A 3m (10ft) great white shark has killed a surfer in Australia, police have confirmed. The attack took place off Salt Beach at about 10:00 local time on Sunday (midnight GMT Saturday). The shark bit the leg of the surfer, aged between 50 and 60, off Kingscliff, 800km (500 miles) north of Sydney. Several “heroic” […]
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A strong 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck off northwest Australia Sunday, shaking buildings over a wide area but causing no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The shallow quake hit early Sunday afternoon 10 kilometres under the Indian Ocean 203 kilometres (126 miles) west of the West Australian beach resort of Broome, the US Geological Survey said. […]
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Australia could be the first country in the world to effectively eradicate cervical cancer if current vaccination and screening rates are maintained, according to a research in public health journal `the Lancet’ published on Wednesday. “By 2022, cervical cancer rates are predicted to drop to less than six cases per 100,000 people and thus be […]
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Antoine Griezmann scored from the first VAR-assisted penalty awarded in the history of the World Cup as title hopefuls France battled to a 2-1 win over gutsy Australia in Kazan on Saturday. Griezmann, expected to make a huge impact on Russia 2018 after topping the Euro 2016 scorers with six goals, was left frustrated by […]
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The number of Cameroonian athletes missing at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games rose from three to eight on Wednesday, as Games officials expressed concern over their safety. “The Cameroon Commonwealth team is sad to announce that eight athletes are missing from their respective rooms in the Games village,’’ Team’s Chef de mission Victor Agbor Nso […]
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Nigeria’s table tennis team on Saturday defeated hosts Australia 3-1 in the men’s team quarter-finals event at the ongoing Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. The Nigerian team had earlier defeated Belize 3-0 and Malaysia 3-1 respectively in their group games on Thursday. In match 1, Bode Abiodun defeated Heming Hu 3-2 (11-9,10-12,11-4,8-11,11-8), while Olajide Omotayo […]
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Nigeria has qualified for the round of 16 of the table tennis men’s team event at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia. The second African team in the event – Ghana is one match away from making it to the last 16 following their 0-3 loss to England in their first group match. […]
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Extreme heat has caused several deaths in Australia especially across the states in Victoria on Friday, as five of the eight states and territories sweltered above 40 degrees Celsius, emergency services has said. Since Thursday, emergency workers responded to more than 30 cardiac arrest calls, a significant spike, and several of them had died, Ambulance […]
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Residents in a small town in the north-eastern Australian state of Queensland said they have been “held hostage,” by 200,000 bats. No fewer than 200,000 flying foxes, the world’s largest bats, have overrun the Charters Towers’s residents since Friday, the mayor of the town told dpa on Monday. A resident Elizabeth Schmidt said: “It’s an […]
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Friday said Australians handed in 51,000 guns during a three-month amnesty, though he rejected calls to extend it following the weekend’s mass shooting in Las Vegas. “I am not suggesting we won’t have gun amnesties in the future, but this one has been very effective because it has, as I […]
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