Qantas Plane Dives 20,000 Feet After Mystery Hole Rips Fuselage Area

Update: thanks to the ever-alert eye of NP member Vinny, I've learned that the first publication of this story was  by JayR_ Patron, here. Do stop by his column, too, please. A jumbo jet drops 20,000 feet in flight, and the passengers all live to tell the story. But what...

Paramedics on triple-0 calls used as taxi drivers

Pensioners using ambulances for free ride was disgraceful. What if someone else is killed or injured as a result of no ambulances available. " PARAMEDICS responding to emergency Triple-0 calls in Sydney's west are instead being used as de facto taxi drivers to local...

Australia brothel says business booming during papal visit

...?.."The owner of the upmarket bordello Xclusive said that she had hired extra women to meet increased demand during the July 15-20 World Youth Day events, which have seen hundreds of thousands of pilgrims descend on Sydney. While the brothel was not targeting pilgrims, a...

Men And Women May Need Different Diets

Diet can strongly influence how long you live and your reproductive success, but now scientists have discovered that what works for males can be very different for females.""When it comes to choosing the right diet, we need to look more closely to the individual, their sex...

Anti-pope activists given legal right to 'annoy' Catholic pilgrims

Anti-papal activists in Australia have won permission to annoy Catholic pilgrims at the World Youth Day celebrations in Sydney after a court upheld their right to hand out condoms and coat hangers. "The decision, by the Federal Court, strikes down a law introduced by the...

More than 30 Indian youths disappear in New Zealand

  More than 30 Indian youths have disappeared in New Zealand, where they were in transit to go to Sydney for World Youth Day. " All were billeted with church members in Auckland under a so-called Days in the Diocese programme before going to Australia, where Pope...

Activists win right to promote condoms to Catholics at World Youth Day

Activitists in Australia have won the right to distribute condoms at the world youth day in Sydney marking the pope's visit, blocking an order that had attempted to stop them from doing so by barring people from "annoying" the pilgrims."Young Catholics attending World Youth...

Despite Pope´s apologies for children sexual abuses, victims promise protests

In a most contradictory manner and during his visit to Australia Pope Benedict XXI will apologise for children sexual abuses. Victims do not take this Vatican move as appropriate and promise to hold protests. This is just another sad expression of the Catholic...