Friday, May 24th, 2013

World

Australia pledges $25m for Taliban lure

Australia is among the first countries to donate towards a new fund designed to encourage the Taliban to lay down their guns in Afghanistan, pledging $25 million.
January 29, 2010, 6:13 am
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Man charged over monk bash death

Buu "Paul" Lieu, 48, died in hospital on Monday after being savagely bashed near Bibra Lake earlier this month.
January 28, 2010, 3:11 pm

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Chinese mountain is renamed Avatar

A city in central China has renamed a mountain after the US blockbuster movie Avatar, which set a Chinese box office record until its run in the country was cut short.
January 26, 2010, 12:44 pm

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Are there trees on Mars?

They might look like trees on Mars, but they're not.
January 21, 2010, 12:46 pm

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Clinton asks China to explain Google attack

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on China to explain Google's discovery of a "highly sophisticated" attack on its Chinese website aimed at e-mail accounts of human rights activists.
January 13, 2010, 12:45 pm

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Safety violations at Jetstar: reports

Top managers at Vietnamese budget airline Jetstar Pacific, part-owned by Australia's Qantas, violated maintenance regulations, according to official media reports.
January 13, 2010, 12:00 pm
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World's tallest skyscraper opens today

Dubai is set to open the world's tallest building amid tight security today, celebrating the tower as a bold feat on the world stage despite the city state's shaky financial footing.
January 4, 2010, 6:25 am

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England ready to pull out of Commonwealth Games over terror risk

England is poised to pull out of next year’s Commonwealth Games over fears that athletes will be victims of a terrorist attack, it has been revealed this morning.
December 30, 2009, 7:43 am

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All eyes on Murdoch in 2010

All eyes will be on Rupert Murdoch next year as the media mogul tries to engineer the biggest structural change in the media industry in three decades.
December 29, 2009, 8:41 am

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Strange light in Norwegian sky sparks mystery

A eerie turquoise light spotted over Norway has sparked a mystery, with suggestions it could be a missile test.
December 10, 2009, 8:17 am
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WA surfer ready to stare down a monster

Former WA pro-surfer Paul “Antman” Paterson hesitates when asked to describe what it feels like to face down the monster waves currently crashing down at Waimea Bay on Hawaii’s Oahu’s North Shore.
December 8, 2009, 12:18 pm

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Giant waves crash on Hawaii’s beaches

Thousands of spectators and surfers are flocking to Hawaii’s beaches to see the biggest waves in years crash ashore.
December 8, 2009, 10:05 am

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Turnbull and Bishop fall out over ballot

Ousted federal Liberal leader Malcolm Turnbull and his former deputy Julie Bishop reportedly have fallen out over this week's tumultuous ructions inside the party.
December 3, 2009, 5:21 am

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Turnbull dumped, Abbott new leader

Tony Abbott has set the Opposition on a collision course with a double dissolution election, using his first press conference to vow to send the Government’s emissions trading scheme to a parliamentary inquiry.
December 1, 2009, 6:45 am

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Winfrey set to quit

Oprah Winfrey’s production company says Winfrey will announce on Friday that her talk show will end in 2011 after its 25th season on the air.
November 20, 2009, 8:32 am

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Madoff jewels, clothes up for auction

The trappings of Bernard Madoff's once luxurious lifestyle - jewels, furs and expensive trinkets - will be auctioned on Saturday in New York to benefit victims of the Wall Street swindler.
November 11, 2009, 6:55 am

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Drunk woman's near miss with Boston train

A drunk woman who fell on the tracks at a Boston train station has walked away without injury and is now resting at home.
November 10, 2009, 12:44 pm

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New hope for giant stinky flower

Deep in the jungles of south-east Asia blooms the world's biggest flower - a massive fleshy orb designed by nature to attract insects by mimicking the colour and stench of rotting meat.
November 10, 2009, 10:10 am

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'Funemployed' targeted in tourism boost

US tourism chiefs are targeting credit-crunched jobless people with time on their hands - the so-called funemployed.
November 10, 2009, 6:41 am

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Aussie troops smash insurgent network

Australian special forces troops have smashed an insurgent network in southern Afghanistan, seizing arms, ammunition, opium and stolen Afghan National Army uniforms.
November 5, 2009, 10:13 am

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