14 Feb
In pictures: Fire refugees
Australian police have charged a man with lighting one of the country’s deadly bushfires.
The 39-year-old was charged with arson causing death, for lighting a fire near Churchill in eastern Victoria state. The blaze killed at least 21 people.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has described Australia’s deadliest bushfires as mass murder.
At least 181 [...]
9 Feb
Sunday, February 08, 2009An Australian tour guide plunged into a croc-infested swamp in a desperate bid to save his five-year-old son snatched by a 10-foot-long crocodile.
Steve Doble of Queensland, who owns Daintree Rainforest Rivertrain, flung himself into the waist-deep floodwaters Saturday only to find that his youngest boy had vanished.
He was alerted by the screams [...]
9 Feb
NEWS.com.au
February 09, 2009 02:00pm
THE parents of a five-year-old boy feared taken by a 3-metre crocodile on a north Queensland river say they don’t want any of the reptiles put down.
A search for the boy in the Daintree River, north of Cairns, resumed today, but has been hampered by the high tide.
Police say the boy, whose [...]
9 Feb
by William West William West – Sun Feb 8, 5:25 pm ET
AFP – A tree burns close to a burnt out house at Kinglake, north of Melbourne.(AFP/William West)
KINGLAKE, Australia (AFP) – The death toll from the worst wildfires in Australia’s history — described by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd as “hell in all its fury” — has risen to 108, [...]
