Parts of Australia are dealing with major flooding after the cyclone Debbie has wreaked havoc there. Especially in the state of Queensland's public life in many places stalled by the rising water. Schools take precaution closed doors. Also some holiday resorts had to be evacuated because of threat of lack of drinking water.
Scientists in a remote northwestern part of Australia may have found the largest paw imprint in the world of a dinosaur. The printing has a length of 1.7 meters.
Due to an impending hurricane thousands of residents of northeastern Australia have had to leave their home. According to meteorologists, the cyclone Debbie pulls from the sea with winds of 240 kilometers per hour toward the state of Queensland.
Justice in Australia has a 63-year-old man been indicted for the abduction and murder of a three-year-old girl 47 years ago. The man was arrested Wednesday, according to Australian media on Thursday.
An Australian police minister himself to the police after he was pointed out by a journalist that he had violated the law.
The Minister of Health of the Australian state of New South Wales Hazzard called for strict penalties for nepartsen. He wants prison sentences following the unmasking of the neparts Shyam Acharya, which from 2003 to 2014 as a doctor worked in several hospitals.
Following Amsterdam also get the Australian city of Sydney a bike mayor. On March 29, Sarah Imm is appointed to this position. Initiator Cycle Space strives towards a global network of bicycle mayors to promote the use of the bicycle.
Anti-terror units of the federal Australian police on Tuesday arrested a man which Islamic State would have helped to missile technology. Police arrested the 42-year-old suspect at his home in the rural town of Young.
A ten year old boy from Australia has narrowly survived a deadly bite of a spider tunnel. The boy had just given up twelve doses of antidote. According to Australian newspaper The Daily Telegraph that the highest dose administered once in a human.
Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, the first prime minister of Israel, once begun a visit to Australia. He landed at the airport in Sydney, which was heavily guarded. The visit lasts four days.
A French waitress in an Australian 'winery' has made a name as a brave reptile enver huntress. The 25-year-old Samia Lila worked in a restaurant in Mimosa vineyard about 400 kilometers south of Sydney, when a large monitor lizard came strolling into the well-stocked restaurant. Lila had never seen such a goanna. But she did not hesitate when the animal entered from the terrace restaurant, Australian media reported Tuesday.
A man in Australia risked his life to get out of a higher fare after fire broke out in a bus. Camera images can be seen according to Australian media how the passenger instormt the burning vehicle for a moment to check out.
The Catholic Church in Australia has paid converted 200 million compensation over the decades to thousands of people who as children in schools and institutions were sexually abused by clergy.
The Australian authorities on Sunday to leave the inhabitants of five remote areas strongly advised their homes in New South Wales since the wildfires pose a growing danger. The fire rages, fanned by the winds and the extremely hot weather, the sparsely populated, very dry area. Because roads closed at risk of exclusion, it was decided to evacuate.
It looked like a scene from a horror movie. An Australian man has been trapped for hours under water while he scarcely tried to keep his nose above water to breathe.
The Catholic priests in Australia would be 7 percent have committed between 1950 and 2010 on abuse of children. In a certain order even more than 40 percent of the employees accused of it.
In a search of a yacht off the coast of eastern Australia met with the federal police last week to 1.4 tons of cocaine. It is the largest catch ever for the Australian authorities who made the news on Monday. The drugs have a street value of converted approximately 222 million euros.
The White House is coming back from an assurance that the US takes on a group of Australia stranded migrants. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull stressed at the weekend that the new US president Donald Trump has agreed to comply with the agreements, but Australian media reported Wednesday that there are major obstacles have arisen.
Australian citizens with dual nationality are not affected by the decision of the US president Donald Trump for the time being not to let people from some predominantly Muslim countries to the US
In Australia, a shortage of poison of the deadly tunnelwebspin. A caretaker of the Australian Reptile Park, which is to catch the alarm and calling people on the spiders and give to the park to replenish the stock antidote. Especially now there is a wave of spider bites is expected.
The search in the Indian Ocean for the missing MH370 device is discontinued without a trace has been found of the plane that disappeared in 2014. Which have let the three countries involved in the study Tuesday in a statement.
The Australian government set up an independent watchdog in life to check the declarations of parliamentarians. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced the establishment of the regulator on Friday after another minister walked out because of a onkostenrel.
Trello, a tool with which colleagues can work together in the cloud, is taken over by his Australian rival Atlassian. This was announced by the two companies. It is not known how many will pay Atlassian. Trello continue to exist as a separate service.
Tonga and Samoa in Polynesian Triangle and Kiribati in the Pacific were the first places in the world where they could welcome 2017. And Australia has already ushered in the new year and have seven tons of fireworks.
At a music festival in Australia Friday night (local time) about eighty visitors injured in jeopardy after a concert.
The City Council of Randwick, a suburb of the largest Australian city of Sydney, says an alcohol ban on the popular Sydney Coogee Beach. Australian media reported on Tuesday that the council has come to this decision after a big party on the beach during Christmas caused havoc.
A three-year-old girl in Australia deceased after two hours stuck in a red hot, closed car. During the tragedy Saturday was the vehicle in the driveway of her parents' home in Sydney where it was about 30 degrees Celsius at the time.
Experts who search for the missing flight MH370 advise to continue the search in an area of another 25,000 square kilometers. The Australian Council for Transport Safety (ATSB) has announced Tuesday.
An Australian businessman wanted to cry when he arrived home this week. His home in Sydney with pale razed by construction workers who were mistaken.
It is a disease that belongs in films about sailors who sailed the seas for four hundred years ago: scurvy. Due to a prolonged vitamin C deficiency arose swelling and bleeding. Without treatment, death to them. A doctor in Sydney was surprised when he recently in several patients had diagnose scurvy.
