The Victorian Government is considering closing more waters to fishing off Victoria's south west coast to control a deadly abalone virus.

The founder of the entertainment company Cirque du Soleil is set to become the seventh private space explorer when he travels to the International Space Station in September.

The ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal has finished hearing an appeal by Animal Liberation against the culling of kangaroos on Defence Department land at Majura.

A Japanese software industry body has decided to ban computer games in which players simulate sexual violence against females.

The link between cigarette smoke and asbestos illness has been highlighted by a new medical research project.

Researchers at an archeological site in northern Peru have made an unusually large discovery of nearly three dozen people sacrificed some 600 years ago by the Incan civilization.

The Human Services Department is investigating sexually explicit material found on a computer at the Ashley Youth Detention Centre in northern Tasmania.

Despite being plentiful in number, Australia's two largest populations of koalas are so heavily inbred, they risk instant extinction, say researchers.

A two-year-old kangaroo shot in the head with an arrow in Melbourne's northern suburbs last month has died.

A herd of hungry elephants has forced all 5,000 families from a village in northern Mozambique to abandon their homes, state media reported on Friday.

Two Top Twenties have been compiled from data generated by the Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) throughout May 2009.

Two Top Twenties have been compiled from data generated by the Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) throughout May 2009.

IT Security firm expands its capacity with environmentally friendly office in Abingdon

Two Top Twenties have been compiled from data generated by the Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) throughout May 2009.

Kaspersky Lab shows its commitment to the Small and Medium Business market with the latest expansion of its Green Team Channel Partner Programme in the UK.

Kaspersky Lab's multi award-winning security solutions gain an increased foothold on the Highstreet and Online with the announcement of a distrubution agreement with the UK retail distributor, Gem.

Launch event penned for 1 July.Oracle has confirmed it will release its long-awaited Fusion Middleware 11g portfolio at a launch event in Washington, D.C. at the beginning of July.

Launch event penned for 1 July.Oracle has confirmed it will release its long-awaited Fusion Middleware 11g portfolio at a launch event in Washington, D.C. at the beginning of July.

Unified Computing concept gets expanded.Cisco has announced two rackmounted data centre servers to complement the blade servers it announced earlier this year. The company said that the 1RU and 2RY servers, part of its Unified Computing System strategy, represented an

Rolling out across product range.The Moblin Linux operating system championed by Intel, received a major boost this week after Acer, the world's third-largest PC vendor, said it plans to offer it in its product range.