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The Gympie Regional Council has welcomed the Federal Government’s commitment of $24 million for upgrades to the Bruce Highway.
It is the first part of the $250 million Bruce Highway safety package to upgrade 35 black spots between Caboolture and Curra.
Work is expected to begin in June and will include new signage, line markings and a [...]

Washington, September 16 (ANI): Canadian researchers have established a link between personality, survival, and reproductive success by carrying out a study on male bighorn sheep.

Denis Reale, a professor in the Department [...]

New Delhi, Sep.14 (ANI): Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday rebutted criticism of her government’s efforts on preparations for the Commonwealth Games to be held in the national capitalext year.

Reacting to Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) president Mike Fennell’s concerns about the organizing committee’s ability to deliver, Dikshit said that she had not received or [...]

Washington, Aug 29 (ANI): Pop singer Christina Aguilera paid an emotional tribute to her hubby Jordan Bratman in a recent TV interview, crediting him for helping her overcome her abusive past.

Aguilera, 28, and music marketing executive Bratman, 32, who are parents to 19-month-old son Max, will be married four years in November.

And the singer insists [...]

Melbourne, August 25 (ANI): An American study suggests that media multi-taskers who like watching YouTube, following Twitter, writing e-mail, and talking on the phone are generally not very good at any of their tasks.

Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, the study was led by researchers at Stanford University.

In their [...]

London, Aug 24 (ANI): In a unique form of art, a radiologist in Hong Kong presents scanned images of various parts of human body as pictures in galleries.

Kai-hung Fung uses 3D computed tomography to picture the many organs of his patients and claims that he makes it look as real as possible by avoiding using [...]

Washington, Aug.21 (ANI): An expert on South and Central Asia has welcomed the holding of the second presidential elections in Afghanistan, saying it is an important sign-if not of progress, not only for Afghanistan, but also for Pakistan and the United States.

According to Daniel Markey of [...]

London, Aug 21 (ANI): From animals to humans, everybody requires a good night sleep. However, the function of sleep still remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of science, say researchers.

While many theories suggest that sleep helps in brain “maintenance” – including memory consolidation and pruning- reverse damage from oxidative stress suffered while awake and [...]

London, Aug 18(ANI): Tim Nielsen, the coach of Australian cricket team, has said the team must have some fun and embrace the intense build-up to the fifth and final Test match of the Ashes series, starting on Thursday.

“I think the most important thing from our perspective is we don’t run away from the fact it [...]

London, July 15 (ANI): Reacting for the first time after a spellbinding climax in the Cardiff Test, coach Andy Flower has said that Australian skipper Ricky Ponting by accusing the England team of delaying tactics, is trying to deflect attention from Australia’s failure to take the wicket they needed to go ahead in the Ashes [...]

Washington, July 14 (ANI): Outgoing Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s Political Action Committee raised almost 733,000 dollars during the first six months of 2009, out of which the fundraising committee had 450,000 dollars in cash on hand, according to new filings with the Federal Election Commission.

“It was a great first half. Just to put it [...]

Kuala Lumpur, July 14 (ANI): The cast of the musical ‘The Merchants of Bollywood’, based on the true story of choreographer Vaibhavi Merchant, is set to kick off its Asian tour with its first performance in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, tonight.

The Australian production is written and directed by Toby Gough, with choreography by Merchant herself.

The show [...]

London, July 11 (ANI): Want to make sure that your wallet gets returned, in case you lose it by any chance? Well, then obtain a photograph of the cutest baby you can find, and ensure that it is prominently displayed in your wallet, according to a study.

Psychologists have found that if people find a [...]

Washington, July 11 (ANI): A reporter behind the controversial G-8 photo, which depicts U.S. President Barack Obama seemingly checking out a woman’s rear, has now lent some clarity to it.

“There has been interest in a certain photo of the president during this photo-op, and I have mentioned what I saw from my perspective to [...]

Toronto, July 5 (ANI): US President Barack Obama is more popular with Canadians than any domestic politician, a new poll has found.

According to the Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey, nearly three-quarters of Canadians think that the U.S. President is doing an “excellent” or “good” job, while 16 percent said Obama was doing a fair job. Only [...]

Washington, July 1 (ANI): Scientists at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden have suggested that toxic algal blooms are created when aggressive algae kill and injure their competitors in order to absorb the nutrients they contain.

“The behaviour of the algae can be compared to that of blood-sucking insects,” said Per Jonsson of the Department of [...]

London, Jun 30 (ANI): Brit taxpayers had to dole out 250,000 pounds for a makeover of Princess Beatrice’s university digs, stated a bill revealed by the Queen on June 29.

The fund was used to redecorate a private four-bed apartment at St James’s Palace for [...]

Sydney, June 29 (ANI): An Australian experiment with native plant seeds has raised hopes for self-sustaining human colonies in space, with the seeds, taken into space last year, showing no signs of “fatigue” or damage after surviving more than 28,000 orbits of the [...]

Islamabad, June 28 (ANI): Pakistan’s Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman, has said that indigenously made JF-17 Thunder fighter aircrafts would start flying by this year-end.

Speaking at a function at the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) base in Mushaf in Sargodha, Air Chief Marshal Suleman said the JF-17 Thunder programme is [...]

Washington June 28 (ANI): Can music really make us close-minded and prejudiced? Yes, at least that’s what Kansas State researchers claim.

A study of the behaviours elicited from the musical lyrics of common songs has revealed that listening to patriotic songs may make us close-minded and prejudiced while children’s songs like “Itsy Bitsy Spider” and “Row, [...]