Countries negotiating a deal to curb trade in fake and pirated goods are close to reaching an agreement in talks that have raised concerns among digital rights advocates, U.S. trade officials said on Friday.
According to a Queensland University of Technology (QUT) study, which listed floods among the nation's deadliest of natural disasters, there have been at least 73 flood-related deaths from 1997 to 2008.
According to a new report: Cardiovascular disease mortality - trends at different ages, released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, the number of Australians who die each year from cardiovascular disease has been steadily falling since 1960s, with older age groups experiencing the greatest decline in deaths.
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The Australian dollar has opened relatively unchanged from yesterday following a mixed session offshore overnight.
The project, which is unrivalled in scale, went underway in 2008 and is working to catalogue the genetic profiles of cancer cells collected from 25,000 people - 500 per targeted cancers.
Global miner Rio Tinto slightly raised its production guidance for iron ore after posting a 39 percent jump in first-quarter output on Thursday, driven by Chinese demand and recovery in the West.
Asian stocks rose and neared 22-month highs on Thursday after U.S. tech and financial firms beat earnings forecasts and China's accelerating economic growth underpinned hopes of a broad, global economic recovery.
Asian stocks rose on Thursday as China's economic growth accelerated and bellwether U.S. tech and financial firms reported strong results, boosting appetite for riskier assets and putting the U.S. dollar on the defensive.
An obesity expert from the UK believes Australia has overtaken America as having one of the unhealthiest diets in the world.
Apple Inc said it would delay for one month the international roll-out of its iPad tablet computer, due to heavy demand and swift sales after its launch in the United States.
An updated Guide to Staying Alive that outlines a plan to aid troubled people in surviving a suicidal episode has just been released by a mental health support group in Australia
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The Chilean journalist, Mónica González Mujica, a heroine of the struggle against dictatorship in her country, has been named laureate of the 2010 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.
The aircraft leasing unit of bailed-out insurer American International Group has agreed to sell 53 passenger jets to Australia's Macquarie Group to raise a much-needed $2 billion in cash.
Children who spend time outdoors are less likely to become short-sighted and require glasses, say Australian researchers.
According to the long-standing policy that restricts blood donation from the gay community, a man who has had homosexual sex within the past 12 months is not eligible to donate blood. The policy is now being reviewed by Red Cross Blood service of Australia.
The first Australia's HIV antibody testing was introduced mid-April of 1985 and nearly 900,000 of the tests are still conducted, yearly across the country.
Universities Australia has signed an agreement with the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) for an ongoing partnership and collaboration with the universities of India through the AIU.
Victorian Premier John Brumby sought to trump Mr Rudd's offer to take responsibility for 60 per cent of state hospital funding in return for taking 30 per cent of GST revenues, with a demand for a 50-50 split that would leave the states in control of public hospitals.
(Reuters) - Deaths of women in and around childbirth have gone down by an average of 35 percent globally, according to a study using new methods, but are surprisingly high in the United States, Canada and Norway.
The pace of Chinese bank lending slowed in March, marking an initial victory by Beijing in its campaign to stop the world's third-largest economy from bubbling over.
