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Australia's wealthy Jan Cameron is back in the retail game with a discounter she bought last year. The profits will go to her other passion: animal welfare.

No secrets here. Grandma Dee always speaks her mind. My opinion on the upcoming fight between Anderson Silva and Chael Sonnen is that my favorite man-child fighter, Anderson, will make Chael Sonnen look like the adult who chooses to chastise his child in the middle of a super market. Huh, you may ask? What on earth is Granny thinking? I am thinking that out of all the no-win situations in life ...

All current Australian marsupials can trace their ancestry back to South America, according to a new study by German researchers from the University of Munster's Institute of Experimental Pathology."While marsupials like the Australian tammar wallaby and the South American opossum seem to be quite different, research by Maria Nilsson and colleagues at the University of Munster… shows ...

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas – A 2-year-old boy was found dead in a hot, locked car after he was missing for hours Tuesday in northeast Harris County. The child, 2-year-old Jayden Woodward, lived in a home with his mother, her boyfriend and the boyfriend’s 78-year-old mother near Hartley and Mooney. Jayden was left in the care of the elderly woman while the mother and boyfriend went to work. The ...

( Public Library of Science ) Debates have raged for decades about how to arrange the Australian and South American branches of the marsupial family tree.

PERTH'S four new Tasmanian devils have been officially named by PerthNow readers.

In a recent feature in Australian Life Scientist , Fiona Wylie examines " how next-generation sequencing could save the Tasmanian devil " from the perils of devil facial tumor disease — or DFTD — which has put Sarcophilus harrisii on the endangered species list since 2008. DFTD cancer is spread "by the physical transfer of living cancer cells through biting," representing a rare mode of disease ...

If you knew me on mlive when the Detroit Lions announced that Martin Mayhew had been promoted to general manager, and that an exhaustive search had not been completed, and yet the Villen’s deputy would be elevated, you know how improbable this article really is. Let’s face it, what Detroit Lions fans really wanted the ownership to announce that senior vice president Martin Mayhew, another front ...

A Frayser tattoo artist is once again offering free tattoos in exchange for donated backpacks filled with school supplies for MCS students.

Australia captain Ricky Ponting may have scored just one Test century in the past 12 months but England counterpart Andrew Strauss believes there’s plenty of devil still left in the Tasmanian.