Australia

An alleged plan to kidnap and behead a random Australian appears to have been thwarted by police who arrested 15 people in a series of dawn raids across Sydney and Brisbane this morning. Unconfirmed details of the plot emerged as one suspect, Omarjan Azari , 22, faced court in Sydney on a charge of preparing […]

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The seven-year study, published in the Medical Journal of Australia, looked at more than 1100 women diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2005 and found that the mortality rate for country women was 20 per cent higher than women in a metropolitan area. It also found just 35 per cent of rural based women lived for […]

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A new report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) shows that the death rate for males is 1.5 times as high as the rate for females.

Aussies place second in the world to emerge from a divorce better financially, a new study has found.

Similar to statistics here in Australia breast cancer is among the most prevalent forms of cancer diagnosed in Fijian women but high costs of treatment coupled with low income means many women can only pay for basic care, just enough to ensure survival and nothing more – after care just isn’t a luxury they can […]

The Influenza Specialist Group (ISG) reports that there has been almost 21,000 laboratory confirmed cases in the country this year – that’s double the number of cases at the same time last year. The records show that many of the cases are affecting those aged between 20 and 49 and 25 per cent more women […]

Compose, the research study based at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) hopes to increase language, learning and memory in people with Down syndrome through a medicine being tested around Australia. Professor Rhoshel Lenroot who is leading the study says the medicine they are testing is a compound called BTD-001. It was originally used to treat senile […]

He’s a small boy, dressed like so many Sydney boys. He’s got his summer sandals on, and his cute, checked shorts; his baseball cap, and his big, plastic watch. Oh, and he’s holding a severed head. A real, severed human head.