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2,500 Scientists To Australia: If You Want To Save The Great Barrier Reef, Stop Supporting Coal

2,500 Scientists To Australia: If You Want To Save The Great Barrier Reef, Stop Supporting Coal

Coral reefs around the world are in a dire predicament, as warmer-than-usual waters are causing widespread bleaching and death among these crucial marine organisms. Now, more than 2,500 marine scientists and policy experts are urging the Australian government to protect the world’s largest and most well-known coral ecosystem: the Great Barrier Reef. “Coral reefs … […]

Nigerian Gunmen Frees Australian and South African Hostages

Nigerian Gunmen Frees Australian and South African Hostages

Seven contractors, including three Australians and a South African, have been released unharmed four days after they were kidnapped by gunmen in southern Nigeria, local police and a state security adviser said on Sunday. Reports say police had earlier given accounts of how many had been seized and what their nationalities were, and that they […]

Australian MP, Robert Borsak shot and ate an elephant in Africa

Australian MP, Robert Borsak shot and ate an elephant in Africa

The NSW Shooters and Fishers MP Robert Borsak has boasted he shot and ate an elephant in Africa during a hunting trip. During a late night speech in which he rallied against extremist animal rights groups, he said these groups had too much influence over public policy. “Animals do not have intrinsic human rights … […]

Switzerland’s Ambassador to Nigeria Faces Life Imprisonment After Being Caught With His Gay Partner in Nigeria

Switzerland’s Ambassador to Nigeria Faces Life Imprisonment After Being Caught With His Gay Partner in Nigeria

The federal government has launched an investigation to unravel the circumstances that led to the coming of Switzerland’s Ambassador to Nigeria with a male spouse alleged to be his gay partner. Eric Mayooraz, who was posted to Nigeria last year to head the Swiss mission, is alleged to have arrived the country in the company […]

Pictures of Dead Bodies Left Behind on Mt. Everest

Pictures of Dead Bodies Left Behind on Mt. Everest

George Mallory (Cause of death: Fall/Head Trauma) George was among the first climbers to attempt to climb Mt. Everest. His climb (and subsequent death) occurred in 1924. His body was not found and identified until 1999. He may have been the first person to summit the mountain. Whether he reached the top or not remains […]

Turkey shoots down Russian jet after violating its air space

Turkey shoots down Russian jet after violating its air space

Turkey’s military have today shot down a Russian war plane near its border with Syria after the jet violated Turkish air space.The Russian Sukhoi Su-24 jet was shot down by Turkish F-16 fighter planes after ignoring nearly a dozen warnings, Turkish army officials said. However, Russia’s Ministry of Defence claims the jet was in Syrian […]

Aussie TV host amazes world with frank ISIS assessment

Aussie TV host amazes world with frank ISIS assessment

Waleed Aly amazingly puts down ISIS in this clip AN AUSTRALIAN TV host has stunned the world with his frank assessment of ISIS’ threat in the wake of the Paris attacks. Waleed Aly, a Muslim co-host on The Project, has said politicians and Muslim leaders who have preached “hate” since Friday’s devastation actually help Islamic […]

Islamic State’s success in hitting outside the Mideast has Washington, Europe rethinking options

Islamic State’s success in hitting outside the Mideast has Washington, Europe rethinking options

Thirty minutes of terror on the streets of Paris looks to become the catalyst for a broad shift in international politics with implications that could last for years. Much of the focus in the West over the past year has been on a perceived growing threat from Russia. Terrorism was a real, but containable problem. […]

Apple Caught On Video Being Racist: Blacks Ejected From Apple Shop

Apple Caught On Video Being Racist: Blacks Ejected From Apple Shop

Apple Inc. has apologised to six schoolboys who were told by management to leave one of their shops in Australia, in what the students and many social media users described as a racist incident. Footage of the incident at Highpoint shopping centre in Melbourne surfaced on Tuesday sparking a social media outcry, reported the BBC. […]

Turning Down Billions: Grading 15 Tech Companies that Declined Big Takeover Offers

Turning Down Billions: Grading 15 Tech Companies that Declined Big Takeover Offers

If you were to ask legendary investor Peter Thiel about the most important moment in Facebook history, he would point to an exchange in July 2006. Yahoo had made the lucrative offer of $1 billion for Facebook, and Peter Thiel as well as board member Jim Breyer got called into a meeting about the deal […]

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