The World's Most Spoken Languages And Where They Are Spoken. This beautifully illustrated infographic (above), designed by South China Morning Postâs graphics director Alberto Lucas LopÃ©z, shows the most spoken known languages in the world and where theyâre spoken by the 6.3 billion people included in the study.
As NASA, and the world's media, tracked Skylab's progress in early July 1979, it seemed it could end up anywhere. In the early hours of the 12th of July, 1979, Skylab crashed on WA's south east coast, scattering debris across the Nullarbor and the eastern goldfields and causing a worldwide sensation. NASA officials arrived in Esperance to check out the wreckage.
Tropical cyclones pose a serious threat to Queensland communities and industry. Australia's deadliest tropical cyclone occurred on 4 March 1899 when a cyclone hit a pearling fleet in Bathurst Bay (north of Cooktown) and caused a massive storm surge accounting for 307 known fatalities.