http://news.net/Copyright (c) 2012 Publishing Services International Limited. All Rights Reserved. Designated trademarks, brands and domain names are the property of their respective owners.Tasmanian Police say two elderly kayakers who spent more than nine hours lost on a river in the state's north on Saturday night were ill-prepared. The two men, aged in their 70's, got into difficulty on the South Esk River. One of them contacted police on his mobile telephone and searchers found the men cold but otherwise unharmed....http://news.net/article/300220/Video2013-05-26 01:28:27 A colony of penguins in Tasmania's north is settling in to new accommodation as part of a long-term project to restore its natural habitat. Little penguins at Low Head protect themselves from predators by making their burrows under the prickly shrub, African boxthorn. The introduced species was recently listed as a weed of national significance, so some of the shrub has now been removed and replaced with native vegetation....http://news.net/article/300277/Video2013-05-26 02:07:23 Protesters rallied in dozens of cities Saturday as part of a global protest against seed giant Monsanto and the genetically modified food it produces, organizers said. Organizers said "March Against Monsanto" protests were held in 52 countries and 436 cities, including Los Angel...http://news.net/article/299387/Video2013-05-26 00:32:05 It seems that the impossible has occurred: The nation's most congested city has become a model for traffic control. Yes, gridlock still prevails and drivers' blood pressure still spikes as LA's traffic arteries seize up during every morning and afternoon rush hour. Yet, with the...http://news.net/article/299238/Video2013-05-26 00:45:22 Syria's fighting has uprooted more than half of the country's 530,000 Palestinians — descendants of refugees from a Mideast conflict half a century ago — and their situation is becoming increasingly desperate, the head of a U.N. aid agency said Thursday. The Palestinians...http://news.net/article/300219/Video2013-05-23 13:52:34 Russia's top military officer has voiced skepticism about deeper nuclear arms cuts, saying they should require parallel cuts in non-nuclear precision weapons. Thursday's statement by chief of Russia's military General Staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, appeared to signal the Kremlin's rel...http://news.net/article/299804/Video2013-05-23 12:42:28 Germany's main opposition party marked a bittersweet 150th birthday on Thursday — trailing badly in polls ahead of September elections and hearing praise for its efforts to reform Europe's biggest economy from French President Francois Hollande, a recent left-wing winner who has lo...http://news.net/article/299659/Video2013-05-23 13:04:34 Saws and sledgehammers joined beer and barbecues — under covered porches — as a fixture of the first Memorial Day weekend at the Jersey shore since Superstorm Sandy roared through. Seven months after the devastating storm pummeled large swaths of the shore, the tourists ...http://news.net/article/299531/Video2013-05-25 23:37:01 The police investigation into Oscar Pistorius' killing of his girlfriend on Valentine's Day won't be completed until August, prosecutors said Saturday, ahead of the double-amputee Olympian's first court appearance in nearly four months. The National Prosecuting Authority said i...http://news.net/article/299510/Video2013-05-25 20:31:34 An American man is suspected of killing a family of four and is on the run in the Czech Republic and likely armed, officials said Thursday. The bodies of the four victims — identified by neighbors as a married couple and their two sons — were found by firefighters w...http://news.net/article/299315/Video2013-05-23 15:15:18 Vincenzo Nibali virtually wrapped up the Giro d'Italia title with a dominating solo performance to win the penultimate stage Saturday, leaving behind his rivals under a blizzard of snow on the race's final climb. Nibali attacked with 3 kilometers (under 2 miles) ...http://news.net/article/299261/Video2013-05-25 15:49:46 A brave scout leader who may have prevented further violence has emerged as an unlikely hero in the apparent terror attack that left one man dead on the streets of London. Ingrid Loyau-Kennett got off a bus and tried to reason with the two attackers after she tried to help the man ly...http://news.net/article/299226/Video2013-05-23 11:55:37 One evening last Labor Day weekend, 15-year-old Audrie Pott walked up the driveway of a classmate's home alongside other teenagers. She'd told her parents she was spending the night with a friend. The friend claimed she was sleeping at Audrie's. Instead, the girls were havi...http://news.net/article/299221/Video2013-05-25 20:31:00 Thousands of German football fans gathered at Wembley Stadium on Saturday and packed into central London ahead of the Champions League final. In the first all-German final, Borussia Dortmund plays Bayern Munich later Saturday in European football's showpiece match. "It's very importa...http://news.net/article/299171/Video2013-05-25 18:50:00 An American citizen killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2011 was arrested by Pakistani authorities three years earlier but escaped after being released on bail, officials said Thursday. The Obama administration revealed Wednesday that Jude Kenan Mohammad died in ...http://news.net/article/299168/Video2013-05-23 16:39:46 United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed Thursday that security must go hand-in-hand with development in Congo's troubled eastern city of Goma, arriving just hours after a rebel group halted fighting to allow the visit to proceed. The U.N. chief traveled to Congo, a...http://news.net/article/299165/Video2013-05-23 16:47:30 Banned from upcoming elections, Iran's former president has leveled harsh criticism at the Islamic Republic's clerical rulers, saying they are doing a poor job running the country, an Iranian pro-reform website reported late on Wednesday. The remarks by Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani...http://news.net/article/299164/Video2013-05-23 17:30:30 Suicide bombers in Niger detonated two car bombs simultaneously, one inside a military camp in the city of Agadez and another in the remote town of Arlit at a French-operated uranium mine, killing 26 people and injuring 30, according to officials in Niger and France. A survivi...http://news.net/article/299068/Video2013-05-24 02:16:05 The man who famously put aside his Big Mac to help rescue three women held captive in a Cleveland house said Friday that he's not endorsing a group of restaurants that are offering him free burgers for life and wants his name kept out of it. "I never told these people they could u...http://news.net/article/299064/Video2013-05-25 01:26:42 A Chechen immigrant shot to death in Florida after an altercation with an FBI agent implicated himself in a triple slaying that officials believe may have been connected to Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, authorities said. Ibragim Todashev's Chechen roots an...http://news.net/article/299063/Video2013-05-23 14:02:41