Human medicines and household substances have been discovered in the blood of green turtles in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, researchers said Friday, highlighting the impact of man-made matter on marine life. Medications for the heart (milrinone) and gout (allopurinol), as well as cosmetic and industrial chemicals, were among hundreds of thousands of substances detected in … Read more
Faceless fish and other weird and wonderful creatures, many of them new species, have been hauled up from the deep waters off Australia during a scientific voyage studying parts of the ocean never explored before. The month-long journey off the country’s eastern seaboard has been surveying life lurking in a dark and cold abyss that … Read more
US President Donald Trump and Australia’s Malcolm Turnbull will meet later Thursday to steady a long-standing alliance after relations soured at a time of growing tensions in the Asia-Pacific. The two leaders will meet on the decommissioned aircraft carrier, the Intrepid, in New York, to mark the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of the Coral … Read more
The Queens-born Donald Trump, whose wife still has a Manhattan address, won’t even get a Bronx cheer when he returns home for his first time since becoming president. Angry protests and security closures are set to provide the backdrop to Trump’s talks with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull set for Thursday. The Republican is the … Read more
Donald Trump returns to New York on Thursday for the first time as president, where protests and a massive security operation will provide a backdrop to his talks with the Australian prime minister. The Republican commander-in-chief, who spent his entire life in New York before moving to Washington on the eve of his inauguration, is … Read more
Malcolm Turnbull will seek to steady Australia’s longstanding alliance with the United States when he meets Donald Trump this week, after relations soured at a time of growing tensions in the Asia-Pacific. His visit to New York on Thursday comes as Washington works to shore up regional support against North Korea, ratcheting up pressure on … Read more
Donald Trump will meet Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in New York next week, rebooting a relationship that got off to a rocky start shortly after the US president’s inauguration. The White House announced Tuesday that the meeting will take place May 4 at the USS Intrepid museum in New York, where Trump is set … Read more