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• Glacier chunk crushes 2 Australian tourists
Jan. 8: A Chinese man entered a panda's cage to retrieve a toy dropped by his child. Willie Geist has the story. WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A falling chunk of glacier crushed two brothers to death at a popular tourist spot, and one remained buried ...
• Australian Antarctic outpost becomes a hot spot
SYDNEY - An isolated Australian outpost in remote Antarctica has become a popular destination for adventure-seeking tourists, as more tour operators put it on their itinerary for more than just researchers. The 97-year-old Mawson's Hut, in Cape ...
• Nevada regulators approve Cannery Casino deal
... which will consider the deal at a Jan. 22 meeting in Las Vegas. Crown owns and operates properties in Australia, Britain, Canada and Macau. Cannery Casino Resorts will be held as a subsidiary of Crown Ltd., which is publicly traded on the Australian ...
• 'Jealous wife' charged after fatal genitals fire
Jan. 5: CNN started 2009 on the wrong foot, when they didn't bleep comedian's Kathy Griffin's vulgar rebuttal to a heckler during their New Year's Eve coverage. ADELAIDE, Australia - An Australian woman accused of setting her husband's genitals on ...
• 2 hours screen time a day may lead to unfit kids
Australian researchers have found that young teens who spend more than two hours in front of the TV or computer each day showed less endurance during a standard running test than their peers. The findings do not prove that TV and computer time is ...