Tuck your pants into your shoes, because this is a race with one of Australia's most terrifying creepy crawlies. The Story Bridge Hotel in Brisbane, Queensland hosted their 35th annual "Cockroach Race ...

Gambling-mad Australians, teased for willingly betting on two flies crawling up a wall, have expanded their horizons -- now they’re placing bets on cockroaches. A record crowd of more than 7,000 ...

As someone who lived in the South for over 10 years, it was hard for me to imagine anyone wanting to spend enough time with roaches to race them. And then I remembered that I used to race snails from ...

Pest control workers have seen a 30 per cent increase in requests to exterminate the hideous insects since the beginning of spring. According to The Pest Company, which is based in Queensland — home ...

A Canadian woman who has been living in Australia for almost seven years has revealed what scares her the most about the country. Ioana has lived in Queensland, Victoria and New South Wales during her ...

An Australian man who went to the doctors ended up having a large cockroach removed from his ear. Before seeking the advice of medics, Hendrik Helmer had tried to remove the nearly inch-long pest with ...

THIS is the bizarre moment that creepy Frankenstein-style cyborg cockroaches come to life and form an army of bugs. A University of Queensland student in Australia, Lachlan Fitzgerald, fires up their ...

Doctors had to surgically remove a 0.8 inch cockroach from a man's ear after it crawled inside while he was asleep, according to Australian media reports Friday. Hendrik Helmer told the state-owned ...

But is it all bad? Lack of capital has not stopped many Aussie entrepreneurs, and there have been some major success stories in the last few years. Prominent Silicon Valley investor and mentor Paul ...

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