Australian cat-proof fence protects endangered species

Australian cat-proof fence protects endangered species

Melbourne : Feral cats are a huge threat to native animals in Australia but one region wants to stop their destruction by physically shutting them out. The world’s longest cat-proof fence has been built in central Australia to help bring endangered species back to the area. The 44km (27 mile) electric fence borders a wildlife […]

Tiahleigh Palmer: The 12-year-old murdered by her foster father’

Tiahleigh Palmer: The 12-year-old murdered by her foster father’

Sydney : Australian schoolgirl Tiahleigh Palmer was 12 years old when she came home from dance class and was murdered by her foster father. Hours earlier, Rick Thorburn had learned that that his teenage son, Trent, had sexually assaulted her. They feared she might be pregnant. So the Queensland man killed Tiahleigh and dumped her near-naked […]

Mother dies after raising £40,000 for sons

Mother dies after raising £40,000 for sons

SYDNEY : A woman with motor neurone disease who raised more than £40,000 to enable her sons to live with her sister in Australia has died, BBC reported. Sam Kyme, 34, from Banbury, could no longer talk, but made the plea through her friends on a crowdfunding website. The cash will be used to fund the […]

Salvation Army defends use of donated McCartney tickets

Salvation Army defends use of donated McCartney tickets

Sydney : A Salvation Army leader in Australia has defended the organisation after his daughter attended a Paul McCartney concert using donated tickets. A Beatles fan in Melbourne had given seven tickets to the charity, saying they should be used by homeless people. Two of the passes were returned hours before the concert, so were […]

Austrian ‘whizz-kid’ brings right wing back into power

Austrian ‘whizz-kid’ brings right wing back into power

Vienna : Austria is set to become the only western European country with a far-right party in the government after the anti-immigration Freedom Party (FPOe) and Sebastian Kurz’s conservatives struck a coalition deal, capping a year of successes for Europe’s nationalist movements. As the parties met to rubber-stamp the accord struck on late Friday, Herbert […]