au-hotdailynews: 2015

2015年11月7日星期六

2015-11-08 Australia More Top Stories

Sky News Australia

TURC clears Shorten, does itself no favours
The Australian
The royal commission into union corruption does itself no favours by leaving it until a Friday night to clear Bill Shorten of any crime. The Opposition Leader warrants better treatment than that. Given the intense scrutiny on Shorten's conduct during ...
Commission says 'no disrespect' intended   Sky News Australia
Labor says trade union royal commission submissions clearing Bill Shorten ...   NEWS.com.au
Bill Shorten cleared of any unlawful conduct by unions royal commission   The Guardian
Sydney Morning Herald
Herald Sun
all 35 news articles »

dailytelegraph.com.au

Locals succeed where $70k dog rescue mission fails
dailytelegraph.com.au
Take a look at the incredible moments Brooklyn the Dog is saved by rescuers after spending days in a wombat hole. Courtesy: Amanda Fleith/Storm Spotters Australia. November 7th 2015; a day ago; /video/video.news.com.au/News/. LONG after the rescue ...

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2015-11-08 Australia Health

Australian scientists' cancer discovery
Herald Sun
Australian scientists have identified a molecular mechanism that contributes to development of neuroblastoma, a form of childhood cancer triggered by embryonic nerve cells. The Children's Cancer Institute research team led by Michelle Haber and Glenn ...

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2015-11-08 Australia Science

Ancient rat discovered in East Timor bigger than a cat
The Australian
It's every moggy's nightmare — a rat big enough to chase cats. Australian researchers scouring archaeological deposits in East Timor have unearthed the remains of what they say is the world's largest ever rat. And it survived alongside the island's ...
ANU team discover largest known fossils of giant rats on East Timor   The Canberra Times
Canberra archaeologists discover fossils of giant rats the size of dogs in ...   ABC Online
Beware of the MEGARAT: Researchers find fossils of the biggest rodent in ...   Daily Mail
Washington Post
Nature World News
Science World Report
Australian National University
all 17 news articles »

Kangaroo farts won't save the world
The Verge
Scientists locked kangaroos in a room to measure their farts. In theory, this was to see if their guts contained bacteria that might reduce methane emissions if placed in other animals' guts; in reality, this was done because there isn't much else ...
Faster digestion in kangaroos reduces methane emissions   HealthCanal.com (press release) (blog)
Decreasing methane yield with increasing food intake keeps daily methane ...   Journal of Experimental Biology - The Company of Biologists

all 107 news articles »

ABC Science Online

Heatwaves attributed to human induced climate change
ABC Science Online
KIM LANDERS: A heatwave in Adelaide last January, severe frosts in south-eastern Australia and a late-autumn heatwave across the country have all been attributed to human-induced climate change. The findings are reported in the fourth issue of the ...

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2015-11-08 Australia Sports

Charles Waterstreet: Michelle Payne turns her critics and rivals into pygmies
Sydney Morning Herald
No one has spent more time, effort and money in advancing the interests of women than me. I have spent all my time, in the past, and intend to spend all the rest of my time, in the future. When Michelle Payne brought Prince of Penzance home in a ...

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The Age

Carlisle case shows up illicit drugs issue
The Age
The degree of misjudgment that ever prompted a too meddlesome AFL and a too-compliant players' association to enact an illicit drugs code continues to emerge as the years pass. The punishment for Jake Carlisle announced on Friday goes beyond both the ...

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2015-11-08 Australia Entertainment

Kerry O'Brien exits Four Corners
NEWS.com.au
KERRY O'Brien is leaving ABC current affairs show Four Corners. The veteran journalist, who has been presenting the show on the public broadcaster for five years, said he would be stepping down at the end of this season. O'Brien revealed the news in a ...

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2015-11-08 Australia Technology

Driverless cars 'could be on roads by 2020', Volvo predicts ahead of first ...
ABC Online
Adelaide has hosted a milestone event in automotive technology, with the first driverless car trial in the Southern Hemisphere on the Southern Expressway concluding without a hitch. A modified Volvo XC90 using driverless software was put through its ...
No bumps in the road in Australia's first public demonstration of driverless cars   Sydney Morning Herald
Driverless cars trialled in SA   The Australian (blog)
When I broke the first rule of motoring   The Advertiser
Huffington Post Australia
all 11 news articles »

Forbes

'Call Of Duty: Black Ops 3' Review: Down The Rabbit Hole
Forbes
Call of Duty - Campaign Call of Duty: Black Ops III is the best game in the series in a very long time. The game combines the various modes we've all become familiar with—a single player campaign; a competitive multiplayer mode; cooperative zombie ...

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2015-11-08 Australia Business

Carbon tax more affordable than GST hike to raise same revenue, say Greens
The Guardian
The leader of the Australian Greens, Richard Di Natale, has entered the tax debate, stressing his party's economic credentials. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP. Guardian staff and agencies. Saturday 7 November 2015 17.24 EST. Share on Facebook · Share on ...

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2015-11-08 Australia Australia

Sky News Australia

TURC clears Shorten, does itself no favours
The Australian
The royal commission into union corruption does itself no favours by leaving it until a Friday night to clear Bill Shorten of any crime. The Opposition Leader warrants better treatment than that. Given the intense scrutiny on Shorten's conduct during ...
Commission says 'no disrespect' intended   Sky News Australia
Bill Shorten says trade union royal commission revealed political motives ...   ABC Online
Labor says trade union royal commission submissions clearing Bill Shorten ...   NEWS.com.au
The Guardian
Sydney Morning Herald
Herald Sun
all 44 news articles »

dailytelegraph.com.au

Locals succeed where $70k dog rescue mission fails
dailytelegraph.com.au
Take a look at the incredible moments Brooklyn the Dog is saved by rescuers after spending days in a wombat hole. Courtesy: Amanda Fleith/Storm Spotters Australia. November 7th 2015; a day ago; /video/video.news.com.au/News/. LONG after the rescue ...

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2015-11-08 Australia World

Brazil dam burst: 17 dead, dozens missing as mudslides flatten a village and ...
ABC Online
Firefighters have rescued about 500 survivors from a torrent of mining waste that killed at least 17 people and destroyed a village after two dams burst in southeastern Brazil. They searched frantically for survivors after the mudslide erupted from ...
BHP, Vale drop after Brazil dam disaster   The Australian Financial Review
Brazil Searches for Missing After Dam Breach   Wall Street Journal
Brazilian village buried in mudslide   CBC.ca
Daily Mail
Fox News Latino
Folha de S.Paulo
all 720 news articles »

Reuters

US patrol sought to avoid provocation, not reinforce China island claim: officials
Reuters
WASHINGTONThe U.S. Navy deliberately avoided military drills or other actions that could have further inflamed tensions with Beijing during a patrol last week near islands China has built in the South China Sea, U.S. officials said. "We wanted to ...
US Wants China to be Part of Asian Security System: Ashton Carter   NDTV
EU urges peaceful settlement in disputed sea   ABS CBN News
Chinese warship and US destroyer keep it friendly in South China Sea   New York Post
AsiaOne
all 243 news articles »

Washington Post

US police officers charged with murder after shooting Jeremy Mardis, 6, and dad
Sydney Morning Herald
Two police officers will be charged with second-degree murder and second-degree attempted murder after more than a dozen shots were fired into a car, leaving a six-year-old boy dead and his father critically wounded. Norris Greenhouse jnr, 23, and ...
Two police officers arrested after 6-year-old boy shot, killed in Louisiana   myfox8.com
Officers arrested in 6-year-old boy's shooting death   wtvr.com
2 Louisiana police officers charged with murder in shooting death of 6-year ...   fox4kc.com
New York Daily News
all 525 news articles »

Washington Post

China, Taiwan in historic handshake in Singapore
NEWS.com.au
THE presidents of China and Taiwan reached across decades of Cold War-era estrangement and rivalry to exchange a historic handshake and warm words in the first summit since the two sides' traumatic 1949 split. China's Xi Jinping and Taiwan's Ma ...

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2015年11月6日星期五

2015-11-07 Australia More Top Stories

Metrojet plane crash: black boxes suggest bomb, Putin halts flights to Egypt
The Australian
Analysis of black boxes from the Russian plane that crashed in Egypt killing 224 people points to a bomb, sources close to the probe said Friday, as Moscow halted flights to the country. Meanwhile, British airlines were scrambling to evacuate ...
Russian plane crash: Islamic State leaders 'celebrate' downing, communications ...   ABC Online
'Sound of explosion' on Russian jet black box   Sky News Australia
Russian plane crash: Explosion heard on black boxes   Sydney Morning Herald
Reuters
NBCNews.com
Asia Times
all 8,866 news articles »

Sky News Australia

Commission's timing on Shorten 'unusual'
Sky News Australia
Labor MPs say it's 'unusual' submissions effectively clearing Bill Shorten of wrongdoing while a union official were released late at night. The trade union royal commission released a statement after 8pm on Friday indicating the inquiry's lawyers had ...
'No criminal case against Shorten'   The Australian
Bill Shorten cleared of any unlawful conduct by unions royal commission   The Guardian
No charges supported against Bill Shorten but Cesar Melhem under cloud: probe ...   Sydney Morning Herald
ABC Online
all 35 news articles »

Melbourne police charge two men over Geelong schoolgirl sex attack, as two ...
Herald Sun
Four men have been arrested over the brutal gang rape of a 14-year-old girl in Geelong. November 7th 2015; 9 hours ago; /video/video.news.com.au/News/. TWO men accused of the alleged gang rape and child abduction of a schoolgirl in Geelong last ...

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2015-11-07 Australia Health

Health overuse hotspots revealed
The Australian
Drugs for ADHD are prescribed to children most regularly in the country town of Taree and antibiotics are dished out like lollies in Sydney's west, while the residents of Western Australia's Bunbury have the highest rate of knee arthroscopies in Australia.

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Australian scientists' cancer discovery
Herald Sun
Australian scientists have identified a molecular mechanism that contributes to development of neuroblastoma, a form of childhood cancer triggered by embryonic nerve cells. The Children's Cancer Institute research team led by Michelle Haber and Glenn ...

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2015-11-07 Australia Science

Sydney Morning Herald

Kangaroo farts experiment has serious side
Sydney Morning Herald
Aussie biologist Adam Munn gets very excited when he recounts the months he and his colleagues spent capturing kangaroo farts. It sounds like a dangerous pursuit. And just why anyone would want to is baffling on the surface. But this myth-busting ...

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2015-11-07 Australia Sports

Text Edge Style
The Australian
Cricket: Brendon Julian and Stuart Clark review day two of of the first Test between Australia and New Zealand, with the Aussies in total control after a big first innings. November 7th 2015; 6 hours ago; /video/video.news.com.au/Sport/Cricket/News ...
/video/video.news.com.au/Sport/Cricket/News/   NEWS.com.au
LIVE BLOG DAY 3: AUSTRALIA V NEW ZEALAND   Courier Mail
LIVE: Johnson strikes early   cricket.com.au
ABC Online
The Roar
The West Australian
all 1,137 news articles »

Phillip Hughes: The Official Biography — an extract
The Australian
Phil Hughes during day three of the Second Test between South Africa and Australia at Kingsmead on March 8, 2009, in Durban, South Africa. It is 12 months since Phillip Hughes was felled playing the game he loved. A year since the death of a brilliant ...

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2015-11-07 Australia Entertainment

Kerry O'Brien exits Four Corners
NEWS.com.au
KERRY O'Brien is leaving ABC current affairs show Four Corners. The veteran journalist, who has been presenting the show on the public broadcaster for five years, said he would be stepping down at the end of this season. O'Brien revealed the news in a ...

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2015-11-07 Australia Technology

Sydney Morning Herald

Chronos disc turns any watch into a smartwatch
Sydney Morning Herald
People who like watches tend to really like their watches. That means most aren't giving up their hard-won collections in favour of something digital. Smartwatches aren't just up for debate — they're not even part of the conversation. The Chronos ...
Turn Any Watch Into A Smart Watch With Chronos   Forbes
Chronos Is An IOT Disc That Can Turn Any Watch Into A Semi-Smartwatch   STGIST
Chronos Will Make Your Regular Watch 'Smart'   Apex Tribune
TIME
Council Chronicle
all 31 news articles »

Driverless cars 'could be on roads by 2020', Volvo predicts ahead of first ...
ABC Online
Adelaide has hosted a milestone event in automotive technology, with the first driverless car trial in the Southern Hemisphere on the Southern Expressway concluding without a hitch. A modified Volvo XC90 using driverless software was put through its ...
First driverless car makes it on to public roads in Adelaide   The Australian
Driverless car hits the road in Adelaide   CIO Australia
Autonomous vehicles on Australian roads by 2020: Volvo   Practical Motoring
SBS
all 7 news articles »

NDTV

Google tries to woo enterprises with new Android for Work initiatives
Techworld Australia
Google continued its enterprise push on Wednesday with the launch of new programs relating to Android for Work, its group of features and services that help make the mobile operating system easier to manage for businesses. To attract more companies to ...

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2015-11-07 Australia Business

Sydney Morning Herald

October payrolls surge, jobless rate falls to seven-year low
Sydney Morning Herald
Forget about nuance. The October jobs report left little doubt the US labour market is back with a vengeance after a two-month lull. The 271,000 gain in payrolls was the biggest this year and exceeded all estimates in a Bloomberg survey of economists, ...

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2015-11-07 Australia Australia

Sky News Australia

Taxi drivers to face court over drug delivery
Sky News Australia
Four Sydney taxi drivers accused of each making up to 150 deliveries a day of cocaine around the harbour city will face court. Police will allege the four men, in their 30s, were following a pizza delivery style business model for several months. A ...
Court adjourned for Sydney taxi drivers   The Australian
Four charged; cocaine and firearms seized - Strike Force Illinoi   NSW Police Online (press release)
Taxi drivers arrested over 'cocaine delivery service'   Stuff.co.nz
ABC Online
Sydney Morning Herald
all 40 news articles »

Informant claims Karlie Pearce-Stevenson had $25000 of drug debt: report
9news.com.au
An informant has told police Karlie Pearce-Stevenson owed $25,000 in drug money when she left Alice Springs.(Supplied). FTBAPGL. A Crime Stoppers caller has reportedly claimed Karlie Pearce-Stevenson was a drug runner who had up to $25,000 in debt.
Murdered mother had drug debts   The Australian (blog)
/video/video.news.com.au/News/   NEWS.com.au
Karlie Pearce-Stevenson 'was a drug runner who fled with a $25k debt' before ...   Daily Mail
The Advertiser
all 19 news articles »

Child abuse royal commission: The paedophile whose victims loved him
Brisbane Times
A former Deputy Headmaster at Brisbane Grammar asks "what good is an apology?" while admitting "countless boys" were abused on his watch. PT2M25S 620 349. Video will begin in 5 seconds. Don't play; Play now. He was a father figure, a mentor, ...

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2015-11-07 Australia World

Metrojet plane crash: black boxes suggest bomb, Putin halts flights to Egypt
The Australian
Analysis of black boxes from the Russian plane that crashed in Egypt killing 224 people points to a bomb, sources close to the probe said Friday, as Moscow halted flights to the country. Meanwhile, British airlines were scrambling to evacuate ...
Russian plane crash: Islamic State leaders 'celebrate' downing, communications ...   ABC Online
'Sound of explosion' on Russian jet black box   Sky News Australia
Russian plane crash: Explosion heard on black boxes   Sydney Morning Herald
Reuters
NBCNews.com
Asia Times
all 8,866 news articles »

THE BUSINESS TIMES

Protests in Taiwan as Ma leaves for meet with Xi
THE BUSINESS TIMES
Taiwanese protesters shout slogans and hold banners against Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou and Chinese President Xi Jinping meeting in Singapore, outside Songshan Airport in Taipei, Taiwan on Nov 07, 2015. PHOTO: EPA. Comments. Share. Nov 7 ...

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2015年11月5日星期四

2015-11-06 Australia More Top Stories

ZDNet

TPP: Robb acknowledges there are still hurdles
The Australian
Trade and Investment Minister Andrew Robb has acknowledged there are still hurdles to overcome before a landmark Pacific-wide trade deal can enter into force including the agreement's ratification by the 12 member nations. But Mr Robb argued the text ...
Australia jumped the gun on the TPP's piracy crackdown   Sydney Morning Herald
Trans-Pacific Partnership deal faces new attacks from left and right flanks   The Australian Financial Review
Robb hopeful TPP will be ratified in 2016   Sky News Australia
The Globe and Mail
New York Times
Whitehouse.gov (press release)
all 1,009 news articles »

Sydney Morning Herald

Russian plane crash: Obama speculates on possible bomb
Sydney Morning Herald
Cairo: President Obama and other senior Western officials said Thursday that a bomb may have caused a Russian passenger jet to crash in Egypt last weekend, redoubling speculation about a terrorist attack despite heated protests from the governments of ...

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2015-11-06 Australia Health

Sydney Morning Herald

Research finds increasing steps cuts death rate by 46%
Sydney Morning Herald
Increasing daily steps from 1000 to 10,000 a day can lower a sedentary person's chance of dying early by 46 per cent, new research has found. The Australian research proved a direct link between exercise and popular devices like pedometers and Fitbits.
Why you should step up the walking   The Australian Women's Weekly
More daily steps 'boosts life expectancy'   9news.com.au
Regular Walking Cuts Down Early Death Risk By 47%   AskMen
The Guardian
all 6 news articles »

Neuroblastoma: Researchers identify experimental drug CBL0137 that combats ...
ABC Online
Australian scientists have identified an experimental drug with the potential to combat one of the worst childhood cancers. Neuroblastoma, the most common solid tumour of early childhood, is generally diagnosed when the disease is advanced so fewer ...
Australian scientists' cancer discovery   The Australian (blog)
Australian scientists identify potential drug to stop worst childhood cancer   International Business Times AU
Experimental drug giving hope to kids with cancer   SBS
News Nation
Daily News & Analysis
all 23 news articles »

Govt to roll out stronger flu jab in 2016
Herald Sun
Australians most vulnerable to the flu will get free access to stronger vaccines in 2016 following a record number of cases this year. The government's national immunisation program will now include a vaccine that covers four flu strains instead of ...
Australia prepared for 2016 flu season after record number of cases in 2015   GlobalPost
Flu Season Is Upon Us   knopnews2
Flu season is here   cedarspringspost
Wicked Local North Andover
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
all 142 news articles »

What's the biggest relationship killer?
Warwick Daily News
OF all the difficult emotions we know so well in life, there is one particular rogue which can stalk our relationships like the proverbial bad witch at a wedding, sucking up joy and spreading poison in its wake: Resentment. And like all bad witches ...

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Sydney nurse who took explicit photo of patient under anaesthetic still ...
ABC Online
Sydney school teacher Breanna (not her real name) checked into a private hospital for routine gynaecological surgery late last year and a few days later, the surgeon rang with the good news that she did not have cancer. But the doctor from Norwest ...
Sydney nurse who took photo of patient's genitals gets off scot free because ...   9news.com.au
Intimate photo nightmare exposes privacy gap in NSW   Sydney Morning Herald
Norwest Private hospital nurse took explicit photo of a woman's genitalia and ...   Daily Mail

all 4 news articles »

Doctors plead for pregnant refugee to be sent from Nauru to Australia for birth
The Guardian
Senior neonatologist Dr Andrew Watkins says that in addition to a neonatologist, management of a sick baby requires competent nursing staff, working and reliable equipment, established protocols and backups that 'simply are not there' on Nauru.
Doctors demand pregnant asylum seeker be flown to Australia   Washington Post
Fears for pregnant woman on Nauru   Sky News Australia
pregnant asylum seeker facing difficult birth on Nauru   ABC Online

all 16 news articles »

It's true. Why dogs really are man's best friend
The New Daily
The little science we have so far suggests dogs can make us healthier, with even more powerful benefits currently under research. The latest from Sweden is a reliable new study that suggests dogs protect children from asthma. Toddlers who grow up with ...
Owning a dog may protect your kids from an exhausting chronic disease   Business Insider Australia
Exposure To Pets Lowers Asthma Risk in Children   SMN Weekly (blog)
Having a pet dog could reduce asthma risk   Seating Chair
Bills Insider (blog)
Examiner.com
International Business Times AU
all 65 news articles »

Malaria: research finds eradication more difficult than previously thought
ABC Online
ELEANOR HALL: Australian research has found that eradicating malaria could be far more difficult than previously thought. The researchers have discovered that 80 per cent of infections are the result of relapses. That's significant because the drugs ...
Relapsing infections could challenge malaria eradication   HealthCanal.com (press release) (blog)
To eliminate malaria in the Asia-Pacific we need to target recurrent infections   The Conversation AU
Malaria parasite hides undetected in the liver for long time before ...   News-Medical.net
Radio New Zealand
Medical News Today
EurekAlert (press release)
all 21 news articles »

Young adults more envious than older adults
News-Medical.net
"Mirror, mirror, on the wall - who's the fairest of them all?" New research doesn't have an answer to that. But it does give clues as to who is the "enviest" and would have been more likely to pester (and fester) with the question in the first place ...
We Envy People Our Own Age, Often For Their Looks, Reveals Study   NDTV
There's at least one deadly sin we do less as we age   Washington Post
Young people are more likely to feel jealous than any other age group, says study   The Independent
PsychCentral.com (blog)
Daily Mail
all 12 news articles »

Pharmaceutical Processing

Study evaluates effectiveness of antiretroviral treatment in HIV-infected children
News-Medical.net
A study led by Louise Kuhn, PhD, professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, evaluated whether HIV-infected children in South Africa who had achieved viral suppression with one antiretroviral treatment could ...

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