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Ricky Martin was spotted hanging out with his twins in a park in Sydney, Australia this past Sunday.

The moon moves in orbit between the earth and the sun and blocks the sun from view in a solar eclipse.

Today, Microsoft has made the long-awaited announcement that Windows Azure is coming to Australia ! Of course it's been possible for Aussies to deploy and use applications in Windows Azure for some time, but this has always required deploying to overseas data centres.

FAST food will not attract a "fat tax" and the government will instead rely on education in Australia's battle against obesity.

Chinese state sponsored cyberattacks have recomenced against US companies, says the New York Times.Unit 61398 of the Chinese army is said to be the source of the cyberattacks on US companies and federal gov agencies.A Us cyber defence company originally made the claims.

AN ALLEGED victim of child molestation told her friends "bad things'' were happening to her while she was a student living at a state-run hostel, a Perth court has heard.

Where there are million of animals, there are millions of tons of waste. In a clever solution to a major waste disposal problem, Australian researchers have found a way to convert 1.4 million tons of Chinese pig excrement into fertilizer and a source of alternative energy.

Judith Shamian said she's been given a dream opportunity to influence to health of people and nursing, after being elected president of the International Council of Nurses.

The friendship between Australia and Japan before WWII can be found in the work of Broome-based Japanese photographer, Yasukichi Murakami.

Remains found in South Australia's mid north identified, no bail for a 13 year old accused of throwing a molotov cocktail onto the Southern Expressway, and a second shift for Spring Gully.

Holden admits its short term prospects are grim, and it blames falling sales of the Adelaide-made Commodore and Cruze for its 150 million dollar loss Last hurrah? Holden workers, Premier Jay Weatherill and managing director Mike Devereux celebrate as Holden unveils its VF SS Commodore sports sedan at Adelaide's Elizabeth plant earlier this year.

US leaders such as Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter have admitted the 40 year US war on drugs in the Americas was a failure.Thousands have been needlessly killed and imprisoned in a military type approach by the US gov to stop drugs. Calls are now growing in the US for decriminalization and law reform after a string of countries in Latin America and Europe decriminalized "illicit" drugs for personal use.One US state Washington has decriminalized marijuana possesion making it legal to grow up to 5 plants for personal use.

Australia's east coast haven New South Wales, which is seeking to recruit a `chief funster' to promote tourism to Sydney and elsewhere, took the dubious honor for the biggest hauls of steroids and hallucinogens in 2011-2012 in the country, authorities said today.

Australia seized a record 23 tonnes of illicit drugs in 2011-2012 with arrests at a 10-year high, data show, as officials warned the country had become a key target for traffickers.

The band announced on Facebook and Twitter that they will be touring Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth in May and June.

The Kelpie of Few Accomplishments was resplendent in his bandana and plodded dutifully along for the entire inner lake loop.

The West Australian © London stand up comedians Gordon Southern, left and Jimmy McGhie with Perth International Comedy Festival director Jo Marsh.

Simon Reeve is about as adventurous as travel journalists get. The man behind BBC documentaries House of Saud, Equator and Indian Ocean has investigated terrorism, been shot at and suffered malaria, all to bring us thrilling TV.

Vannessa Young, who was born in Newcastle but now lives in Perth, will take part in the pageant with a difference North-born blonde bombshell Vannessa Young will be flying the flag for the region as she battles it out to win a beauty crown in Australia.

Five copper coins and a nearly 70-year-old map with an "X" might lead to a discovery that could rewrite Australia's history.