Two veterans of British nuclear tests in the 1950s said Tuesday that they were ordered to walk and crawl through an Australian desert shortly after authorities set off a nuclear bomb there. Australia's prime minister will consider a Defense Department report that recommended allowing women in combat if they meet the physical standards applied to male soldiers, a newspaper said Sunday. Australian and New Zealand atomic military personnel involved in British nuclear tests 45 years ago received excessive doses of radiation, according to a government document released Saturday from official archives. Behind frosted glass windows, Australian heroin users injected themselves for the first time in an officially sanctioned center that provides clean needles, counseling and medical staff, authorities said Monday.
Sharks kill three swimmers in less than a year.
A tiger snake's repeated bites prove fatal. Police arrested about 100 demonstrators Tuesday at a May Day event after some in the crowd threw hammers, pipes and bottles filled with excrement and urine at officers. Before attempting to treat his own potentially fatal illness, the South Pole's only doctor said his practice was limited mainly to treating the common cold. A man was killed Sunday when his parachute caught on the tail of an airplane, sending it into an uncontrollable dive and forcing 10 other people to jump for their lives. An Australian navy task force was confronted by a Chinese warship in the Taiwan Straits, adding to recent diplomatic tension between the two nations, officials said Sunday.