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Taronga Zoo hails miracle baby
BigPond News
Sydney's miracle baby elephant has taken his first steps at Taronga Zoo but there's no guarantees of his long-term survival. The male calf was delivered earlier yesterday, much to the astonishment of zoo staff who mistakenly believed their newest ...
"Dead" baby elephant calf born alive in Sydney zooReuters
Experts had said the survival of the baby elephant after six days of labour ...BBC News
Wonder elephant takes first stepsNinemsn
ABC Online -Herald Sun -Special Broadcasting Service
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The Guardian
Corey Haim: death of former child star and 1980s teen idol
The Guardian
The life and career of the former child star and 1980s teen idol Corey Haim might be seen as a succession of cliches. From the early, hugely promising screen appearances to the swift rise as a teen pin-up in movies such as The Lost Boys, ...
Corey Haim Said He 'Wouldn't Change Anything' About His PastMTV.com
'Lost Boys' actor Corey Haim dead in Calif. at 38The Associated Press
Celebrities react to Corey Haim death via TwitterEntertainment Weekly
People Magazine -Hollywood.com -Globe and Mail
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Macarthur Chronicle Campbelltown
Hairdresser has close shave with cancer
Mordialloc Chelsea Leader
AN EDITHVALE hairdresser has set an impressive target of raising $10000 for the World's Greatest Shave this month. Julie Camm of Hairven by the Bay will have her locks lopped off on March 9 to raise money for the Leukaemia Foundation. ...
Michael's tribute to foundationBundaberg NewsMail
A close shaveBerwick News
The Coast's big shaveFraser Coast Chronicle
Milton Ulladulla Times -Narromine News and Trangie Advocate -Tenterfield Star
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Globe and Mail
Wheelchair bashing: victim's mother 'devastated'
Sydney Morning Herald
The mother of a Canadian wheelchair-bound man punched, stomped and beaten with a metal bar at a Sydney railway station says she is "devastated". The vicious attack, captured on security video, has made headlines across Canada. ...
Appeal after 'cowardly' attack on disabled touristABC Online
Wheelchair-bound Canadian brutally bashed at Sydney train stationThe Australian
Mother can't understand beating of son in wheelchair in AustraliaThe Canadian Press
CTV.ca -NSW Police Online (press release) -Global Toronto
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Telegraph.co.uk
Israel under pressure over East Jerusalem homes
BBC News
Israel is coming under growing international pressure following its approval of new housing for Israelis in occupied East Jerusalem. Britain, France, the EU and the Arab League have all added their protests against the decision. ...
Biden condemns Mideast settlement moveSydney Morning Herald
EU calls on Israel top reverse settlement decisionAFP
Israeli housing plan threatens potential peace talks with PalestiniansXinhua
Telegraph.co.uk -Ynetnews -The Hindu
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ABC Online
Vic court opens up compensation claims for bully victims
ABC Online
TONY EASTLEY: A landmark ruling by the Victorian Supreme Court has paved the way for victims of young bullies to seek compensation. The court has overturned a decision by a Victims of Crime tribunal which refused to compensate a girl who'd been bullied ...
Bullying victim wins $290000 payoutHerald Sun
Bullied teenager gets $290000 in settlementThe Age
Girl tormented and abused by child bullies wins landmark compensationNEWS.com.au
Sydney Morning Herald -ABC Online -The Age
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WA today
West Australian tree man Richard Pennicuik continues protest
Herald Sun
A WESTERN Australian man has refused to abandon his perch in a gum tree, despite his high-powered attorney advising him to end his 93-day protest. Lawyer John Hammond met his client, tree-man Richard Pennicuik, ...
Tree man's gum an eastern states 'widow maker'WA today
Council gets tough with 'tree man'PerthNow
Innocent victims of the Tree Man's crusadeSydney Morning Herald (blog)

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ABC Online
Climate balance urged at ABC
The Australian
THE chairman of the ABC, Maurice Newman, has told about 250 leading journalists, program-makers and managers at the ABC that the media had displayed "group-think" on the issue of climate change in a speech that led to a feisty exchange with senior ...
ABC head wants fair go for scepticsSydney Morning Herald
ABC chair criticises climate change coverageABC Online

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Brisbane Times
Rudd faces Senate strife on maternity leave
The Australian
KEVIN Rudd will face a Senate ambush aimed at sweetening his 18-week paid maternity leave scheme as Tony Abbott's $2.7 billion six-month-leave policy wins support from the Greens, and a sympathetic hearing from the two independents. ...
Senate thwarting ALPHerald Sun
A five-minister barrage wheeled out for AbbottThe Age
Rudd doesn't respect the Senate: MPsSydney Morning Herald
NEWS.com.au -ABC Online -Adelaidenow
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The Age
Rudd faces Senate strife on maternity leave
The Australian
KEVIN Rudd will face a Senate ambush aimed at sweetening his 18-week paid maternity leave scheme as Tony Abbott's $2.7 billion six-month-leave policy wins support from the Greens, and a sympathetic hearing from the two independents. ...
A five-minister barrage wheeled out for AbbottThe Age
Coalition under fire for blocking billsSydney Morning Herald
Abbott still has lots to learnABC Online
The Australian -The Australian -Sydney Morning Herald
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CBC.ca
Police tracked Bali bomb terrorist Dulmatin for weeks
The Australian
INDONESIAN police were shadowing Bali bombing planner Dulmatin for several weeks before shooting him and two other suspected terrorists in execution-style killings in Jakarta. Tuesday's raids, which came just a day before President Susilo Bambang ...
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to jail people-smugglers for five yearsHerald Sun
Bali bomber led new terrorist gangSydney Morning Herald
Suspect's Death Leads to Questions on Indonesia's Border SecurityNew York Times
AFP -The Age -Xinhua
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Madden censured second time
The Age
PLANNING Minister Justin Madden yesterday became the first minister in a century to be censured twice by Parliament, after a no-confidence motion against him was carried, 19 votes to 18. Upper house opposition leader David Davis moved the motion, ...
Planning minister censured againABC Online
No confidence motion against Planning Minister Justin Madden under wayHerald Sun
Cause for concernBerwick News

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BigPond News
Nine charged over mafia-style drug op
Sydney Morning Herald
Nine men have been charged over a multi-million dollar, mafia-style drug empire smashed by police in dawn raids across Sydney and Melbourne. Wearing bullet-proof vests, more than 200 police simultaneously raided homes in southwest Sydney and Mildura in ...
Police bust 'Mafia-style drug ring'The Age
Organised crime family targeted in raids: policeABC Online
'Italian Mafia drug ring' busted by policeNEWS.com.au
eTaiwan News -Herald Sun -NSW Police Online (press release)
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Times Online
Jihad Jane: American blonde accused of terror plot
Times Online
A blonde American woman who went under the online alias "Jihad Jane" has been accused of plotting to murder a Swedish cartoonist for drawing a picture of the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog, it emerged today. Colleen LaRose, a 46-year-old ...
Muslim convert Colleen LaRose, aka Jihad Jane, faces terror chargesThe Guardian
'Jihad Jane's' Arrest Raises Fears About Homegrown TerroristsABC News
US woman linked to al-Qaeda murder plotThe Age
Washington Post -Voice of America -New York Times
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ABC Online
Bligh, Beattie 'unaware of secret payment'
ABC Online
The Premier of Queensland, Anna Bligh, and the state's former leader, Peter Beattie, have both given evidence at a corruption trial in Brisbane. Businessman Harold Shand, 58, has pleaded not guilty to corruptly making a secret payment to ...
Nuttall didn't declare $60000: BlighSydney Morning Herald
Nuttall 'couldn't influence state', says former Premier Peter BeattieCourier Mail
Peter Beattie gives evidence in corruption trial of Harold ShandThe Australian
ABC Online
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ABC Online
Govt to rip out foil insulation
Sydney Morning Herald
More than 50000 households had foil insulation fitted under the botched rebate scheme - now it's all to be either ripped out or made safe. Changes to the federal government's insulation scheme, which has been linked to four deaths and more than 100 ...
Foil insulation to be removed from homesABC Online
Greg Combet vows to hold deadly home insulation companies accountableCourier Mail

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Oneindia
Gunmen storm US charity in Pakistan, kill five
Sydney Morning Herald
Militants armed with guns and grenades stormed the offices of a US-based Christian charity in Pakistan on Wednesday, killing five aid workers in an attack blamed on Islamist insurgents. The gunmen besieged the World Vision building near Oghi town in ...
5 Pakistani Aid Workers Killed in AttackCBS News
Charity staff killed in militant attackABC Online
Militants kill charity workerHerald Sun
Xinhua -CNN International -The Associated Press
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ABC Online
Government 'killing the River Murray'
Herald Sun
THE South Australian Government has been accused of slowly killing the River Murray, despite announcing a deal for an extra 70 billion litres of floodwater. Paul Sinclair from the Australian Conservation Foundation said the Government should buy ...
SA govt inaction killing Murray: ACFSydney Morning Herald
More northern floodwaters pledged for MurrayABC Online
New water pipeline for New South WalesTrenchless Australasia
ABC Online
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Conman Wayne Charters guilty of duping lover out of $150k
NEWS.com.au
A CONMAN who claimed to be an ASIO agent, duping his lover out of almost $150000, has been found guilty of fraud. A Victorian County Court jury took less than a day to find Wayne Charters guilty of five counts of obtaining his wife Karen Roberts' ...
Man who posed as ASIO agent guilty of fraudABC Online
Conman Wayne Charters guilty of fraud after fleeing with wife's cashHerald Sun

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Parents demand school asbestos answers
ABC Online
Parents at a north Queensland high school say they want answers from Education Queensland about whether their children have been exposed to asbestos fibres. Yesterday, students at Mackay North State High were given a letter telling them that asbestos ...
Queensland schools in asbestos riskBrisbane Times
Minister under attackMackay Daily Mercury

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