Austria launches action to seize Hitler’s house

Vienna: Austria’s government on Friday submitted a law to seize the house where Hitler was born, in a bid to stop the building becoming a neo-Nazi shrine. The large corner house in the quaint northern town of Braunau am Inn near the German border where the Nazi dictator was born in 1889 has been owned by […]

First signs of coral bleaching in Sydney Harbour

SYDNEY : Coral bleaching has been detected in Sydney Harbour for the first time, Australian scientists said Tuesday, blaming the damaging phenomenon also found in the Great Barrier Reef on warming sea-surface temperatures. Aerial surveys of the World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef off Queensland’s coast last month revealed the worst bleaching on record along a […]

Fossilised tooth of gigantic ‘killer’ whale found

SYDNEY: A huge, five-million-year-old whale tooth has been discovered on an Australian beach, providing the first evidence of the now extinct killer sperm whale outside the Americas. The 30-centimetre-long (12-inch) fossilised tooth, which is larger than that of a Tyrannosaurus rex, was found by a fossil enthusiast at Beaumaris Bay near Melbourne in February. “After I […]