Spot electricity prices that soared to their maximum allowable level. Emptied batteries unable to supply a grid desperate for more energy. Dormant gas plants that fired to life and ran flat-out for days to keep the lights on. South Australia may be the country’s renewable energy flag-bearer, but its embrace of the transition has been…
‘We’re working on for first uncrewed Gaganyaan mission this year’, says Isro chief V Narayanan NEW DELHI: Isro chairman V Narayanan said on Saturday that the country is preparing for the first uncrewed Gaganyaan mission, advancing Chandrayaan-4, a lunar sample return mission, and Chandrayaan-5, a joint long-duration mission with Japan involving a heavier rover.Delivering the…
We’ve come a long way since it was Pauline Hanson who didn’t know the meaning of big words. When the Preferred Prime Minister (patent pending) bowled up her prescription at the Press Club that Australia should really be a “monoculture”, she triggered a national bout of semantic debate so farcical that it could absolutely work…
A multi-billion-dollar beer dynasty is being torn apart by explosive allegations of assault and a century-old law that is designed to protect parents from neglectful children. The Bhirombhakdi family founded the Singha beer company and has an estimated wealth of $US1.75 billion ($2.5 billion). Forbes lists the family as Thailand’s 15th richest. But allegations of…
US President Donald Trump makes a lot of jokes — often at other people’s expense. But rarely does he openly mock his own vice-president, and by doing so recently, he has unleashed a new wave of speculation about who he will anoint as his successor as the 2028 presidential election approaches. An increasingly popular talking…
The label is everywhere – from reality TV to relationship advice and even the US president. But psychologists say true narcissistic personality disorder is rare, complex and often misunderstood. The term narcissist has become the defining insult of our age. It can seem like a convenient catch-all for various kinds of crappy human behaviour as…
Keith Urban has lived and breathed country music for as long as he can remember. “I was nine years old when I first went to Tamworth,” Keith Urban tells Henry Wagons on Double J and ABC Country’s Tower Of Song. ABC Country is Australia’s home of country music Keep up with the latest in country…
‘Old’ explosive kills civilian in Baramulla SRINAGAR: A civilian was killed Saturday after coming into contact with an “old explosive object” that went off in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district.The deceased was identified as Zubair Ahmad Bajjad, a resident of Chandoosa area near the Line of Control (LoC) where instances of old mines going off are…
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Dangerous fire conditions in the Southwest are threatening to worsen blazes in Utah, Nevada and New Mexico, putting many communities on high alert this weekend. Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News subscription Get exclusive reporting, live Q&As and ad-free reading. The National Weather Service warned Saturday that gusty winds and dry air have created…