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Birds too can build fireproof homes
Washington, July 11 (ANI): Its not just humans, birds can also build fireproof homes, say Japanese researchers at Kyushu University in Fukuoka.
To woo females, male great bowerbirds of northern Australia build bowers that are not only attractive, but also fire resistant.
These bowers have two walls of twigs partially flanking a six-foot-long passageway that the birds [...]
El Nino – El Nino 2009 – El Nini Effect – El Nino conditions return to affect weather
El Nino – El Nino 2009 – El Nini Effect – El Nino conditions return to affect weather
WASHINGTON (AP) — El Nino is back.
Government scientists said Thursday that the periodic warming of water in the tropical Pacific Ocean, which can affect weather around the world, has returned.
The Pacific had been in what is called a [...]
Australia’s Wesfarmers sees 59% fall in coal prices
SYDNEY, April 20 (Reuters) – Australian coal-to-groceries conglomerate Wesfarmers Ltd (WES.AX) expects new contract prices for steel-making coal from its Curragh mine in northern Australia to fall about 59 percent, the company said on Monday. The fall is in line with the benchmark price of between $70-$72 a tonne set by miner Xstrata in [...]
Lewis Hamilton will not let Pussycat Doll girlfriend drive him
London, Mar 28 (ANI): Formula 1 ace Lewis Hamilton says that he will never let his Pussycat Doll girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger drive him around.
Hamilton, 24, admits that 30-year-old Scherzinger is “quite good” at map reading, but he still prefers to do the driving.
“I always drive whether we are in her car or mine. She knows [...]
Australia’s 3rd richest man selling world’s largest open yacht due to financial woes
London, January 19 (ANI): The global financial crisis has not even spared multibillionaires, as Australia’s third richest man James Packer deciding to put up his 50million-dollar yacht up for sale, postpone delivery of a 60million-dollar private jet, and leave a swimming pool complex at his family property half-built.
The 41-year-old, who once happened to be the [...]
Now, blue car-shaped UFO hoons over Australia
Melbourne, Jan 18 (ANI): In yet another incident of UFO sightings, a mysterious blue car-shaped UFO has been spotted flying across the sky over northern Australia.
Amateur photographer Mark Schmutter, who claims to have taken the snaps of the mystifying object, says that it looked like a car.
“It does look like a car but what would [...]
