A broken jaw playing country rugby league led farmer Ross Thompson to get serious about shearing sheep in the northern New South Wales town of Inverell. It was the 1990s when some 10,000 shearers ...

The Australian wool industry is plagued with stories of drug taking and animal abuse in shearing sheds while wool producers are battling negative publicity and blowback from overseas markets.

George Shearing, the elegant pianist who expanded the boundaries of jazz by adding an orchestral sensibility and a mellow aesthetic to the music, has died. He was 91. Shearing died Monday of ...

The government and industry have announced a joint $75,000 fund to support welfare training for shearers, but advocates say ...

This is not your average beauty school. Your clients can be pretty cranky. Sometimes they’ll even walk out mid-haircut. And you have to hold them down -- with only your legs -- while wielding an ...

A heated debate has erupted online over whether sheep shearing is ethical or exploitative. Alaina Wood (@itsthegarbagequeen), whose bio says she's a sustainability scientist and climate activist, took ...

Shearing was born in 1919 in the Battersea area of London. Congenitally blind, he was the youngest of nine children. His father delivered coal and his mother cleaned trains at night after caring for ...

Didling Farm’s flock manager, Matt Blyth, has seen a marked improvement in lamb weights and survival since he started shearing ewes before lambing five years ago. The indoor lambing flock of 1,050 ...

WELLINGTON , New Zealand - A New Zealand farm lobby group says sheep shearing has the potential to become an Olympic demonstration sport. Just don't count on seeing it at London next summer or Rio in ...

The engine oil coursing through your car is so much more than just a lubricant for its moving parts. Engine oil protects the components under the hood, helps dissipate heat, and works to keep your ...

Pianist and composer Sir George Shearing has died, at age 91. Born blind, Shearing was a self-taught musician, the youngest of nine children of a London coal man. In a career spent almost entirely in ...

Dr. Steven Shearing, a pioneer in cataract surgery and the husband of former Nevada Supreme Court Justice Miriam Shearing, died from a ruptured aneurism Sunday night. "He was one of the most brilliant ...