Thursday, March 13, 2008 Members of Australia’s Health Services Union (HSU) will go on strike in Victoria next week in a dispute over stalled wage and career structure negotiations. Over 5000 physiotherapists, speech pathologists and radiation therapists will walk off… Continue Reading →

Thursday, September 3, 2015 A study published yesterday by Nature estimates the global tree population at just over three trillion. Previous work estimated the total at 400 billion. The international research, led by Yale University in the US, used satellite… Continue Reading →

Friday, July 23, 2021 With five active cases of the Delta variant of COVID-19, South Australia begun a one-week lockdown on Monday. Announcing the lockdown, state Premier Steven Marshall declared “we have no alternative but to impose some fairly heavy… Continue Reading →

Monday, January 18, 2010 According to local officials, a United States drone attack in Pakistan’s South Waziristan province has killed at least fifteen people, although some reports put the death toll as high as twenty. The incident occurred in the… Continue Reading →

Saturday, April 9, 2005 The Toronto Transit Commission is expected to strike Monday. The TTC workers union, the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 113, rejected a deal offered by TTC management. They last went on strike in 1999. The average daily… Continue Reading →

Tuesday, December 7, 2004 EUROPE — Lycos Europe has ended its anti-spam operation: “Make Love Not Spam.” A company spokesperson said the objective of the time-limited campaign was to raise people’s awareness. The reasons why it ended the campaign was… Continue Reading →

Monday, September 2, 2013 Nelson Mandela has left hospital to return to his home in Johannesburg, in a critical condition, South African officials said on Sunday. The 95-year-old anti-apartheid leader and former South African president has spent nearly three months… Continue Reading →