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Top gong for cancer vaccine

THE Australian-pioneered cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil has been awarded the pharmaceutical industry's equivalent of a Nobel Prize.

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Skin cancer vaccine nearer

A SKIN cancer vaccine may be available within 10 years after successful animal trials, former Australian of the Year, Professor Ian Frazer, has announced.

Google Rome of old in 3D

GOOGLE EARTH 4.3 now lets you browse Ancient Rome as it was around AD320 with flyovers of the Coliseum and 6000 other monuments.

Videos for teachers

TeacherTube is a video sharing site for educators at all teaching levels. Spend some time checking out great resources to use in your classroom.

Pay great teachers $100,000

GREAT teachers should have annual salaries of $100,000 because they are shaping the next generation, celebrity scientist Dr Karl Kruszelnicki says.

Use the News

READING the news improves reading and comprehension and sharpens thinking skills so here's a daily worksheet to use in the classroom.

Australia must move quickly

I APPRECIATE that many Australians will debate whether I still have the right to call myself one of you. I was born in Melbourne, was educated in Britain and now make my home in Manhattan.

Quick reads about Authors

YOU may have read a book in Robert Muchamore's Cherub series, or one of Andy Griffiths's Bumageddon books. Meet the authors on video.

Baz Luhrmann finishes epic

AUSTRALIA - a $130m romantic adventure set in the outback - follows Lady Sarah Ashley who inherits a cattle station called Faraway Downs in the mid-1930s, before World War II.

Headst@rt blog

Poppy Masselos, Headst@rt editor, keeps you informed about printed and online resources as well as the latest educational news.

Multimedia - film

Shakespeare gets a new twist, making Ten Canoes, staying safe in the surf, stars on the set of Opal Dreams, visiting HMAS Adelaide . . .

Multimedia - audio

Listen to Possum Magic author Mem Fox, educator Ian Lillicoe and Goosebumps author RL Stine at the 2006 Brisbane Writer's Festival

Obama win powered by Web 2.0

BARACK Obama was elected because of his internet networking which connects people to his cause, internet news pioneer Arianna Huffington says.

Obama carries heavy burden

US President-elect Barack Obama today confronted the huge economic and military job that lies ahead as the planet rejoiced in America's election of its first black commander-in-chief.

Young Reviewer awards

The Courier-Mail Young Reviewer of the Year for 2008 is Zoe Coleman of Year 6, Camp Hill State School. Zoe has won books to the value of $1500.

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IN an ancient palace, in the isolated Himalayan nation of Bhutan, Oxford-educated prince, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, 28, now wears the Raven Crown. He became the world's youngest monarch in an ancient ceremony. Slideshow: The coronation of Bhutan's new king

BARDON'S St Joseph's Primary School's Year 7 students have been researching the lives of Australian soldiers with the help of the Australian War Memorial, which they visited in September. They commemorated Remembrance Day by blessing a mural called "In Diggers' Boots". Slideshow: In Diggers' Boots dedication on Remembrance Day.

The President Elect of the United States of America, Barack Obama, doesn't move into the White House until January 20. He also has to write an inauguration speech to top the one he made on election night which electrified the world.
Slideshow: Barack Obama's Election Night Victory Speech highlights

AUTHORS is a little bit naughty (because it has Bum series writer Andy Griffiths). But our new series of interviews with leading children's book authors is nutritious fast superfood for the brain. Andy Griffiths, Robert Muchamore, Matt Ottley and Randa Abdel-Fattah talk about their new books.
Watch AUTHORS think out loud.

You may be surprised to find that the Gateway Bridge is held up largely by wire. Watch a video of Gateway duplication constuction manager Peter Rotolone explaining the physics of bridge building.
And try your hand at building the Story Bridge from digital building blocks.

New king for new democracy

THE Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has crowned a new king, placing a charismatic Oxford-educated bachelor as head of state of the world's latest democracy.