Archive for December, 2010
At the last count, brewing giant Foster’s boasted 238 products in its ever expanding portfolio — although, interestingly, it no longer owns the eponymous ‘amber nectar’, made famous by those 1980s TV ads featuring Paul Hogan, in any market other than Australia.
Virgin Blue Holdings will enter 2011 with an international network capable of challenging national flag carrier Qantas Airways, analysts say.
by Staff Writers Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Dec 31, 2010 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev dismissed two senior space industry officials and reprimanded the head of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, Anatoly Perminov on Wednesday over the recent loss of three Glonass satellites.
HE HAS wrapped the coast around Little Bay in Sydney and the Pont-Neuf in Paris, created a 39-kilometre artwork called Running Fence in California and built The Gates in New York City’s Central Park. But Christo, who specialises in giant installations, is facing a backlash from American environmentalists over his plan to cover more than nine kilometres of a Colorado river in shimmering fabric.
LOCAL identity Sally Martin and a long lost school friend, Karen Hutchinson, have been selected as finalists in the Rural Women’s Awards.
Cycling Australia today announced the resignation of Shayne Bannan from his role at the helm of the sport’s High Performance Programs.
Following a difficult year for grain growers battling crop disease pathogens, pulse pathologists from across Australia have gathered in Toowoomba to exchange information.
THE world’s cities offer enormous potential for creating greener environments that manage water better.
Cycling is getting cleaner and cleaner, according to Thomas Voeckler. The French cyclist of the year said that “compared to earlier years, I have the impression that everyone is working in the same direction in the fight against doping.”
Shares in Nido Petroleum and Kairiki Energy were sharply lower after Nido revealed continued production from the Tindalo oil field off the Philippines would be uneconomic.
