Press report reveals that South Africa is the favourite to host the world’s largest radio telescope ahead of Australia.
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/ 2 February 2008
African author Ishmael Beah is under intense pressure to admit that his best-selling memoir of child soldiering in Sierra Leone is a mix of fact and fiction. A Long Way Gone has sold almost 700 000 copies and transformed Beah from penniless orphan to millionaire writer and the United Nations Children’s Fund poster boy.
Just days after announcing the end of their 10- year-marriage in June, bad-boy cricketer Shane Warne and wife Simone were snapped on a Spanish holiday buying up a storm in local boutiques. According to Stella Minahan, a researcher at Melbourne’s Deakin University, her fellow Australians were engaged in ”retail therapy” to help them forget their cares and woes.
Put it this way: those who have a love life are likely to live longer than those who don’t. That’s the conclusion Australian academic Prof Marc Cohen came to after reading through the literature on the link between love and longevity. ”Having love in your life will improve your chances of living a long life,” Cohen said.
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/ 20 November 2003
He is good-looking, clean-living, great at kicking a football and better at making money from his sport than any other player. It’s rugby’s Jonny Wilkinson we are talking about here, not football’s David Beckham. Wilkinson is the man feared most by Australia, the hosts of the fifth Rugby World Cup and its defending champions.
If it is built, Australia’s kilometre-tall solar tower project will be the biggest single generator of green energy in the world.