#washingtonpost.com. × A rock sat in a school for years. Scientists say it’s a fossil jackpot.. A paleontologist discovered dinosaur footprints in the roughly 200 million year old boulder, which was donated to an Australian school two decades ago.
#Mar.28.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Tiny dachshund survives 16 months on remote island but eludes rescuers. Her owners call her a “princess.” But little Valerie has likely toughened up, says the wildlife group looking for her, living off roadkill and evading poisonous snakes.
#Mar.27.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × In the Australian outback, climate change widens the racial divide. In the scorching Australian opal mining town of Coober Pedy, White people live in cool “dugouts” while their Aboriginal neighbors suffer above, often without AC.
#Mar.19.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Iguanas on rafts floated 5,000 miles from North America to Fiji, study finds. The humble iguana may have have pulled off an epic migration millions of years ago, traveling from the coast of today’s Mexico to Fiji on rafts made of vegetation.
#Mar.18.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × U.S. influencer snatches baby wombat from its mom. Cue Australian ire.. Widely shared video of the woman holding the baby wombat prompted Australian authorities to open an investigation into her visa status.
#Mar.13.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × U.S. allies in Asia still hope to avoid steel and aluminum tariffs. The Trump administration’s 25 percent tariffs on steel and aluminum imports are now in effect but South Korea, Japan and Australia remain hopeful of exemptions.
#Mar.12.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Video shows Queensland, Australia, after Cyclone Alfred dropped 15 inches of rain. Cyclone Alfred brought 15 inches of rain to Queensland, Australia, and eroded beaches.
#Mar.10.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Fred Stolle, 1960s Australian tennis star, dies at 86. Playing with a formidable serve-and-volley style, he won 19 Grand Slam titles, including singles championships in France in 1965 and the United States in 1966.
#Mar.08.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Teen with gun on plane disarmed and tackled by passengers. The 17-year-old is facing eight charges while a sheepshearer who stepped in to disarm him is being praised as a hero and has been offered free flights for life.
#Mar.07.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × New Zealand fires ambassador to U.K. for asking whether Trump ‘understands history’. “President Trump has restored the bust of Churchill to the Oval Office. But do you think he really understands history?” the New Zealand diplomat asked.
#Mar.06.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Cyclone Alfred heading toward Brisbane and eastern Australia for rare landfall. Alfred is forecast to make landfall near Brisbane, the capital of Queensland and Australia’s third largest city.
#Mar.06.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × New Zealand reckons with its own divisive culture war. New Zealand is deeply divided over the Treaty Principles Bill, which seeks to re-interpret the de facto constitution. Now the prime minister must stop it.
#Mar.06.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Tropical Cyclone Alfred to lash Queensland and New South Wales, Australia. Significant damage and power outages are possible in the densely populated region of Queensland, where tropical cyclones impacts are not uncommon but direct landfalls are.
#Mar.04.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Australia, with no auto industry to protect, is awash with Chinese EVs. The United States has effectively banned Chinese electric vehicles over concerns about unfair trading practices and national security. Not so in Australia.
#Mar.04.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × James Harrison, whose rare blood protected babies, dies at 88. A rare antibody in the blood of the Australian railway clerk was used to create 3 million doses of an injection needed to protect newborns and prevent stillbirths.
#Mar.03.2025 ×
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