this week in a camp on the island of Nauru, but the very people who make a case for asylum. That accusation was made Tuesday by the Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton.
The wreck of one of the most famous ships in history, the Endeavour Captain Cook might have been found. Maritime archaeologists in Rhode Island say there are 80 to 100 percent sure that they found the ship on the bottom of the harbor of Newport.
An Australian woman has given birth to a baby less than 6 kilos. Eighteen-year-old mother Breanna Sykes was investigated in the fortieth week of pregnancy, when the doctor found that the child would never fit through her pelvis.
An Australian woman who worked as a social worker abducted in Afghanistan on Thursday morning from her office in the eastern city of Jalalabad. Australia is committed together with the Afghan government to free her, said Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop Friday.
The search in the Indian Ocean for the missing unit of Malaysia Airlines MH370 flight number with possible approaches its end. The Dutch soil researcher Fugro has been examined 100,000 square kilometers of seabed, with no result.
Papua New Guinea close the controversial refugee camp on the island of Manus. This happens after the ruling of the highest court in the land that the camp is illegal.
The detention of asylum seekers on Manus Island in Australia is contrary to the Constitution of Papua New Guinea, where Manus part. That the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea ruled Tuesday.
Australian police have a teenager arrested on suspicion of plotting an attack on the anniversary of the landing at Gallipoli during the First World War. Sixteen-year-old boy, who operated on their own, according to the police, would have wanted to purchase a firearm.
It will never happen to me, we all think of theft of your laptop, smartphone or tablet. Until it does happen, and then you holding the bag. Therefore it is good to be prepared, something you can not do with ease with a few handy tools.
According to the American Institute NOAA climate is the month of March was the warmest since the start of registrations in 1880. The average temperature over land and sea surface was 1.22 degrees Celsius higher than the average value of 12.7 in the twentieth century. March 2016 additionally improved the record from a year earlier to 0.32.
Inhaling high deodorant to be an Australian teenager killed. The 14-year-old boy probably died of a heart attack, Australian media reported.
The death toll from the earthquake two days ago continues to rise in Japan. At least forty people were killed by the quake on the southern island of Kyushu, reports including The Japan Times.
A new rat species discovered on the Manus Island in the Pacific. Although the rat is quite large and was not discovered earlier, he lives according to scientists already on the island thousands of years, which belongs to Papua New Guinea.
The search in the Indian Ocean for the missing unit of Malaysia Airlines flight number MH370 Wednesday hit by bad luck on board the research vessel. The rope which hung special unit with equipment to map the seabed at great depths snapped. The coordinator of the operation, the loss of the 'sleepvis' published in Canberra.
A woman and a four-member television crew from Australia should be in Lebanon to appear in court after the abduction of two children. The Australian government announced Wednesday to support the defendants.
An Australian has ordered the world's first Tesla's newest model. The car, the Model 3, is booked from Thursday. Andrew Stephens waited 48 hours at a Tesla dealership in Sydney, writes The Guardian.
A koala had to be taken under the supervision of police on the road in Australia after it landed by mistake on a busy roadway. There was a big traffic jam because motorists were driving or stopped walking pace, not to touch the koalas.
Counsel of Europe's most wanted terrorist Salah Abdeslam calls his claims that he will provide valuable information in exchange for a reduced sentence " credible and defensible. "
As far as prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, Australia's July 2 advance to the polls. Australian Prime Minister thus threatens to push through his controversial plans to reform the labor market and combating corruption in unions.