Topic: Sydney (Australia)

How America can create jobs

The nation's entrepreneurial prowess may be the best hope to stem 9.7 percent unemployment. Companies from a laser-tech firm to a baby-sitting network are harnessing new ideas – and helping reinvent the economy.

Opinion: 2010 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony: What about Vancouver's homeless?

As long as the Olympics change locations, ill-equipped cities like Vancouver will make cosmetic preparations that only exacerbate local issues.

Another Indian student killed in Australia: Racism or hard times to blame?

Nitin Garg, an accounting graduate from India studying in Australia, was stabbed to death Saturday in the latest attack on Indians. Competition with Indian migrants for jobs in poor suburbs may be behind it.

Opinion: What Facebook’s pro-rape group says about our culture of sexual assault

It should not come as a shock that university students in Australia thought they could get away with creating a Facebook group that explicitly condoned rape. After all, they live in a culture that implicitly does the very same thing.

Global warming threatens Australia's beach life

Parliamentary report in Australia shows 700,000 coastal homes may be at risk if global warming continues and sea levels rise. Local conflicts are brewing over residents who want to build seawalls and town planners who want to move houses away from Australia's beaches.

Text of Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech

Written speech delivered by President Barack Obama when accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Thursday.

Oprah Winfrey: saint or mindless consumerist?

Oprah Winfrey’s announced departure from her daytime talk show has brought out her biggest fans and loudest critics.

Will a longer school day help close the achievement gap?

A longer school day can help improve student test scores, closing the achievement gap. But critics question the cost of those additional hours.

Money Daily Brief: US bailout beneficiaries expand in Asia

Samoa tsunami lesson: Early warning system too slow

The Samoa tsunami demonstrates a problem for early warning systems - massive waves crashed ashore before researchers could analyze the earthquake and sound the alarm. A second earthquake struck near Samoa Wednesday, where the death toll has topped 150.

Money Daily Brief: G20 is world's new economic order

Investors worry that G20 limits on bankers' pay would hurt financial stocks.

Dust storm covers Sydney in red

Australia's worst dust storm in 70 years swept up thousands of tons of topsoil and dumped it over Sydney. Such storms could grow bigger and more frequent with climate change.

Dust storm in Australia turns Sydney into Mars

Australia's worst dust storm in 70 years has given a rusty tint to the the continent's east coast.

Taking the homeless beyond shelters

Rosanne Haggerty's Common Ground creates permanent housing that has reduced homelessness by 87 percent in one 20-block area of New York City.

Australian police arrest four accused of plotting terrorist attack

Police say the four Australian citizens had received training in Somalia and were planning to attack a military barracks in Sydney.

Notes on a bridge

Composer Joseph Bertolozzi has recorded sounds from the Mid-Hudson Bridge to create a new kind of symphony.

Dalai Lama takes his case to Chinese émigrés

Although Beijing ignores his appeals, some Chinese are listening.

Australia tries to stem fallout from attacks on Indian students

Recent violence has sparked worries about damage to the country's booming higher-education business.

Friday's coverage agenda: Iran votes, China censors, Security Council meets

The world's 10 best bookstores