World News
Iran
“Hassan Rohani is someone world powers are likely to welcome as the successor to hardline populist incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, hoping he might pursue peaceful ways out of an increasingly tense standoff”
Read More...
Greece
“Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras tries to calm political crisis by offering partial reinstatement so transmissions can resume ‘immediately’”
Read More...
Iran
Iran’s presidential race gathered momentum as millions of people queued until late across the country night to elect a successor to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad”
Read More...
Turkey
“There’s an uneasy calm in central Istanbul after a night of clashes which saw Turkish riot police disperse anti-government demonstrators. Taksim Square is now largely cleared
Read More...
Syria
After concluding that ‘Assad’s government used chemical weapons against the rebels seeking to overthrow him and, in a major policy shift, President Obama has decided to supply military support to the rebels’
Read More...
South Africa
“Anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela was responding better to treatment in hospital on Wednesday morning after a ‘difficult last few days, South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma said”
Read More...
Commercial Reviews
Commercial Reviews
Critically acclaimed multi-talented Eddie Perfect and musical theatre and cabaret star Christie Whelan Browne will host the 13th Annual Helpmann Awards® presented live at the Sydney Opera House on July 29, 2013
Read More...
Commercial Reviews
Featuring survivors of the Adelaide musical theatre scene: Brady Lloyd, Claire McEvoy, David Salter and Rachel Rai. Musically directed by Aaron Nash, HOMEMADE FUSION is a series of musical snapshots
Read More...
Commercial
The 16th Spanish Film Festival opens with a contemporary Spanish blockbuster and closes with a Luis Buñuel classic
Read More...
Life Style, Arts, Food, Travel, Entertainment
Festival
The audience, seated café-style revelled in the vibrancy of the music, lapped up the saucy repartee, and knew they were in for an evening of fabulous French song
Read More...
Festival
Emma Hamilton is a performer by nature as well as a talented musician, as is her brother. She oozes love of stage and limelight and gererously gives out an air of positivity and energy while singing authentic French and jazz classics
Read More...
Festival
Pomeranz is a multi-talented and award winning composer, lyricist, and writer of musical theatre. His many years of song writing was for artists of the ilk of Barry Manilow, Dave Clark, Bette Midler, Freddie Mercury, Harry Belafonte, and Donna Summer
Read More...
Finance
Finance
“France is in a worse state than Britain was at the time of its 1976 bail-out by the International Monetary Fund, one of the nation’s best-known businessmen has declared”
Read More...
Finance
“BP and Shell were braced for the reaction of the markets on Wednesday after European regulators began an investigation into whether the companies may have manipulated the price of oil for more than a decade”
Read More...
Finance
“The European Commission on Friday gave France two more years to meet its budget deficit target because of the country’s poor economic outlook within the recession-hit euro zone”
Read More...
Medical and Health
Medical
“Though the nuisance condition, which causes leg spasms when fatigued, has kept the sandman at bay, new research shows that men with the condition faced a 40% higher risk of dying earlier than other men in the study”
Read More...
Health
“Michael Douglas’s announcement will cause a great deal more good than harm by bringing attention both to the signs and symptoms of oral cancer, as well as to prevention of the viral infection, HPV, that causes the cancer”
Read More...
Health
‘When we try to change our behavior, we strategise about our motivation and self-control. But what we should be thinking about instead is how to set up new habits. Habits persist even when we’re tired and don’t have the energy to exert self-control’
Read More...
Science, Technology and Space
Technology
“The devices violate a patent essential for 3G services that is held by South Korean rival Samsung Electronics; because they are assembled in China, the import ban would end Apple’s ability to sell them in the US”
Read More...
Space
“The passage close to Earth of a mountain-sized asteroid expected Friday has reignited discussions among scientists about how to deal with the improbable — but definitely possible — circumstance of an asteroid predicted to hit the planet”
Read More...
Other Categories
Natural Justice
“Activist Julian Assange says he plans to launch his WikiLeaks Party outside Australia, suggesting that the infant political organisation could expand into the US, India or Britain”
Read More...
International Crime
“The Home Office has given the green light to directly fund a full scale Metropolitan Police investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann”
Read More...
Natural Justice
“WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has advised whistleblower Edward Snowden to try to seek political asylum in Russia or South America”
Read More...