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READ MORE As World AIDS Day is marked on Friday, December 1, HIV researchers and advocacy groups want Australia to fast-track the approval of home testing kits as part of the effort to reduce the spread of the virus. Self-testing kits have been available on the internet since 2014, but they are yet to be approved by Australia’s regulatory body the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA). Researchers from Perth’s Curtin University say the kits could be especially useful for people from sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia. These groups consistently record the highest rates of HIV diagnoses in Australia by region of birth and often do not find out they have acquired the virus for several years. A vending machine that sells HIV test kits to students at Peking University in Beijing. (AAP) Corie Gray from the university’s School of Public Health said people from sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia were “over represented when it comes to late diagnoses” and often don’t want to voice the

READ MORE Extreme rain is rolling into Victoria which could threaten lives, flood rivers, turn farms into lakes and cause major flash flooding in Melbourne. A dozen people have been injured while preparing their properties for freak storms expected to dump at least two months’ rain on Victoria in three days. Eleven men and one woman fell from ladders on Thursday, many while clearing their gutters ahead of the deluge. Nine of the 12 ladder victims were aged over 50, Ambulance Victoria says. The most seriously injured, a man in his 80s, was airlifted to Melbourne with critical head and spinal injuries after falling near Bendigo. The others sustained head and back injuries, bruises and fractures. Its Marvellous Melbourne but might as well be Sydney as far as weather goes. Sweaty rain. pic.twitter.com/5Ocjr4RCBG — Hodgo (@Hodgjo) December 1, 2017 In just 30 minutes, 20mm of rain fell over Ferny Creek, in Melbourne’s south-east, and 25mm in an hour in Doncaster, in the city’s north-east, ac

READ MORE Unidentified armed men have stormed the campus of an agriculture university in Pakistan on Friday, wounding at least five people, police said. The attackers were exchanging fire with security forces at the Directorate of Agriculture Institute of Peshawar, said Tahir Khan, chief of police in the northwestern city. “Police and army commandos have cordoned off the campus,” Khan said. “A blast was also just heard from the campus.” Police and army troops summoned to the scene killed all of the attackers at the Directorate of Agriculture Institute in the northwestern city of Peshawar about two hours into the attack, the military’s press wing said. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, saying in a message from spokesman Mohammad Khorasani that they had targeted a safe house of the military’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency. The gunmen arrived at the campus in an auto-rickshaw and disguised in the burqas worn by many women in the region, Peshawar

READ MORE Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Australia’s captain, Steven Smith , has denied his group veered into inapt personal domain during their initial Test sledging of England’s players, and also questioned how James Anderson could impute to his group as “bullies” when a pitch bowler is widely famous as one of a some-more verbally antagonistic players in universe cricket. While a batsman Pete Handscomb was happy to report Australia’s proceed to England during a Gabba as “brutal” and foreshadowed some-more of a same in Adelaide, Smith was discerning to boot a idea that anything a Australians had pronounced crossed a much-debated “line” between gamesmanship and personal abuse. Jonny Bairstow was a sold aim for a hosts in Brisbane, with most broadside around references to his headbutt on Cameron Bancroft early in a debate among countless other written barbs. “I consider all was fine. It was played in good spirit. As I’ve pronounced previously, there’s

READ MORE Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Big Picture A pinkish ball? Ashes cricket during night time, underneath lights? What would Ivo Bligh and Billy Murdoch think? The initial Ashes captains would substantially be usually as doubtful by this growth as a thought of batsmen wearing helmets, or players reviewing umpiring decisions, or range ropes, or lonesome pitches. Or, brave we discuss it, branch microphones. The diversion moves with a times. Still, this Adelaide Test does paint a milestone: it will be a 330th Ashes Test and a initial played as a day-night affair. The first, we suspect, of many. Australia enter this compare with a 1-0 array lead after their 10-wicket win in Brisbane, and a teams have carried to Adelaide a grade of severity that arose from that Gabba Test. The England stay in sold seems to have defended some sourness from a Jonny Bairstow head-butt saga. James Anderson has likened a Australians to bullies for a approach in that they

READ MORE Key points:  NSW Nationals personality declares “Turnbull is a problem” Turnbull says Barilaro should call him to plead his issues Premier Berejiklian distances herself from deputy’s remarks  Joyce criticises “ insulting” comments about PM The leader  of a sovereign National Party and former emissary Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has responded to  NSW Nationals personality John Barilaro’s call for Malcolm Turnbull to resign. Mr Joyce pronounced a comments done by his state reflection were “very unhelpful” and “insulting”. Mr Barilaro slammed a care of Mr Turnbull on Friday and pronounced he should make approach for a new primary apportion in an unusual conflict on his sovereign Coalition colleague. The comments came on a eve of a essential by-election in New England , where Nationals personality Barnaby Joyce is fighting to reason his comparatively protected Lower House seat.  “Turnbull is a problem, a primary apportion is a problem,” Mr Barilaro told Radio 2GB’s Alan Jones on

READ MORE Shinzo Abe pronounced he was “deeply moved” during a “smooth decision” taken after a special assembly of a Imperial Council to confirm on a date for a renouned 83-year-old to step down for health reasons. “The supervision will make pinnacle efforts to safeguard that a Japanese people can applaud a emperor’s abandonment and a period of a climax prince,” combined Abe. Akihito’s eldest son, 57-year-old Crown Prince Naruhito, is approaching to rise a Chrysanthemum Throne a subsequent day. The czar repelled a republic final year when he signalled his enterprise to take a behind chair after scarcely 3 decades, citing his age and health problems. There have been abdications in Japan’s prolonged majestic story dating behind some-more than 2,600 years though a final one was some-more than dual centuries ago. Akihito is a 125th chairman to lay on a Chrysanthemum Throne given Emperor Jimmu, pronounced to be a successor of a mythological object enchantress Amaterasu. Emperors have played

READ MORE Elon Musk’s Tesla built a Powerpack system, that can yield electricity for some-more than 30,000 homes, to palliate South Australia’s appetite woes after a state was strike with a sum trance in 2016 following an “unprecedented” storm. The nonconformist billionaire progressing this year offering on Twitter to build a battery farm, and finished it final week to narrowly kick his self-imposed deadline of carrying it prepared in 100 days. “South Australia is now heading a universe in dispatchable renewable energy, delivered to homes and businesses 24/7,” state Premier Jay Weatherill pronounced Friday during a launch to coincide with a initial day of a summer season. “This is story in a making.” The 100 MW/129 MWh battery — in a farming city of Jamestown north of Adelaide and connected to a breeze plantation operated by French appetite organisation Neoen — granted 70MW of stored appetite Thursday, a Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) said. It is approaching to assistance

READ MORE A bullet has been found on the grounds of a public school that will host a polling station for tomorrow’s New England by-election, along with a note threatening a shooting on Saturday, according to police accounts.  NSW Police said the bullet discovered at Quirindi Public School was not related to the election, but confirmed they would provide extra security around the polling booths tomorrow.  “Police from the Oxley Local Area Command are investigating after the discovery of an item and graffiti at an educational facility in Quirindi,” a NSW Police spokesman told The Australian newspaper. “Police … will maintain a police presence at the location throughout the day on Saturday (tomorrow).” Barnaby Joyce’s electorate office also reported receiving a bullet in the mail in early November, accompanied by threats that appeared to be motivated by environmental politics – including the sender’s opposition to the controversial Adani coal mine, which Mr Joyce supports.  The Nationals

READ MORE Holocaust groups are calling for answers after a video showing a naked game of tag for a concentration camp exhibition was revealed to be filmed inside a Stutthof gas chamber. The artist video filmed in 1999 was entitled The   Game of Tag  and featured at a Krakow exhibition in 2015. The location of where the film was shot was never revealed until experts compared footage from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s recent visit to Stutthof and the gas chamber where the video was filmed. Since the development the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which investigates Nazi war criminals, and the Center of Organisation of Holocaust Survivors in Israel have written to the President of Poland to find out if the photographer had permission to use the gas chamber. Wiesenthal Center’s chief Efraim Zuroff told the BBC that the Polish President Andrzej Duda needed to ensure videos like this don’t occur again. Britain’s Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (R) and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (L) me

READ MORE A young Malaysian woman who went on a multi-million-dollar shopping spree in Sydney after Westpac mistakenly dropped the money into her bank account has had the fraud case against her dropped. Christine Jiaxin Lee was 17 in 2012 when she started receiving extended overdrafts to the amount of $4.6 million. She was arrested in May 2016 as she tried to fly home and charged with dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by deception and knowingly dealing with the proceeds of crime. A Sydney court last year heard Ms Lee was nabbed still owing $3.3 million after allegedly purchasing “luxury items” in taking advantage of the mistakenly extended overdraft. But on Friday her lawyer Hugo Aston told AAP they had been notified by the DPP the case had been dropped pre-trial, given there was “no deception” on Ms Lee’s part. He said the charge against her “required deception” but there was none on her part. “She’s obviously a happy young lady now this nonsense is over,” Mr Aston said. “

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READ MORE Extreme rain is rolling into Victoria which could threaten lives, flood rivers, turn farms into lakes and cause major flash flooding in Melbourne. A dozen people have been injured while preparing their properties for freak storms expected to dump at least two months’ rain on Victoria in three days. Eleven men and one women fell from ladders on Thursday, many while clearing their gutters ahead of the deluge. Its Marvellous Melbourne but might as well be Sydney as far as weather goes. Sweaty rain. pic.twitter.com/5Ocjr4RCBG — Hodgo (@Hodgjo) December 1, 2017 About 100mm of rain has been forecast for Melbourne between Friday and Sunday, while parts of Victoria are tipped to receive between 200mm and 300mm over the same period. Nine of the 12 ladder victims were aged over 50, Ambulance Victoria says. The most seriously injured, a man in his 80s, was airlifted to Melbourne with critical head and spinal injuries after falling near Bendigo. The others sustained head and back injurie

READ MORE Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce is tipped to comfortably win the New England by-election this weekend but his primary vote could take a hit if voters punish the troubled Turnbull government. Mr Joyce will almost certainly regain the NSW seat in the absence of a high-profile opponent when almost 110,000 voters go to the polls on Saturday. Betting websites have Mr Joyce as the overwhelming favourite. The former deputy prime minister won the seat with 58.5 per cent of the two-party preferred vote in 2016 against nine other candidates. This time around 16 independent and minor party candidates are hoping local will punish the embattled Turnbull government by voting against Mr Joyce. “Some people will have divided loyalties,” election analyst Kevin Bonham told AAP. “People may want to punish the government but not Joyce.” Dr Bonham says the high number of candidates could reduce Mr Joyce’s primary vote considerably, and delay his victory celebrations. “There’s a lot of feeling th