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/ 21 January 2006
A distressed Michaella Krajicek became the first victim of furnace conditions at the Australian Open on Saturday when heat exhaustion forced the Dutch teenager to concede her third-round match. The sight of the 17-year-old breaking down in the heat has again raised questions about the safety of conditions at the grand slam.
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/ 11 January 2006
Some of the world’s worst polluting nations launched a controversial conference with international business chiefs in Sydney on Wednesday to seek high-tech solutions to global warming. Ministers from the United States, China, India, Japan, South Korea and Australia were meeting with executives from major mining and energy companies including Exxon Mobil, Rio Tinto and Peabody Energy.
Comedian John Cleese owes a lot to the animal kingdom after building a career around the surreal Monty Python and achieving mainstream movie success with A Fish Called Wanda — now he’s decided to return the favour. The lanky Briton said on Friday that he had become a passionate supporter of zoological gardens in recent years and wanted to help their conservation work.
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/ 29 December 2005
2006 will be a make-or-break year for airlines with big expansion plans in the Asian region, the Centre for Asia-Pacific Aviation said in its annual outlook report. With an unprecedented number of aircraft ordered by Asian airlines for delivery in 2007, the Sydney-based industry research group said next year represented "the quiet before the storm"..
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/ 28 November 2005
It takes guts to dance in the midst of a baying arena of alcohol-fuelled Australian farmers wearing an oversized daisy pinned to a Superman shirt and oversized shorts held up by crimson braces. To do it when a tonne of angry Brahmin bull is charging towards you with lowered horns takes something close to lunacy.
Australian scientists are using the collective intelligence found in insect swarms to develop the next generation of hi-tech military hardware. The goal is to develop swarms of small, expendable unmanned vehicles that can carry out missions in ground, sea and aerial environments too dangerous for humans.