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A fire at a power station in Grenada causes a power outage for the entire island of Carriacou.
2023-04-28

A radioactive capsule is missing along a 1,400-kilometre stretch of highway in Western Australia.
2023-01-27

Scientists from the University of Western Australia announce that a seagrass meadow of the species "Posidonia australis" covering 200 sqkm, approximately three times the size of Manhattan, found off of Western Australia's Shark Bay, actually belongs to one plant, making it the largest known plant on Earth.
2022-06-1

The Labor Party wins the state election in Western Australia, in one of the biggest landslide victories in the country's history.
2021-03-13

Anglo-Australian mining corporation Rio Tinto admits blowing up the 46,000-year-old Juukan Gorge caves in Pilbara, Western Australia, on May 24. The firm issues an apology to Aboriginal Australians who are the traditional owners of the site, saying "We are sorry for the distress we have caused".
2020-05-31

A major power station in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi is shelled by militants.
2016-01-9

Tropical Cyclone Olwyn intensifies with the potential to reach Category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson scale before making landfall in Western Australia's Pilbara region on March 13.
2015-03-12

At least 7 people are killed in an attack by militants, suspected to be Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, on a power station in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. Ten hostages are reportedly taken by the militants.
2013-04-2

Asylum seekers at the Christmas Island Immigration Reception and Processing Centre off the Indian Ocean coast of Western Australia start a hunger strike in protest at their deportation to Malaysia.
2011-08-6

Thieves tapping a Pemex oil pipeline cause a diesel fuel spill south of Tijuana in Mexico.
2011-02-9