Tag Archives: Australia

Mystery surrounds the death of cruise ship singer Jackie Kastrinelis. Cops have ruled out murder, but then how did she die? The body of Jackie Kastrinelis, a 24-year-old singer on the Regent Seven Seas Voyager cruise ship was found Sunday morning while the ship was docked in Australia. Local police initially believed this to be a murder and established the ... Read More »

Apple Maps have been sending motorists to bush, the Australian police have issued an official warning against the use of Apple Maps. Police in Australia are urging motorists not to rely on the company’s new maps application after several people using its directions became stranded inside a national park in scorching heat. Authorities in Mildura, Australia say Apple Maps lists ... Read More »

The Australian government has finally come to its senses. After years of testing and preparing a firewall to filter its domestic internet traffic, they have formally abandoned the plan. Officials now say that it will use Interpol’s “worst of” child abuse site list as a way to shield Ozzies from truly awful content. “Blocking the Interpol ‘worst of’ list will ... Read More »

Facebook to some extent makes us all stupid. Yes, it makes us want to brag about everything, which Facebook calls “share”. A 17-year-old girl bragged and posted a picture of a pile of cash got just what she expected. Well, she learned her lesson the hard way. After she had posted the picture of a pile of cash on Facebook, ... Read More »

Japan’s Suzuki Motor said Monday it will recall about 109,000 Swift subcompact cars worldwide, half of them in Japan, to repair a defect that may cause petrol leakage. The cars were produced between September 2010 and last month with 55,146 of them shipped to the domestic market and 53,801 others exported outside the country, including Australia, Mexico, and Europe, a ... Read More »

The topic of Titanic can never be put to rest. After nearly a 100 years, people want to rebuilt the lost gem. An Australian billionaire, Clive Palmer today said that all he wants to do now is to construct Titanic II which will be exact replica of Titanic and will make it’s first voyage by 2016. Palmer, a self-made mining ... Read More »

For an Australian family that a simple snack at the fast food giant Kentucky Fried Chicken turned out to change the course of the their entire life. Fast food giant Kentucky Fried Chicken has been ordered to pay Aus$8 million (US$8.3 million) to an Australian girl who suffered severe brain damage and was paralysed after eating a Twister wrap. Monika ... Read More »