Thursday 11th March, 2010
'Sophisticated' family drug operation
Daily TelegraphHE appeared to be a legitimate businessman but police allege Angelo Mammone is the head of a family-run multi-million-dollar drug and firearms ring.
Youth questioned over wheelchair attack
Daily TelegraphA SECOND Sydney youth has been questioned over the bashing of a disabled Canadian tourist who was beaten with a metal bar ripped from his own wheelchair.
Indonesia to jail people-smugglers
news.com.auunderstands Indonesian authorities are preparing to deal with another situation - the 248 Australia-bound Sri Lankan Tamils refusing to get off their boat in the Indonesian port of Merak after a four-...
Hospitals putting kids at risk
news.com.auThe Wiggles entertain patients at Sydney Children's Hospital. Overcrowding in some hospitals has led to children being put on adult wards / The Daily Telegraph
Webb set to miss first game
Daily TelegraphWebb trained with North Queensland's 19-man squad on Wednesday afternoon but a small calf tear is still plaguing the bulldozing Queensland Origin forward. Even if scans give him the all-clear, Webb is...
Sheedy will get to see Hindy in action
Daily TelegraphHE HAD not seen or heard of Nathan Hindmarsh just a few weeks ago - now GWS coach Kevin Sheedy will get to finally see what he has missed.
Children at risk in hospitals
Daily TelegraphBy allowing adults in the same wards as children, administrators and NSW Health are defying their own protocols as well as recommendations made last year by Commissioner Peter Garling.Just last week P...
Birthing miracle for baby elephant
Daily TelegraphThe birth of the 90kg to 100kg male calf has been labelled a miracle after every scientific test - and even the behaviour of other elephants - indicated he was dead.Taronga announced on Monday the bab...
Get ready for the Grand Final festival
Daily TelegraphSYDNEY will be rugby league's celebration central for the week leading up to the Grand Final this year thanks to a plan hatched by the NRL and the State Government.
Hooker has some tough boots to follow
Daily TelegraphHOOKER Michael Ennis will have first crack at the Bulldogs' goalkicking duties with Bryson Goodwin struggling to recover from a toe injury that has plagued the winger all pre-season.
Nine charged over mafia-style empire
news.com.auNINE men have been charged over a multi-million dollar, mafia-style drug empire smashed by police in dawn raids across Sydney and Melbourne.
Second suspect in wheelchair bashing
news.com.auA SECOND Sydney youth's being questioned over the bashing of a disabled Canadian tourist who was beaten with a metal bar ripped from his own wheelchair.
Hindy - I'm a bundle of nerves
Daily TelegraphHEY there footy fans. The season kicks off tomorrow night and I am just a bundle of nerves. As I end the off-season and try to get my head right for the first game, I have to admit that my head is all...
Get ready for the Grand Final festival
Daily TelegraphSYDNEY will be rugby league's celebration central for the week leading up to the Grand Final this year thanks to a plan hatched by the NRL and the State Government.
Big Willie ready to cut loose
Daily TelegraphHIS skin is thicker than the crocodiles that infest Townsville's waterways, so North Queensland coach Neil Henry reckons a hostile Suncorp Stadium holds no fears for Willie Mason.
Why Gal will stay at Sharks for life
Daily TelegraphIt's called loyalty. When the Cronulla enforcer sat down for contract talks this week with Sharks CEO Richard Fisk and his agent David Riolo, he kept thinking about the personal pride of being a one-c...
A whole Lote love
Daily TelegraphLOTE Tuqiri stepped off a 24-hour flight from London, navigated his way through customs with two young children and walked straight into the open arms of Sydney, the Wests Tigers and rugby league. Reu...
De Gois won't be thrown to the Dogs
Daily TelegraphTHE gamble backfired badly against the Bulldogs in the first weekend of the finals last season but Newcastle coach Rick Stone is not about to risk making the same mistake twice with his star hooker Is...
A salute to brave soldiers
Sydney Morning HeraldThe director of The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow, delivered the best moments of one of the best Academy Awards this week with her double Oscar win. There is the moment when she peeks out of the corner...
Miracle they won't forget
Sydney Morning HeraldHE is set to rewrite the textbooks. Sydney's ''miracle'' Asian elephant calf, born alive two days after he was declared dead in the womb, is the first elephant known to have survived such a protracte...
Pakistanis banned for life
Sydney Morning HeraldFEUDING former Pakistan captains Mohammad Yousuf and Younus Khan have been banned from representing their country for life because of their bickering during and after the disastrous tour of Australia,...
I'm not here for a haircut
Sydney Morning HeraldMAYBE it was the jet lag doing some of the talking, but after flying into Sydney yesterday to spend his first day as a Wests Tiger, Lote Tuqiri could see no reason why he couldn't be toasting his firs...
Yudhoyono calls for change
Sydney Morning HeraldINDONESIA'S President has broken out of the polite ceremonials of a state visit to Australia to tell us bluntly the central problem with the relationship. It is the old ideas we each carry in our hea...
Bali bomber led new terrorist gang
Sydney Morning HeraldINDONESIAN authorities are in hot pursuit of Umar Patek, the last alumnus of the Bali bombing terrorist cell who remains at large after the death this week of his accomplice Dulmatin. It is believed ...
Abbott's parent tax as costly as carbon
Sydney Morning HeraldLARGE corporations could pay as much under Tony Abbott's parental leave plan as they would in the early years of the government's emissions trading scheme, which the Coalition voted down saying it was...
Why Clarke could take no more of Bingle
news.com.auLate last week, a furious Michael Clarke phoned fiancee Lara Bingle from New Zealand after learning that she had sold an exclusive tell-all interview to a women's magazine.Sources said the Australian ...
Dog owners barking over grooming
ABCOrganisers of Britain's famous Crufts dog show are cracking down on owners who touch up their show dogs with cosmetics or hair dye. The dog show has been in the news since the BBC decided to stop cov...
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