#washingtonpost.com. × #Mar.28.2025 A rock sat in a school for years. Scientists say it’s a fossil jackpot.. A paleontologist discovered dinosaur footprints in the roughly 200 million year old boulder, which was donated to an Australian school two decades ago.
#Education #Science #Australian continent #Australia × #Insular Oceania
#washingtonpost.com. × #Mar.27.2025 Tiny dachshund survives 16 months on remote island but eludes rescuers. Her owners call her a “princess.” But little Valerie has likely toughened up, says the wildlife group looking for her, living off roadkill and evading poisonous snakes.
#Iceland #Afro-Eurasia #Australian continent #Australia × #Europe #Insular Oceania #Australia Group
#washingtonpost.com. × #Mar.19.2025 In the Australian outback, climate change widens the racial divide. In the scorching Australian opal mining town of Coober Pedy, White people live in cool “dugouts” while their Aboriginal neighbors suffer above, often without AC.
#Weather #Australian continent #Australia × #Insular Oceania
#washingtonpost.com. × #Mar.13.2025 U.S. influencer snatches baby wombat from its mom. Cue Australian ire.. Widely shared video of the woman holding the baby wombat prompted Australian authorities to open an investigation into her visa status.
#USA #Australian continent #Australia × #North America #Insular Oceania
#washingtonpost.com. × #Mar.12.2025 U.S. allies in Asia still hope to avoid steel and aluminum tariffs. The Trump administration’s 25 percent tariffs on steel and aluminum imports are now in effect but South Korea, Japan and Australia remain hopeful of exemptions.
#Japan #USA #Australian continent #Australia × #Asia #North America #Insular Oceania #South Korea
#washingtonpost.com. × #Mar.10.2025 Video shows Queensland, Australia, after Cyclone Alfred dropped 15 inches of rain. Cyclone Alfred brought 15 inches of rain to Queensland, Australia, and eroded beaches.
#Weather #Australian continent #Australia × #Insular Oceania
#washingtonpost.com. × #Mar.08.2025 Fred Stolle, 1960s Australian tennis star, dies at 86. Playing with a formidable serve-and-volley style, he won 19 Grand Slam titles, including singles championships in France in 1965 and the United States in 1966.
#Sport #France #USA #Australian continent #Australia × #Europe #North America #Insular Oceania #tennis
#washingtonpost.com. × #Mar.07.2025 Teen with gun on plane disarmed and tackled by passengers. The 17-year-old is facing eight charges while a sheepshearer who stepped in to disarm him is being praised as a hero and has been offered free flights for life.
#Aviation #Australian continent #Australia × #Insular Oceania
#washingtonpost.com. × #Mar.06.2025 Cyclone Alfred heading toward Brisbane and eastern Australia for rare landfall. Alfred is forecast to make landfall near Brisbane, the capital of Queensland and Australia’s third largest city.
#Weather #Australian continent #Australia × #Insular Oceania
#washingtonpost.com. × #Mar.04.2025 Tropical Cyclone Alfred to lash Queensland and New South Wales, Australia. Significant damage and power outages are possible in the densely populated region of Queensland, where tropical cyclones impacts are not uncommon but direct landfalls are.
#Weather #Australian continent #Australia × #Insular Oceania
#washingtonpost.com. × #Mar.04.2025 Australia, with no auto industry to protect, is awash with Chinese EVs. The United States has effectively banned Chinese electric vehicles over concerns about unfair trading practices and national security. Not so in Australia.
#Automotive #China #USA #Australian continent #Australia × #Asia #North America #Insular Oceania
#washingtonpost.com. × #Mar.03.2025 James Harrison, whose rare blood protected babies, dies at 88. A rare antibody in the blood of the Australian railway clerk was used to create 3 million doses of an injection needed to protect newborns and prevent stillbirths.
#Health #Australian continent #Australia × #Insular Oceania
#washingtonpost.com. × #Feb.21.2025 Shirley Duncan, whose wanderlust led her around the world, dies at 99. A bicycle ride across her native Australia, recounted in her 1957 book “Two Wheels to Adventure,” marked the beginning of a lifetime of dauntless travel.
#Australian continent #Australia × #Insular Oceania
#washingtonpost.com. × #Feb.21.2025 Flights diverted off Australia as Chinese navy conducts ‘show of force’. The Chinese naval exercises, in international waters off Australia’s eastern coast, while legal, have nonetheless sparked alarm in Australia and New Zealand.
#China #Australian continent #Australia × #Asia #Insular Oceania #New Zealand #Americas
#washingtonpost.com. × #Feb.19.2025 Australia’s spy chief warns of rising antisemitism, intolerance. Australia’s social cohesion is eroding, according to a sobering intelligence assessment that also warned of growing foreign interference and espionage.
#Business #AUKUS #director #Australian continent #Australia × #Insular Oceania
#washingtonpost.com. × #Jan.25.2025 ‘An unsightly blight’: Australia’s hottest debate is over beach cabanas. A new kind of real estate war is breaking out on Australia’s famous shorelines, with a debate over the fairness of staking a claim in the country’s “town squares.”
#Politics #Australian continent #Australia × #Insular Oceania #Americas
#washingtonpost.com. × #Jan.20.2025 In Milei’s Argentina, Trump sees a road map. What does it show?. Javier Milei, Argentina’s chainsaw-wielding president, has won Trump’s praise and will attend his inauguration. Under Milei, inflation is down and poverty is up.
#Politics #South America #Australia × #Argentina #Javier Milei #Insular Oceania
#washingtonpost.com. × #Jan.16.2025 Woman poisoned baby to grow online following and solicit donations, police say. Australian police said the woman gave the child unauthorized medicines and posted videos of her in “immense distress and pain” to obtain tens of thousands of dollars.
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#washingtonpost.com. × #Jan.08.2025 Australian hiker found after two weeks, survived on berries and muesli. Hadi Nazari, a medical student and an experienced hiker, went missing the day after Christmas and said he was walking every day from morning to night until he was found.
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