China coal imports to continue affecting global prices: Platts
Source: Chinadaily
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-21 18:49:22 -0700 | travel-news
James O'Connell, the ed ito r-in-chief of Platts' Coal Trade r International, which delivers price assessments for coal trading in the Atlantic and Pacific markets, said that the US in particular will pursue chances to increase its coal exports to...
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Source: Japan Times
Canberra :: Australia | updated 2013-05-21 09:14:09 -0700 | travel-news
A terrible tragedy is unfolding in (fill in the name of your favorite trouble spot)...This (choose from sending troops, air strikes, enforcing a no fly zone, arming rebels) is something...Such is what passes for much of policy advice by some...
Sleep-deprived teen drivers more likely to crash
Source: Fox News
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-23 22:03:27 -0700 | travel-news
Published May 21, 2013 LiveScience Too little sleep increases the risk of car crashes for young drivers, a new study confirms. In the study, drivers ages 17 to 24 who reported sleeping six or fewer hours per night were about...
Gillard urged to ease 'Orwellian' spy laws
Source: The New Zealand Herald
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-20 12:44:21 -0700 | travel-news
Prime Minister Julia Gillard is coming under renewed pressure to ease the wave of draconian powers handed to Australia's domestic spy agency since the September 11 attacks on the United States. The more than 50 laws passed as Australia grew...
Police investigate fatal shopping centre crash in Adelaide
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-20 07:01:23 -0700 | travel-news
A pedestrian was killed and several others injured when a car ploughed into a bank branch at about 2:00pm on Monday afternoon. People in the area described hearing the Mercedes sedan accelerating and its horn blasting, before a loud bang....
Search suspended for helicopter after hoax call
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-20 03:48:42 -0700 | travel-news
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority received a call claiming to be from the chopper pilot just before 1:00 pm. Several aircraft searched bushland where the helicopter was purported to have gone down but found no sign of it...She says the...
Kathy Lette on a brush with the Great White in South Australia
Source: Mail Online UK
Port Lincoln :: Australia | updated 2013-05-18 12:28:43 -0700 | travel-news
18 May 2013 The massive sign that greets disembarking passengers at Adelaide Airport asks: 'What is Australia's deadliest marine creature?' It's illustrated with a terrifying array of teeth-gnashing sharks, sinister- looking stingrays and iridescent, tentacle-trailing, anaphylactic shock-inducing...
Gregg Wallace and John Torode on the best places to eat at Heathrow airport
Source: Mail Online UK
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-18 12:28:40 -0700 | travel-news
About 10 years ago at the airport, there was a Hungry Jack's which is what we'd call Burger King, and that was it! There was nothing else in Bangkok Airport. Now you can find a place, for example, that has...
Singer George Michael gets medical treatment after car crash
Source: DAWN
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-24 03:51:55 -0700 | travel-news
British singer George Michael has received medical treatment after a car crash on Thursday, his publicist said. The 49-year-old former Wham! front man was being treated for minor cuts and bruises after the accident, Michael's spokeswoman said. George Michael was...
Software engineer rides his Vespa scooter 10,000-miles from Adelaide to London
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Adelaide :: Australia | updated 2013-05-23 22:50:19 -0700 | travel-news
It was a proud moment for software engineer Drew Milne of Adelaide when at the end of two years and a journey of 10,000-miles from Adelaide to London he stood up on his Vespa scooter in Trafalgar Square. Drew Milne...
Australia and NZ police crackdown on heavy vehicles
Source: Scoop
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-16 19:05:30 -0700 | travel-news
17 May 2013 Australia and New Zealand Police participate in crackdown on heavy vehicles Police are warning that they will be cracking down on heavy vehicle companies and drivers who operate unsafely...Jon White says that unsafe operation of heavy vehicles...
Truck in bridge drama
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-23 22:59:35 -0700 | travel-news
VicRoads says drivers travelling through the area should seek an alternative route and that traffic in the area is very heavy. Emergency services are at the scene and are working to reopen the freeway before evening peak. A witness told...
Digger claims cover up over Afghan body
Source: Adelaide Now
Adelaide :: Australia | updated 2013-05-16 06:49:35 -0700 | travel-news
The allegations come after Defence Minister Stephen Smith told Parliament that an inquiry had found no maltreatment by the Australians and that the body had not been under Australian control. This is despite the sergeant, who asked not to be...
ASIO's counter-terrorism powers may be scaled back
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-14 16:11:19 -0700 | travel-news
56 Powers given to Australia's intelligence agency to combat terrorism, including the power to detain suspects without charge, could be phased back...Under the changes, agents would no longer be able to hold a terror suspect for up to a week...
Progress sought on drunken driving deaths
Source: Associated Press
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-24 04:17:51 -0700 | travel-news
New approaches are needed to combat drunken driving, which claims the lives of more than a third of the people killed annually on U.S highways and has remained stubbornly high for the past decade and a half, a new report...
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