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Australia beaches reopen after strange red algal bloom
Beaches around southeastern Australia’s coastline reopened after a red algal bloom that glowed a phosphorescent blue at night forced them to close to the public. The algae, noctiluca scintillans, forced swimmers and surfers out of the water at Sydney’s Bondi and a number of neighbouring beaches earlier this week, and…
Watch: ‘Dangling crane’ company sees second collapse in Australia
A construction crane in Sydney, Australia caught fire and collapsed onto a university building Tuesday morning, underscoring workers’ worries over safety on the project, The Sydney Morning Herald reported. “We had a four-day stoppage on the project a number of weeks ago,” said Brian Parker, state secretary for the Construction,…
Police shut down U.S.-Australia gun network
SYDNEY — An illegal gun supply network from Nashville in the United States to Sydney, where there has been a spate of drive-by shootings, has been shut down, police said on Friday. In a joint operation by Australian and US law enforcement officers, three men were arrested in Nashville on…
Industrial music scares off pesky Sydney bats
A huge colony of fruit bats that live in Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens are such a pest that desperate officials have taken to blaring industrial noise and banging sounds to scare them off. And the ploy appears to have worked. A week ago some 5,000 of the large mammals could be seen hanging in trees throughout the park,…
‘Outrageously stupid’ Aussie raver survives fall from scaffold
Witnesses at the Creamfields dance festival in Sydney, Australia on Sunday thought they had witnessed a fatal fall when a man slipped by security, scaled a high scaffold, then lost his balance, tumbling down some twenty feet. Police described his actions as “outrageously stupid.” Amazingly, the unidentified man got back…
Tiny wires could usher new computer era
WASHINGTON — Scientists said Thursday they have designed tiny wires, 10,000 times thinner than a human hair but with the same electrical capacity as copper, in a major step toward building smaller, more potent computers. The advance, described in the US journal Science, shows for the first time that wires…
More martyrs
The men who killed a friend of mine were executed yesterday. Maria Kotronakis of Sydney, Australia, whose two sisters were killed [in the Bali bombings], said she was angry that the men never showed remorse, but with the executions, “justice has been served.” By executing them, the Indonesian government has…
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