Archive for August, 2008

Tangled and alone, whale fights for life

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

LESS than a fortnight after the heartbreaking death of baby whale Collette, a second humpback is fighting for its life off Sydney.

Mobile phones ‘road death devices’ - police

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

THE mobile phone records of drivers involved in fatal accidents are being checked by police to see if they were talking or texting at the time.

Vibrating engine grounds Qantas plane

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

A QANTAS flight has landed without incident in the German city of Frankfurt after its crew shut down an engine because of a vibration.

‘Most Aborigines living normal lives’

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

THE majority of Aborigines are leading normal Australian lives but some have been “doing it hard for many years”, outgoing Governor-General Michael Jeffery says.

Two missing, as search finds plane debris

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

TWO men are missing, believed dead, after a stunt plane performing aerobatics crashed off the Gold Coast today.

Striking Fairfax workers to return to work

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

STRIKING Fairfax Media journalists in Victoria and NSW will return to work tomorrow after an agreement was reached to end the standoff between staff and management.

Home loan rates cut - at last

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

TREASURER Wayne Swan has welcomed Wizard Home Loans’ mortgage rate cut, and says other banks must do the same.

Childcare for babies is ‘abuse’, says author

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

PUTTING babies into childcare is a form of abuse, says best-selling Possum Magic author Mem Fox.

Reality TV fuels ‘huge’ Aussie surgery boom

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

MAKEOVER and weight loss shows are driving Australians to go under the knife to change their looks.

Viagra made grandfather, 80, a sex monster

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

A MAN who demanded sex with his wife three times a day after he began taking Viagra will pay her $232,000 in compensation.