Australia’s new American submarines are all haunted, according to a French historian. “That is why they are giving them to you,” said Jacques St Just Gateau, Professor of Naval Economics at the prestigious Ecole Bateau in Paris. “These boats are all stalked by the ghosts of nuclear accidents. The Americans never reveal their nuclear accident…

Science Desk NEW research has shown that Australia is moving north faster than was thought. The island continent, which broke off from Gondwanaland about 33 million years ago, has been generally drifting north on its own tectonic plate ever since. It used to be thought that this drift was at about 7 centimetres a year…