Month: June 2021

Video shows a German nursery school worker throwing playing cards through small slits. Michael Wlotzka said that he started doing trick shots in March last year, just as Germany was entering COVID-19 lockdown. The tricks […]

An intense search for a 2-year-old boy ended successfully after police in Michigan used a helicopter with thermal imaging to locate the child, who had wandered into the woods. The boy’s father called police on […]

In a 2000 release, recording artist Nelly rapped: “I’m draftin’ ’em outta high school straight into the pros.” That was a reference to a then-growing trend among prep basketball stars: Bypassing college and entering the […]

WASHINGTON — Facebook’s success is legendary, but it’s now facing serious rivals on various fronts. The social network’s worldwide ad revenue topped $84 billion in 2020. Just 11 years earlier, the company was earning $764 million in […]

BRISBANE, Australia — Australian farmers are forecast to get within one percent of a record crop planting on the back of healthy rainfall and high prices. Rabobank on June 2 released its 2021-2022 Winter Crop Outlook, which forecasts […]

HOBART, Australia — Australian state of Tasmania will review aircraft use in the state’s vast wilderness World Heritage area and seek to involve Aboriginal people in the region’s future more effectively. The state government has released […]

PERTH, Australia — Western Australia has received its first repatriation flight from India amid concerns about a fresh Covid-19 hotel quarantine breach. The flight arrived from New Delhi on June 2, carrying 134 passengers. They have been […]

BRISBANE, Australia — The Queensland government will join the coronavirus vaccine drive in private aged care amid concerns about the speed of the federal government’s rollout. The federal Department of Health has administered 72,772 vaccine doses […]

CANBERRA, Australia — Australian scientists are set to help build one of the world’s most powerful ground-based telescopes, which will be able to peer back into the early universe. The new technology will produce images three […]

CANBERRA, Australia — Energy, security, climate, and the global economy will be on the agenda when Prime Minister Scott Morrison attends the G7-plus conference in the United Kingdom next week. The UK has invited Australia, India, South Korea, […]