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A healthy group of captive Tasmanian devils will soon be roaming freely on an island off Tasmania’s east coast.
Scientists from Tasmania’s Save the Devil Program have hand picked 80 captive male and female devils of all ages for release on Maria Island.
It is the first time the program has released healthy captive devils into the [...]

London, March 16 (ANI): Michael Barrett, the man who taped sportscaster Erin Andrews in various stages of undress, has been jailed for two and a half years.
Using a modified peep-hole, Barrett had videotaped the ESPN reporter at a Tennessee hotel.
The divorced insurance executive, 48, accepted the charge of stalking last December after prosecutors accused [...]

The Federal Opposition is calling on the Government to pay for a safety inspection for every one of the more than 1 million homes that have been insulated under the bungled Commonwealth scheme.
The Government will pay for safety checks for all 50,000 homes with new foil insulation to ensure roofs are not electrified, and 150,000 [...]

Former Premier Peter Beattie has given evidence at the corruption trial of a Brisbane businessman.
Harold Warner Shand, 58, is accused of corruptly paying a secret $60,000 commission to former Beattie Government Minister Gordon Nuttall.
Shand has pleaded not guilty.
The Crown alleges the payment was made as “insurance” for Shand’s business interests.
Mr Beattie was called to give [...]

The RACV is promising minimal delays in cleaning up flood and rain damage in regional Victoria.
The company is expecting to get more than 10,000 insurance claims state-wide.
But claims manager John Simpson says it is too early to tell how many claims are being made.
“Just at the moment – we’ve got huge volumes [of claims] coming [...]

MAYWOOD, Ill. — Prosecutors say the owner of an apartment building in a Chicago suburb had his maintenance man set it on fire, killing seven people, because he wanted to collect the insurance money.
Prosecutors say the owner told police he wanted the building burned when the children living there were at school. Instead, [...]

London, September 17 (ANI): A beautiful passer-by is a major distraction for male drivers, a new UK study has found.

According to a research conducted by AA Insurance, seven out of ten male drivers admit to being distracted by attractive women passer-by.

Also, a survey by the [...]

London, September 16 (ANI): An electronic nose foil some people’s attempt to deceive their doctors by telling them that they are non-smokers, in order to get cheaper life insurance.

Paul Thomas at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, has revealed that their invention is a tweaked form of a commercially available e-nose. [...]

London, Sep 10 (ANI): US President Barack Obama became the first president to be called ‘a liar’ in front of a joint session of Congress by a Republican senator.

South Carolina senator Joe Wilson pointing angrily at the President, blurted at the top of his voice: “You lie!” when Obama was addressing the Congress on health [...]

Washington, Sep 10 (ANI): South Carolina Republican Joe Wilson has apologized for heckling and calling President Barack Obama ‘a liar’.

“This evening I let my emotions get the best of me when listening to the President’s remarks regarding the coverage of illegal immigrants in the Health Care Bill. While I disagree with the President’s statement, [...]

London, Sep 9 (ANI): Original Walt Disney drawings have been recovered from an attic office in Blackpool, which could be worth up to 12,000 pounds each.

The 15 mint condition black and white and colour drawings were in the middle of hundreds of files gathered in over a century [...]

Guwahati, Sep 9 (ANI): As experts claim that a big earthquake might hit Assam region shortly, locals are rushing to get their houses insured while the authorities are conducting sensitization campaigns as a precautionary measure.

The region was rocked by four earthquakes in past three weeks, including a tremor with 5.9 magnitude, the biggest in [...]

London, Sept 8 (ANI): Most domestic accidents happen on a Monday – thanks to hangovers.

And the mishaps include starting fires with hair straighteners, letting a bath overflow and spilling hot drinks on to laptop computers.

According to data for the last three years published by Halifax Home Insurance, a third more accidents happen on Monday morning, [...]

Sydney, Sep. 6 (ANI): The Federation of Indian Students of Australia (FISA) on Sunday urged the Australian Government to take steps for the welfare of students who are stranded after the closure of private colleges.

The FISA blamed Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard for failing to stop “the spin on the state of affairs” within [...]

London, Sep 4 (ANI): The Internet has been touted as one of the most useful tool for the last two decades, and has had a huge impact on our lives, but along with its benefits, the World Wide Web has also had some negative impacts on people.

While tasks [...]

Washington, Sep.2 (ANI): US President Barack Obama’s approval rating on health care has dropped six points since July to 40 percent, and now more Americans, 47 percent, disapprove of his handling of health care, according to a new CBS News poll taken between Aug 27 – 31.

As the president’s poll numbers sink on the [...]

New Delhi, Sep 2 (ANI): Malaysian High Commissioner to India has advised his fellow countrymen to take extra precaution as the spate of fatal Indian road accidents involving them is worrying.

High Commissioner Tan Seng Sung said recent accidents, where Malaysians lost their lives showed that travellers need to be more careful when planning their [...]

London, August 28 (ANI): A new study by an international team of researchers from France, South Africa, Germany, Israel and the UK has confirmed that 80,000-year-old shell beads found in caves in North Africa represent some of the earliest evidence of the use of personal ornamentation, which also [...]

Kimberly Johnston | Topeka Woman Kimberly Johnson | Kimberly | Johnson | Kimberly Johnson Hit and Run Accident
TOPEKA : A Topeka woman Kimberly Johnson, 26,faces charges in connection with a hit and run accident, was cited for inattentive driving, failure to provide insurance, leaving the scene of an injury accident, failure to report an accident, [...]

Srinagar, Aug 18 (ANI): The tourism sector of Jammu and Kashmir has welcomed the initiative of the state government to device an insurance scheme to those involved in tourism trade. This sector will be compensated for the losses borne by them, if any.

The tourism industry in the region was affected due [...]