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Three months only in the air, in the open cockpit of a biplane in 1942; the dream of a 53-year-old British woman came out to fly solo from England to Australia.

At a large forest fire in western Australia, making nearly one hundred homes were damaged, three people have gone missing. They may have fled and have not yet come forward. The flames swept through a small town in the countryside south of Perth. That made the emergency on Friday.

Samsung launches its mobile payment service in the short term in Australia, Brazil and Singapore. In addition, the service will soon be used via the gear S2 smart watch of the company.

In Melbourne, Australia is a family left homeless after a hoverboard, received as a gift cherry, caught fire during charging. The fire started in the bedroom, it spread quickly. The house has been badly damaged.

In the Netherlands it is not so far, but on the other side of the world, the new year has begun. The first places in 2016 has been kicked his Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga and Tokelau in the Pacific.

The Australian state of Northern Territory affected by flooding. The residents fear not only the advancing water, but also what it swims: saltwater crocodiles.

The 53-year-old Briton John Beeden is the first person successfully non-stop to row across the Pacific. The tour began on June 1st in San Francisco and ended Monday after 209 days in the Australian Cairns. Beeden, who said that there were moments when he did not go to, grew an average of 15 hours a day and came nowhere between ashore.

A freight train loaded with approximately 200 000 liters of sulfuric acid, is ontpoord in the Australian state of Queensland. The authorities have dropped the environment around the site of the accident. They say that a small amount of sulfuric acid and diesel oil has leaked report Austalische media.

Northwest England struggling for the second time in a month's time with major flooding. Elsewhere in the world it is not a standard in December again.

More than a hundred houses in southern Australia destroyed by wildfires. On Friday were certainly 103 houses in flames and had to be evacuated hundreds of people in the southern state of Victoria because of the blaze. To our knowledge no one was injured.

Apple plans to roll apple pay next year in some European and Asian countries. Bloomberg reports that Apple's mobile payment service to China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Spain will bring.

In Australia, two more men arrested those allegedly involved in planning attacks on government buildings. These are men of 20 and 24 years. The new arrests is the number thirteen arrests, reported to the police of the state of New South Wales on Wednesday. Earlier this month, five people were indicted in the case, including a boy of fifteen.

Cigarettes are soon 'anonymous' on the shelves in France. The French parliament decided Thursday to introduce a rule that cigarettes may be sold only in a neutral standard package, without clear logo.

Sydney, Australia on Wednesday surprised by a rare tornado. The whirlwind with speeds above 200 kilometers per hour and hailstones as big as tennis balls left a trail of destruction.

Was pop sensation Taylor Swift formerly quite averse to streaming music, now she seems in any case in which Apple found a good spot. The iPhone-maker and Swift have now signed a new exclusive deal about a concert recording.

Reckitt Benckiser must be ordered by the courts in Australia pick up some of his painkillers on the market. The British company has misled the public by bringing different types of painkiller Nurofen market while the contents of the funds was the same.

Australia has confirmed that the country has received a request from the United States to send more military resources to the Middle East. That made ​​the Australian news channel ABC announced, without saying how it got the information.

Twitter is currently testing a feature that people who read tweets without logging in, ads get displayed. In this way, hopes to earn the microblogging network money on non- active users.

Play music service Google Music gets a special subscription for families. The service will cost 15 euros per month for a family of up to six people.

An Australian with Kurdish fighters in Syria has fought against terrorist organization Islamic State (ISIS) is back in his homeland. The 23-year-old Ashley Dyball was arrested last week in Germany because of his activities in the Middle East.

The five-year-old Isis Taylor looked crestfallen on when the Nutella Machine in the supermarket refused to print her name on a jar of hazelnut paste. As a publicity stunt were children in Australia before their name on the famous wrap around a pot 's put, but Isis belonged to the group names that are forbidden.

At the Place de la Republique in Paris, hundreds of pairs of shoes of people who were planning to demonstrate Sunday in the French capital. Authorities in France have imposed a ban on demonstrations after the attacks in Paris two weeks ago.

In Australia, Sunday, tens of thousands of people to the streets to demonstrate for the climate. Alone in Sydney were more than 45,000 people on their feet. The protesters want more measures are taken to protect the climate.

With new clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians Thursday killed two Palestinians. A man tried at a checkpoint near Nablus Israeli security forces to attack with a knife and was then shot dead, said a police spokeswoman.

Forest fires in southern Australia certainly claimed two lives. Three people are missing and thirteen were wounded. Also, according to the Australian authorities, thousands of animals died and sixteen houses were destroyed.

The Australian authorities are using new technologies in the fight against sharks. Thus, on the coast of the state of New South Wales used drones in the east of the country.

Australia test drones that can seek out sharks off the coast. 'See ' the drone a shark, he sends a photo with GPS coordinates to the Coast Guard. That makes swimmers go to the water.

Apple is busy with the global rollout of its payment service apple pay in February was China 's turn. Wall Street Journal reports that the tech giant pressure is negotiating with companies and financial service providers in China to allow rapid introduction of apple pay.

To stem the flow of funds used by terrorists, more needs to be done to combat money laundering. In order to realize this, thinks the French Finance Minister on the efforts of the OECD, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

China has converted 14 million pledged to continue the search for the missing flight MH370. That Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Saturday, reports the Chinese news agency Xinhua.