Australians are being urged to collect free fire ant treatment kits from select Bunnings stores this weekend to help the fight against one of the country's most damaging pests.

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Australia is at serious risk of losing its fight against its most formidable biosecurity threat, with a $2 billion fire ant ...

A curious old folk practice claimed that contact with ants could transfer their energy and vitality to humans. This belief ...

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The Jack Ma Foundation said on Thursday it would donate HK$30 million (US$3.9 million) to support families, firefighters and rescuers affected by a deadly fire at a housing estate in Hong Kong’s Tai ...

HONG KONG — A major fire tore through multiple high-rise towers at a housing complex in Hong Kong on Wednesday, killing dozens of people, the city's chief executive, John Lee, said, with 279 people ...

Feeding bread to a donkey to treat whooping cough, rubbing a black snail on a wart and impaling it on a thorn are two of the hundreds of remarkable rural Irish remedies once believed to cure ailments.