Everything you need to know about Darwin: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Darwin: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Sydney, May 24 (ANI): Veteran Australian sports commentator David Morrow will not be sacked by ABC Radio for his racist remarks, but will be banned from working during this season's marquee rugby league events so that he can complete training and cultural awareness programs.
Sydney, May 9 (ANI): Veteran Rugby League caller and the voice of Rugby League for ABC Radio David Morrow has been suspended by the national broadcaster management over his racist comments on Darwin Aborigines, pending a probe into the alleged racist remarks.
Washington, April 18 (ANI): Genome sequencing of a historic fish has provided a wealth of information on the genetic changes that accompanied the adaptation from an aquatic environment to land.
Sydney, Apr. 8 (ANI): Chinese President Xi Jinping wants to take the relationship with Australia 'to a new level'.
Sydney, Apr. 2 (ANI): News Corporation chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch has labelled Australian Labor Party's language on foreign workers 'disgraceful and racist'.
London, Mar 25 (ANI): Charles Darwin watched his beloved daughter-in-law die an agonising death at childbirth, it has been revealed.
London, March 13 (ANI): European scientists have found the answer to why, for some animals, it's the father rather than the mother that takes care of their young.
Melbourne, Mar. 11 (ANI): A topless barmaid has claimed that she was unfairly dismissed after she refused to change kegs in the cool room in her undies.
Quito, March 9 (IANS) Ecuador's Colombian coach Reinaldo Rueda called up 23 players for a World Cup qualifier against Paraguay here March 26.
Mohali, March 6 (IANS) It took a retired history professor two decades of meticulous effort to bring William Shakespeare closer to Punjab. Eighty-two-year Surjit Hans has finally translated all the works, including 38 plays, of the 16th century Bard of Avon into Punjabi.
Washington, February 26 (ANI): Its may seem unrealistic when in 'Spiderman 2', the superhero uses his webbing to bring a runaway train to a standstill moments before it plummets over the end of the track.
Washington, Feb 22 (ANI): While contemplating how humans learned to speak, Charles Darwin wrote "the sounds uttered by birds offer in several respects the nearest analogy to language," in "The Descent of Man" (1871).
Melbourne, Feb 12 (ANI): Just like the boxing legend he is named after, Cassius has regained the title of the biggest saltwater crocodile in captivity.
Quito, Feb 6 (IANS/EFE) A court handed down a four-year prison term to a German citizen caught trying to smuggle four iguanas out of the Galapagos islands, authorities at Ecuador's Galapagos National Park said.
Washington, Feb 1 (ANI): Scientists have decoded the genetic blueprint of the rock pigeon, revealing secrets about pigeons' Middle East origins, feral pigeons' kinship with escaped racing birds and how mutations give pigeons traits like feather head crests.
Melbourne, December 28 (ANI): A golfer, who wore a lime green mankini while playing on a golf course in the Northern territory, turned heads in his vibrant dress on Boxing Day.
London, Dec 21 (IANS) A biodiversity map drawn up by British naturalist Russel Wallace in 1876 depicting how life evolved on our continents has been updated after 136 years.
London, December 16 (ANI): Galapagos tortoise, who's number had slipped down to merely 15 in the world in the 1970s, have risen to 1,000 on the islands thanks to a successful breeding programme.
A streetside fish-seller whose chant made him a YouTube star won a recording contract - and the attention of illegal immigration inspectors in the UK.
Melbourne, Dec 11 (ANI): Over the past 26 years, Australia's wildest party Darwin's annual Hookers Ball has outraged and amused onlookers in equal measure.
Washington, Dec. 11 (ANI): An incident involving a monkey going loose in the parking lot of IKEA home furnishings store in Toronto has gone viral on micro-blogging site Twitter.
New Delhi, Dec. 7 (ANI): An Indian-born doctor, who has made Darwin, in Australia's Northern Territory, her home, and an anti-poverty campaigner who founded an NGO in Mumbai to support the education of young Indian children from less privileged backgrounds, are among the finalists of the Australian of the Year Awards 2013.
Washington, December 7 (ANI): New research has shed new light on what Charles Darwin famously called "an abominable mystery": the apparently sudden appearance and rapid spread of flowering plants in the fossil record.
Sydney, Dec 2 (IANS) A 12-year-old boy was taken away by a crocodile while he was swimming in Australia's tropical Northern Territory.
New Delhi, Nov 28 (IANS) The Guwahati?based Career CliniQ, which offers career counselling to students in the northeast, hopes to win clients in the capital and other north Indian cities too through its new centre inaugurated here Wednesday.
Washington, Nov. 11 (ANI): Charles Darwin, the 19th-century British scientist who laid the foundations for the theory of evolution by natural selection, logged in 4,000 write-in votes in Georgia's 10th Congressional District.
Washington, Nov. 11 (ANI): Charles Darwin, the 19th-century British scientist who laid the foundations for the theory of evolution by natural selection, logged in 4,000 write-in votes in Georgia's 10th Congressional District.
London, Nov. 11 (ANI): Charles Darwin, the 19th-century British scientist who laid the foundations for the theory of evolution by natural selection, logged in 4,000 write-in votes in Georgia's 10th Congressional District.
Sydney, Nov. 2 (ANI): In a revelation that likens Mitchell Starc to George Clooney's frequent-flyer-earning character in the Hollywood blockbuster film 'Up in the Air', the Australian pacer is set to play for the first Test at the Gabba next week after having astonishingly spent only seven nights at home in the past eight months.
London, October 11 (ANI): Elizabeth Taylor allegedly slept with Ronald Reagan when she was a teenager and enjoyed a threesome with President John F. Kennedy and actor Robert Stack.
Sydney, Oct 1 (IANS) A man in Australia, asked to wait 10 hours for a doctor to fix his sliced lip, rather opted to use dental floss and a sewing needle to do it himself.
London, Sep 27 (IANS) Fungi and seaweed collected by Charles Darwin on the Beagle's voyage to South America in 1832-33 have been found still wrapped in an 1828 newspaper by a librarian at Cambridge University.
Sydney, Aug 25 (ANI): Former Australian ambassador to Indonesia, John McCarthy, has said that Australians should not be made to think that they have to choose between the new ties with China and the military alliance with the US, and called for a more balanced approach in handling of relations with Asia.
Dubai, Aug 24 (ANI): Australian opener David Warner has said his team is ready to face the spin test in the UAE in limited-over games against Afghanistan and Pakistan and on pitches expected to help spin bowling.
Melbourne, Aug 24 (ANI): Australia is considering promoting skipper Michael Clarke to No.3 for their one-day international match against minnows Afghanistan on Saturday in Sharjah.
Melbourne, Aug 22 (ANI): Australia's skipper Michael Clarke firmly believes that wicketkeeper Brad Haddin has been passing through a tough phase, but still has plenty to offer to the cricket team.
Sydney, Aug 17 (ANI): Queensland paceman Alister McDermott, 21, is all set to follow his father, Craig McDermott, onto the world stage after Australia's fast-bowling injury crisis deepened.
Sydney, Aug 11 (ANI): Australia's vice captain Shane Watson has asked his fellow cricketers to start putting their England one-day disappointment behind them and focus on what lies ahead.
Sydney, Aug 9(ANI): The head of the United States Marines has tried to play down apprehensions that American troop build-up in Australia is an act of showing off their military strength.
Sydney, Aug. 5 (ANI): Australian cricketer Pat Cummins, who is out with a side strain, is aiming to return for the Twenty20 series against Pakistan next month.
Melbourne, July 30 (ANI): An Australian man may be flown to a specialist burns unit at the Royal Adelaide Hospital after a party trick involving setting off firecrackers between his butts went badly wrong.
Washington, July 17 (ANI): Researchers have provided evolutionary reasons on why body language is still a rich and vital part of our communication.
Every few weeks, one needs to step aside from the chaotic hurly burly of modern life, quieten one's heart, and focus on deep matters of the spirit or, as we scientific types like to say, 'evil wacko cults'.
Washington, July 11 (ANI): Researchers have provided evolutionary reasons on why body language is still a rich and vital part of our communication.
Melbourne, July 6 (ANI): Australian police officers from the city of Darwin managed to escape with their dignity intact after being mistaken for strippers by women at a hen's party.
Melbourne, July 3 (IANS) An Australian walked into a film set and auditioned for a role in a thriller, just days after he allegedly beheaded his neighbour, a media report said Tuesday.
Beijing, June 28 (ANI): Chinese state-controlled media has praised Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard for refusing to met Tibetian spiritual leader Dalai Lama, according to a report.
Washington, June 22 (ANI): Cancer is subject to the evolutionary processes laid out by Charles Darwin in his concept of natural selection, according to researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center.
London, June 16 (ANI): The male club-winged manakin, the only bird known to sing with its wings, contains some secrets of its performance in its bones, researchers have discovered.
Melbourne, June 3 (IANS) Anticipating hardships in finding skilled workers onshore, the largest beef producer of the continent, Australia Agriculture Co (AAco), may recruit hundreds of Indian workers for its new abattoir in the country's north.
London, May 20 (ANI): Marilyn Monroe had an emotional showdown with America's former First Lady Jackie Kennedy over her reported romance with the President, a month before she died in 1962, according to an explosive new book.
London, May 18 (ANI): Celebrity psychic John Cohan is set to shock fans of the late Elizabeth Taylor by revealing the lovechild the movie icon paid an Irish family to bring up as its daughter was the product of a tryst with a Hollywood studio carpenter.
Sydney, May 16 (ANI): China has cricitised the United States for setting up a new military base in Australia, and accused both countries of having a "Cold War mentality.
Canberra, April 27 (ANI): Australian Defence Minister Stephen Smith has said that it is impossible to contain India and China.
London, Apr 24 (ANI): Sky News Chief John Ryley has admitted accessing the computer of "back-from-the-dead" canoeist John Darwin and his wife Anne, claiming to be acting in the public interest. There is, however, no such defence under computer misuse laws.
Sydney, Apr 24 (ANI): Former Australian prime minister Malcolm Fraser has said that the new American marine 'base' near Darwin is a mistake, and added that his nation's grovelling to the US is affecting relations with Asia.
London, Apr 19 (ANI): The oceans were loaded with life 600 million years ago, but the simple, soft-bodied creatures would have been hardly recognizable as the ancestors of almost all animals on Earth today, researchers say.
London, Apr 8 (ANI): James Murdoch and satellite broadcaster BSkyB board knew about evidence of illegal email hacking at Sky News 'a number of months ago', senior sources have disclosed.
London, April 6 (ANI): Senior executives at Sky News reportedly allowed a journalist to illegally hack the emails of "Canoe Man" John Darwin, who has been accused of faking his own death in 2002 to claim insurance money.
Melbourne, Apr 5 (ANI): An airline pilot in the Northern Territory, Australia was forced to turn around the plane after a snake appeared slithering from the dashboard.
Sydney, April 4 (IANS) The first batch of about 200 US marines have arrived in Australia's Darwin city as part of a defence deal, Australian Defence Minister Stephen Smith announced Wednesday.
Washington, Mar 27(ANI): The United States and Australia are planning to augment military ties, including possible drone attacks from a coral atoll in the Indian Ocean and increased U.S. naval access to Australian ports.
Washington, Feb 14 (ANI): A new study has confirmed that life on Earth originated on land in a "warm little pond" and not in the oceans - just as Charles Darwin said more than 140 years ago.
Canberra (Australia), Feb.6 (ANI): Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has said a proposed legislation forcing Qantas to maintain its base in Australia and perform the majority of heavy aircraft maintenance and training at home, would seriously threaten the airline's future.
Canberra (Australia), Feb.6 (ANI): Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has said a proposed legislation forcing Qantas to maintain its base in Australia and perform the majority of heavy aircraft maintenance and training at home, would seriously threaten the airline's future.
Johannesburg, Jan 27 (ANI): An astronomer has said that while we could find life outside of Earth, it is unlikely that it would be intelligent or multi-cellular.
Johannesburg, Jan 27 (ANI): An astronomer has said that while we could find life outside of Earth, it is unlikely that it would be intelligent or multi-cellular.
London, Jan 17 (ANI): Scientists in Britain have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years.
Melbourne, Jan 11 (ANI): A 13-year-old Darwin boy has found what is believed to be a 500-year-old Portuguese swivel gun on a Northern Territory beach.
Sydney, Jan 9 (ANI): A woman in Australia couldn't believe her eyes when she found a 1.7-metre saltwater crocodile in her lounge room.
Washington, Dec 28 (ANI): In a new study, scientists have found the evidence that the transition between fish and amphibians occurred in the humid, wooded floodplains.
Washington, Dec 14 (ANI): A researcher has now defied the popular notion that certain emotions are biologically basic, saying that expressions are not inborn emotional signals that are automatically expressed on the face.
Beijing, Dec 1 (ANI): China has criticized the United State's plans to establish a permanent military presence in Australia, accusing Washington of perpetuating a 'Cold War mentality'.
London, Nov 20 (ANI): Struggling to get his singing career started, a homeless and hungry Frank Sinatra acted in a porn film for 100 dollars, according to a new biography.
Canberra, Nov 19 (ANI): Increasing the presence of US military in Darwin is unlikely to make Australia more of a terrorist target than it already is, an expert has claimed.
Canberra, Nov 17 (ANI): Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has said that American military in his nation is a 'contingency', but not aimed at China or any other country in particular.
New York, Nov.16 (ANI): President Obama has arrived in Australia with a plan to announce that the United States hopes to use Darwin as a new center of its operations in Asia as it seeks to reassert itself in the region and grapple with China's rise.
Canberra (Australia), Nov.16 (ANI): Sensitive details of US Secret Service agents and preparations for President Barack Obama's visit to Australia have been stored in an old van parked at a Canberra hotel.
Washington, November 12(ANI): The US is planning to set up a military base in Australia to counter the growing Chinese threat.
Washington, November 12(ANI): The US is planning to set up a military base in Australia to counter the growing Chinese threat.
Melbourne, Oct 17 (ANI): A woman, who became lost on a remote island off Australia's northern coast, has revealed that she had to drink her own urine and suck the moisture from green ants to survive.
Melbourne, Oct 10 (ANI): A naked drunk driver, charged with high-range drink driving, spat on the cops when he was being arrested in Darwin.
New Delhi, Sep.17 (ANI): Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Saturday launched a solar car made by students of Delhi Technical University (DTU) that is scheduled to participate in the World Solar Challenge in Australia.
London, Sept 01 (ANI): Researchers have sequenced the genome of green anole lizard that may offer insights into how the genomes of humans, mammals, and their reptilian counterparts have evolved since mammals and reptiles parted ways 320 million years ago.
Melbourne, Aug 21 (ANI): An Australian saltwater crocodile has officially been recognised by the Guinness World Records as the world's largest croc in captivity.
Washington, Aug 19 (ANI): Republican presidential candidate and Texas Governor Rick Perry has said that the theory of evolution has 'some gaps in it.'
Washington, August 17 (ANI): Since Charles Darwin's time, scientists have speculated that the solid Earth might be expanding or contracting. But now, a new NASA study has essentially laid those speculations to rest.
Washington, August 8 (ANI): Archaeopteryx, the legendary crow-sized creature long known as the earliest known bird on Earth, may not have been a bird at all, a new study has revealed.
Washington, July 28 (ANI): Archaeopteryx, the legendary crow-sized creature long known as the earliest known bird on Earth, may not have been a bird at all, a new study has revealed.
London, July 6 (ANI): A survey has found that Pippa Middleton is one of the top three celebrities Britons would most like to see on a banknote.
Washington, July 1 (ANI): Scientists have found that sea urchins see with their entire body despite having no eyes at all.
Canberra, June 23 (ANI): An expert from Australia's leading authority on volcanic ash has said no jet engine would have been shut down by the ash cloud that brought domestic aviation to a halt recently in the country's southeast region.
London, June 22 (ANI): A first edition copy of Charles Darwin's 'Insectivorous Plants' book has been returned to an Australia library after 122 years.
Melbourne, June 22 (ANI): Guests at a corporate golf day have revealed that they were "groped" by two female promotional models and "had their faces pushed on to the girls' breasts" too at a Darwin golf course.
Washington, June 15 (ANI): While ecologists generally accept the premise of Darwin's hypothesis, which states that the struggle for existence is stronger between more closely related species than those distantly related, a new study has provided 'strong support' for the theory.
Melbourne, May 27 (ANI): A prostitute in northern Australia has been sentenced to eight months rigorous imprisonment for allegedly robbing a takeaway shop and then stripping while she absconded from the scene.
Melbourne, May 24 (ANI): A vet in Darwin is gearing up to deal with another alcohol-fueled avian vertigo this year, as many lorikeets were reported falling from the sky in a drunken state.
Washington, May 24 (ANI): Scientists have announced their picks for the top 10 new species described in 2010.
London, May 8 (ANI): It has emerged that the very travels that inspired Charles Darwin to discover his theory of evolution may also have led to one of the many illnesses that plagued him for decades and ultimately led to his death.
Kuala Lumpur, May 7 (ANI): Malaysian boxers will undergo intensive training in India in September ahead of the South East Asian (SEA) Games in Indonesia in November.
