United States President Barak Obama made a surprising announcement on his trip to Australia. During a joint news conference with Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, the US President announced an expansion of the U.S. military presence in Australia. According to President Barack Obama, “the United States plans to position more U.S. personnel and equipment here, [...]
Qantas airlines lost a child passenger last month. The child was unaccompanied and the airline has now admitted to losing track of the passenger. The mistake caused the 11-year-old passenger to venture around a crowded airport at a very late hour, all alone. The airline’s staff lost the paperwork related to the passenger but they [...]
ANZ banking group is legally being challenged due to what customers are calling unfairly high overdraft fees. This class action lawsuit is set to be the biggest in recent banking history, and thousands of ANZ customers stand to be compensation should the banking giant be found in the wrong. There are about 34,000 banking customers [...]
A massive industrial chemical fire threatens a Mitchell, nation’s capital and its residence. This has led to the evacuation of Canberra. The fire seemed to be under control until there was a huge chemical explosions which lead to subsequent explosions. The chemical fire started in a building that housed a company which worked with oil [...]
Facebook is putting the brakes on the possibility of going public in the spring of 2012. Co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has decided to postpone the offering of public stock until at least the fall of that year. Employees of Facebook are eager to have the stock go public so that they can cash in. Zuckerberg desires [...]
Alleged members of the group EFTPOS told a court that they had offered shop keeps up to $25,000 to have modified machines installed. These dummy machines were made to steal customer’s credit card information. It was also said that they replaced other machines with decoys to steal additional information from customers. EFTPOS has been repeatedly [...]
The United States Stock Market has been on a virtual roller coaster. The stock market dropped over 500 points on the heels of two pieces of financial news. Other credit rating agencies warned that further downgrades were possible. The economy was already reeling from Standard and Poor downgrading the US credit rating. The markets rebounded [...]
The agricultural industry in Australia and New Zealand has received a major blow recently. In the countires, people who are responsible for fruit growing and production have stated that apples being grown in the countries have exposed the people to the fire blight disease. After going over and reviewing biosecurity measures in the countries of [...]
It appears that Facebook has added a nice treat for it’s users and fans. It was recently announced that they have added a new video calling feature to that will allow users to be able to video chat with their friends. While Skype already has a function that is similar to this method, what this [...]
Rupert Murdoch is preparing for interrogation by the British MP that start Tuesday, July 20th. Rupert and his son James with his former UK Chief Executive will be answering questions. The questions concern voice mail hacking and making illegal payments to Police officers. It will take place before a Parliamentary Select Committee of distinguished members. [...]
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