SYDNEY, April 18 (Xinhua) -- The health authority in Western Australia (WA) has confirmed that one older adult died and two others were hospitalized after being diagnosed with meningococcal disease. "Two cases were caused by serogroup B and one by serogroup W. Sadly one adult has died, and the other two adults are recovering in hospital. The cases were not linked," the WA Department said in a statement on Thursd ..read more

Perth has just had its driest six months on record, while Western Australia sweltered through its hottest summer on record. Those records are remarkable in their own right. But these records are having real consequences. Unlike us, trees and shrubs can't escape the heat and aridity. While we turn up the air conditioning, they bear the full brunt of the changing climate. Our previous research has shown plants are ..read more

Australia's top economists overwhelmingly want Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to scrap a special deal with Western Australia that's set to deliver it an extra A$40 billion in Commonwealth funding by the end of the decade. Albanese pledged to maintain the special treatment for Western Australia in a visit to Perth in February. He even signed a promise on a newspaper front page and a ..read more

SYDNEY, NSW, Australia - Six people were stabbed to death, and 8 were wounded,at one of the busiest shopping malls in Australia's largest city on Saturday afternoon . One of the victims was a baby. The alleged killer was shot dead by police, taking the death toll to seven. The mass stabbing, just after 3:30pm Saturday afternoon, has shocked Australia which has seen not seen such an attack since 1996 when a ..read more

NEW YORK CITY, New York: This week, Thomas Oxley, CEO of Synchron Inc., a rival to Elon Musk's Neuralink, said the company is preparing to recruit patients for a large-scale clinical brain implant trial, which it requires for commercial approval for its device. Synchron will launch an online registry for patients interested in joining the trial, which is planned to involve dozens of participants, noting that the ..read more

Cooler temperatures are fading our memories of summer and reducing numbers of mosquitoes in southern parts of Australia. But up north, warmer temperatures and plenty of rain will keep mosquitoes active. While their bites are annoying, more concerning is the diseases mosquitoes carry. Health authorities have recently warned local communities and travellers heading to the ..read more

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan has once again stolen the focus from India in the new United Nations-backed Happiness Report, maintaining its 108th position while India fell to 126th in the rankings announced on Wednesday. Finland remained the world's happiest country for the seventh consecutive year, while Nordic countries maintained their positions in the top ten happiest, with Denmark, Iceland, and Sweden tra ..read more

NEW YORK CITY, New York: On April 5, Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), appointed former Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop as his special envoy to Myanmar. She replaces Noeleen Heyzer, a former UN undersecretary-general for Singapore, who left after 20 months at the end of her contract in June 2023. As the country's conflict escalated into the worst violence since the ..read more

New Delhi [India], April 5 (ANI): Western Australia (WA) batter Ashton Turner is set to play for Durham for the third consecutive season of Vitality Blast following his stint in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 with Lucknow Super Giants (LSG). Turner has not played the sport since suffering a knee injury during the Big Bash League season in December. He is currently with the Super Giants in the ongoing 17th edition of ..read more

A neo-Nazi-linked activist wants the town councilor fired for observing Russia's presidential election The Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations has demanded that a small-town councilor be fired for traveling to Russia to observe the country's recent presidential election and congratulating Vladimir Putin o ..read more