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Sydney, Feb 16 - Children victimised by sexual abuse are at increased risk of suicide and accidental fatal drug overdose later in life, says a new study.Margaret Cutajar, psychologist in forensic behavioural science at Monash University in Melbourne, and co-authors James Ogloff and Paul Mullen, both ...

Sydney, Feb 16 - An advanced system that will allow speech recognition in spaces filled with other voices, noise and echoes is being developed by an international team of researchers.Roberto Togneri, professor at the University of Western Australia -, said current systems turned a speaker's words i ...

Wellington, Feb 16 - India is a priority relationship for New Zealand, Prime Minister John Key said Tuesday in welcoming Rahul Gandhi, great-grandson of his country's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.A member of the Indian parliament, Gandhi is visiting New Zealand as the inaugural Sir Edmund ...

Wellington, Feb 16 - A former New Zealand florist, who changed the details of her competitors on Google map so that customers could not get to their shops, has been sentenced to 100 hours of community service.Kendra Drinkwater, 40, who ran a company called Napier Florist from her home, committed the ...

Melbourne, Feb 16 - Cleaning up her desk proved to be a $2.5 million bonanza for a woman in this Australian city when she found a five-month-old winning lottery ticket.The woman bought the ticket for the Superdraw Sep 12 last year but she was under the impression that she had misplaced it. 'I was ju ...

Sydney, Feb 15 - The Australian hockey team's travel plans for the New Delhi World Cup remain unchanged in spite of Saturday's terror bombing in western Indian city Pune whereas Cricket Australia - awaits the advice of its private security agency before clearing the players for the Indian Premier Le ...

Sydney, Feb 15 - A 13-year-old Australian schoolboy was charged with murder Monday for stabbing a 12-year-old fellow pupil to death in a playground fight at a Catholic school in Brisbane.Police found the suspect near the school after the early morning incident. He needed hospital treatment for a cut ...

Hamilton -, Feb 15 - There has been an over three-fold increase in Indians getting student visas to study in New Zealand in the past five years, authorities said.As many as 9,591 Indians were issued students visas for the financial year 2008-09 as compared to 2,972 for the year 2004-05, said Immigra ...

Sydney, Feb 15 - Five Sydney men jailed for stockpiling chemicals and plotting a terrorist attack were supporters of Osama bin Laden and showed no remorse during their trial, a court was told Monday.They smiled at each other when the verdicts were read. The men, aged 25-44, were given sentences of 1 ...

Perth, Feb 13 - An Indian student, accused of killing two of his fellow countrymen in Australia following a fight over money, will be presented before a court here Saturday.The 22-year-old man has been charged with two counts of murder and will face the East Perth Magistrate's Court in the morning, ...

Wellington, Feb 13 - The decision by New Zealand's largest Sikh temple to hail as martyrs the three men who assassinated Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi has upset some members of the Indian community in Auckland.The temple in Manukau has hung on its walls portraits of Gandhi's bodyguards Satwant ...

Perth, Feb 12 - An Indian student was being questioned here Friday over the death of two Indian brothers after a dispute over money, media reports said.Detective Inspector David Bryson, from the Major Crime Squad, said one of the victims staggered to the nearby St John Ambulance depot seeking medica ...

Sydney, Feb 12 - Most people wouldn't give a second thought to the inner workings of the fish eye. But research by University of Queensland - scientists is unlocking the secrets hidden behind these fishy lenses.Justin Marshall, professor and colleagues from the Sensory Neurobiology Group of UQ Brain ...

Sydney, Feb 12 - Researchers now have a clue as to why peanuts trigger life-threatening allergic reactions, a finding that potentially opens the way to avert such outcomes.'Peanut allergy is a major clinical problem for both children and adults, but what makes peanut allergens life-threatening isn' ...

Melbourne, Feb 11 - Hackers have attacked businesses in this Australian city in response to violence against Indian students, a media report said Thursday.Computers at five Melbourne-based businesses were attacked by a hacker who threatened to attack more companies if the violence continued, ABC Onl ...

Sydney, Feb 11 - There has been a 'negative' shift in the relationship between Australia and India, admitted a senior official Thursday, adding 'there has been damage to our reputation and standing' following the string of attacks on Indians in the country.'There has been a shift and that shift has ...

Melbourne, Feb 10 - A welcome desk has been established for Indian and other international students at the airport here to 'help settle' them, a minister said Wednesday.Victorian Minister for Skills and Workforce Participation Bronwyn Pike said that students will receive a warm welcome at the Intern ...

Wellington, Feb 10 - New Zealand Police hunting the killer of Indian taxi driver Hiren Mohini are putting up a billboard in downtown Auckland, media reports said Wednesday.It is the first time police have used a billboard to appeal for information on a specific crime, the New Zealand Herald reported ...

Canberra, Feb 9 - Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith admitted Tuesday that some of the attacks on Indians in his country were indeed racist in nature and pressed the need to build strong ties with New Delhi.'If any of these attacks have been racist in nature - and it seems clear some of them ...

Canberra, Feb 9 - Emphasizing that Australia needs to treat its ties with India 'like a Test match and work with diligence and dedication', Foreign Minister Stephen Smith admitted Tuesday that attacks on Indians had 'considerably damaged his country's reputation in India and among the Indian people' ...

Wellington, Feb 9 - New Zealand police investigating the murder of an Indian taxi driver in Auckland appealed Tuesday to the city's Asian communities for help in identifying the passenger who stabbed him to death in a frenzied attack.They said inquiries in the city, where nearly 30 percent of the po ...

Sydney, Feb 9 - A forensic pathologist has sounded a worldwide warning of the potential lethal dangers of herbal medicines if taken in large quantities, injected, or combined with prescription drugs.A paper by Roger Byard, pathology professor at the University of Adelaide - outlines the highly toxic ...

Wellington, Feb 9 - New Zealand chief football coach Ricki Herbert said Tuesday that he expects to play World Cup qualifying hero Rory Fallon in next month's friendly against Mexico.Fallon has said he does not care for friendlies and would prefer to help his club Plymouth Argyle which is fighting re ...

Sydney, Feb 8 - British commercial broadcaster ITV was fined by an Australian court after it pleaded guilty to animal cruelty over the televised death of a rat, media reports said Monday.Two contestants in the reality television show 'I'm a Celebrity ...Get Me Out of Here!' killed and cooked a rat ...

Melbourne, Feb 8 - Champions Trophy winners Australia announced an 18-member squad for the hockey World Cup beginning in New Delhi Feb 28.Australia finished runners up in the last two World Cups and were the winners in 1986. The squad selected closely resembles the team which won the Champions Troph ...

Sydney, Feb 8 - Every single moment the brain is forced to process thousands of separate odours from the world around us. Through a new study of honeybees, scientists have discovered the brain has an advanced ability to isolate specific odours and recollect smells.'There is a lot of information comi ...

Wellington, Feb 8 - A New Zealand man's pre-wedding stag night ended with him being arrested after he smashed a shop window with the ball-and-chain that friends attached to his leg during partying, a newspaper reported Monday.It was a 'seriously heavy' ball, Police Sergeant Mel Aitken told the Otag ...

Sydney, Feb 5 - Researchers have achieved yet another milestone in the global quest to produce synthetic silk.They have hand-drawn fine threads of honeybee silk from a 'soup' of silk proteins that they had produced transgenically. These threads were as strong as threads drawn from the honeybee silk ...

Sydney, Feb 5 - Falling fatty acid DHA levels in brain cells activates the rise of zinc levels, killing the cells, says a new study.Researchers at Deakin University believe they have discovered how the omega-3 fatty acid DHA can help prevent brain cells from dying. This finding could have implicatio ...

Sydney, Feb 5 - Children with below average language skills can perform nearly as well as their normally developing peers if their parents make a few simple changes in the way they interact with them.Researchers worked with four and five-year-olds attending pre-schools in Sydney's Mount Druitt area, ...