Tag: Australia

PERTH, Australia (AP) — Australia’s most populous state of New South Wales declared a seven-day state of emergency today as oppressive conditions fanned around 100 wildfires. Around 2,000 firefighters were battling the blazes, half of…

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Having played nearly every corner of the Earth in a nearly 50-year career, the rock band Kiss is taking its show to a new place — under the sea, where…

HONOLULU (AP) — Dozens of people were violently slammed off the ceiling of a jetliner that encountered unexpected and intense turbulence over the Pacific Ocean Thursday. An Air Canada flight to Australia made an emergency…

SYDNEY (AP) — Australian police arrested six people after what authorities said Friday was the largest single seizure of methamphetamine in the United States and the biggest drug haul bound for Australia. U.S. Customs and…