Sydney Makes It to New Monopoly Board
Thursday August 28, 2008
New Monopoly World Edition Released
In January ths year, the makers of the Monopoly board game developed by Parker Brothers opened voting for top city locations for its Here and Now: ... Read More
Get Set for Sydney's Cabramatta Moon Festival
Monday August 25, 2008
The Cabramatta Moon Festival, celebrated once a year when the moon shines brightest at the vernal equinox, is one of Sydney's largest Asian multicultural festivals.
It draws crowds in the ... Read More
The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Schussing
Saturday August 23, 2008
Some of the best snowfalls in the Snowy Mountains and the Victorian Alps this season have been turning the New South Wales and Victorian winter wonderland (and Tasmania's, too) into ... Read More
Gay Time in Yackandandah
Tuesday August 19, 2008
The Australian film, Strange Bedfellows, starring Paul Hogan, Michael Caton and Pete Postlethwaite, was filmed in the Victorian town of Yackandandah close to the Victorian ski fields.
Strange Bedfellows was the ... Read More
Stephanie Rice - Three Gold Medals, Three World Records
Thursday August 14, 2008
Twenty-year-old Australian swimmer Stephanie Rice won three gold medals at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and set new world records in her races.
In the women's 200m individual medley, she ... Read More
Eye-Popping Travel Photos
Wednesday August 13, 2008
We join Nancy Parode's first About.com travel blog carnival to view some of the more amazing pictures our travel writers have found around the globe.
Enter the world of Eye-Popping Travel ... Read More
Foreplay May Take Years but Centenarian Is to Be a Father Now
Thursday August 7, 2008
In Invercargill on New Zealand's South Island, the Southland Museum and Art Gallery has had an outdoor "tuatarium" since 1974. But it is understood one tuatara, who has been named ... Read More