It was a nail biting finish with the American bred and French trained horse Americain storming home by two lengths to win the Emirates Melbourne Cup 2010.  It  was  a classic battle with local favourite So You Think to the delight of racegoers at the Flemington race track. There was truly an international flavour to [...]

The 2010 World Rowing Championships was officially declared open by FISA President Denis Oswald at the Opening Ceremony at Lake Karapiro New Zealand on 30 October 2010. The ceremony program had many features including a performance by the ‘popera’ group Lyrica, and Zach Washer an acrobatic Cyr wheeler showed off his prowess to the crowd. [...]

The discovery was made on Friday of two suspicious mail packages containing Hewlett Packard printer toner cartridges packed with explosive materials bound for the United States.   The packages were intercepted in stopovers in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom in cargo on board two US-bound planes.  The bombs were transported [...]

The 2010 Shanghai a scheduled World Expo in the tradition of international fairs and expositions has been held in Shanghai China for the last six months. The first Expo was held in London in 1851 and this Chinese World Expo comes to a close on 31 October 2010 after participation by over 246 Chinese and [...]

The Hubble Space Telescope which was put  into Earth’s orbit by space shuttle Discovery in 1990 has revealed the oldest galaxy ever seen by astronomers .  The galaxy was born nearly 600 million years after the Big Bang.   It is called UDFy-38135539 and is further awayfrom the Earth than any other known celestial object. [...]

The unique and specially modified Silver Aston Martin DB5 coupe created in 1964 for  the James Bond movies went under the hammer today in an auction held by RM Auctions and Sothebys in London all in a good cause. The car was only driven in the movies Goldfinger and Thunderball by the Sir  Sean Connery [...]

Monday’s 7.5 magnitude earthquake off the  coast of Western Sumatra close to the  Mentawai Islands triggered a tsunami and the  eruption of Mt Merapi (Fire Mountain) in Java.   A further eruption of the volcano occurred on Tuesday. The Indonesian archipelago is prone to this  earthquake activity located as it is in what is known as [...]

Filming of the two Hobbit movies will stay in NZ after the Government completed negotiations with Warner Bros executives which will see production get underway in the New Year. The outcome will see changes made to the country’s labour laws and the movie company will get increased tax breaks of about $33 million. At a [...]

Laci Wilkins a 27 year old from Palm Desert will soon be the proud owner of a specially trained service dog, which will greatly increase her ability to be more independent. Having been diagnosed with Epilepsy as a young person her condition has progressed as she has got older.   It now makes it difficult [...]