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Afghanistan turns to Australia for mining expertise

Afghanistan Australia could help Afghanistan develop its fledgling mining industry and tap into mineral and energy reserves estimated to be worth trillions of dollars. The country is eager to find a new source of revenue when international aid starts to decline and foreign forces withdraw next year. Afghan mining minister Wahidullah Shahrani, has already met with various Australian Government ...
SKorea says NKorea fires 3 short-range missiles

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea says North Korea has fired three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters. Pyongyang routinely test-launches such ...
Live Dragons v Eels

30th min: A Luke Kelly grubber into the corner forces Jason Nightingale to scramble the ball out of touch after a few nervous fumbles. The Eels regain possession but come up empty after Jarryd Hayne opted to kick early in the tackle count but it was his teammates who were unprepared, not the ...
Moon explosion No telescope required

The most powerful meteor strike on the moon ever observed has just been announced by NASA. A March 17 strike on the moon caused an explosion equal to five tons of TNT and could have seen with the naked eye, said Bill Cooke, head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. "It exploded in a flash many times as bright as anything we've seen before," said Dr ...
Up the creek for fabulous paddle in Kangaroo Valley

THE Kangaroo River starts in the gurgle of a little stream, glinting through tumbled boulders before emerging among lush green ...

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Dr. Seuss' The Lorax [Blu-Ray]

The Lorax, a clever environmental fable first published in 1971, has always been the angriest and most directly political book authored by the prolific Theodore Geisel (aka, Dr. Seuss), even though the author himself always professed to be wary of lecturing and speechifying. Thu ... ...

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Tigers CEO Humphreys resigns

Balmain 2041 Stephen Humphreys has stepped down from his position as Wests Tigers chief executive.The Tigers are languishing at the bottom of the NRL ladder following a 54-10 thumping at the hands of South Sydney on Friday night.Humphreys, who has been under pressure during a season of bad results and injuries to key personnel, is expected to stay on at the club until a replacement is ...
Missing toddler found alive in dense bushland

Taree 2430 A toddler who went missing yesterday near Taree on the New South Wales mid-north coast has been found safe and well. Police say the two-year-old boy named Tyler was with his mother at an auto-mechanic business in Johns River, about 35 kilometres north-east of Taree, when he disappeared around 10:30am yesterday. A ground and air search failed to locate the boy and was suspended at ...
Explosion meteor strikes moon

The most powerful meteor strike on the moon ever observed has just been announced by NASA. A March 17 strike on the moon caused an explosion equal to five tons of TNT and could have seen with the naked eye, said Bill Cooke, head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. "It exploded in a flash many times as bright as anything we've seen before," said Dr ...
Hockeys free kick turns into a battering

All Hockey had to do was go on the Alan Jones show, make some noises about government debt and the carbon tax, and bask in Jones' furious agreement. The interview was bound to be a free kick, right? Wrong. What followed was extraordinary radio, during which Jones harangued Hockey for subsidising wind and solar power, attacked the entire Medicare system as "unaffordable" and ...
Cricket Australia is investigating David Warners shocking Twitter rant

ROBERT Craddock, one of Australia's senior sports writers, has responded to David Warner's Twitter rant. Cricket Australia is currently investigating Warner's extraordinary expletive-laden social media tirade against News Limited journalists Craddock and Malcolm Conn. A series of fiery rants were this morning posted on Warner's Twitter account in response to Craddock's ...

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Gregg was speaking about her father Ariel Castro who allegedly kidnapped, raped and held captive for a decade, three young women in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Women spend almost twice as much time on housework and childcare than men do

Researchers from Australia have found that women spend almost twice as much time on housework and childcare than men, even when they increase their time in paid employment.

According to the Australian Institute of Family Studies, women with children under five spend about 41 hours a week on childcare, 32 hours a week on housework and 14 hours in paid work, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.

Once their children are in school and they increase their paid work, they still devote 29 hours a week to chores while spending 25 hours a week in paid employment.

Fathers with children under five spend 15 hours a week on housework, rising to 17 hours once children are aged 5-14 and their partners increase their paid workload.

Mothers of under-fives do a total of 88 hours' work each week, including housework, paid work, childcare and voluntary work, compared with men who contribute 79 hours.

But once children are aged 5-14, hours of work equalise as both fathers and mothers contribute 75 hours a week, with paid work making up the bulk of men's time.

Australian Institute of Family Studies senior researcher Jennifer Baxter said while women had made great strides in the workplace, the domestic front was different. ...