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Calm killer caught taxi with her body in suitcase
The teenager casually wheels a large black suitcase out to a waiting taxi. As he and the driver heft the case into the boot, the young man lies to explain the bag's surprising weight and bulging contents, telling the driver it's ''full of laptops and electrical gear''. CCTV footage, later tendered as evidence, shows the 19-year-old Daniel Stani-Reginald ...
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School fundraising shows divide
Teacher Tim Creighton had a simple goal: raise a few hundred dollars to buy some camera equipment for his students. But fund-raising has been a tough ask at Kingswood High, near Penrith, which has a large number of students from disadvantaged backgrounds and among the lowest rate of parent contributions and other private sources of income of any public school in Sydney. Mr Creighton found a ...
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Call for lessons on steroid abuse
Senior school head Michael Parker refused to comment on the student, who has since graduated, but said: ''Good men can make bad mistakes.'' This month in Brisbane, two students, aged 16 and 17, were expelled from St Joseph's Nudgee College and charged by police for possession and supply of steroids. Australian Medical Association president Steve Hambleton said the use ...
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Dollar dilemma below parity and going south
Winners and losers: Living with a lower dollar value. After spending most of the past two years more valuable than the greenback, the Australian dollar has finally been driven well below parity with its American counterpart. The exchange rate fell to about US97¢ on Friday night, its lowest point since June last year, after taking a pounding on currency markets. The main reason for the ...
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Chinese websites a new challenge to retailers
As Australia's major retailers ramp up their online sales channels, pouring millions into their websites, new competition from China's booming e-commerce industry looms. China's online retail market is now the world's second largest after the United States, with an estimated $210 billion in revenue last year, according to consultancy firm McKinsey & Company. The push ...
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Police official About $1 million worth of jewels stolen from hotel near Cannes Film Festival
PARIS - Suspected thieves ripped out a small safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with about $1 million worth of jewelry inside, a French police official said Friday. Cmdr. Bernard Mascarelli, a judicial police spokesman in the nearby city of Nice, said the robbery at the Novotel hotel overnight took place in the room of a representative of Swiss-based ...
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Abbott GST is back on the table
An Abbott government? Photo: Christopher Pearce Tony Abbott has revealed the goods and services tax could be included in a full review of the tax system if the Coalition is elected, raising the prospect the 10 per cent rate could be lifted or the tax broadened to include food, education and health services. The decision to review the controversial tax, which Labor ducked with its Henry tax ...
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Gates back on top of fortune list
Bill Gates is once again the world's richest person. The 57-year-old co-founder of Microsoft recaptured the title from Mexican telecoms tycoon Carlos Slim this week, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. It is the first time Gates has held the mantle since 2007, with his fortune valued at $US72.7 billion, up 16 per cent on the latest year as Microsoft shares have surged to a ...
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Beware the intrusion of the market
Is there anything wrong with a free market in human kidneys? Why shouldn't a woman rent her womb to the highest bidder for a surrogate pregnancy? What's the problem with schools paying reluctant kids to read books; or with wealthy inmates paying for an upgrade to a better prison cell? What about the $US30 billion trade in life insurance policies, in which investors bet on strangers ...
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Boys need education on steroid harm
Crisis point: WADA has called for every Australian school student to be taught about the dangers of drugs in sport. The World Anti-Doping Agency has called for every Australian school student to be taught about the dangers of performance-enhancing drugs, saying children are putting their health at risk by taking steroids and sports supplements. WADA president John Fahey said revelations of ...
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Daft Punk a no-show in Wee Waa as album launched
Tiny New South Wales town Wee Waa has gone mad for French electronic outfit Daft Punk as a mass marketing campaign takes hold. Music editor Peter Vincent ...
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Bigorexia school sports big drug fight
Schoolboys wanting a hit of the latest bulk-building product or pill need not travel far. At The Scots College, in Sydney's east, protein powders are supplied by teachers to adolescent athletes in the school gym. A sponsor of the school's rugby sevens tournament is Ultimate Sports Nutrition, whose products include ''hardcore'' anabolics, meal replacements and ...
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Bruised dollar hit by another major sell-off
The Australian dollar has been hit by another sudden sell-off, falling more than half a cent this afternoon as investors flee the currency. The dollar fell as low as 97.32 US cents, a level not seen since early June 2012, and down from 99.12 US cents about midday on Thursday. It's been a particularly volatile 24 hours for the currency, which was fetching 99.12 US cents as late as ...
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Sid saved from life of silence and pain
On his first run, Sid swung wide and hit a submerged log. He was flown to Sydney Children's Hospital where an MRI revealed he had partially dislocated the base of his skull from his neck bones. A few millimetres either way and his injury could have been fatal. Fitted with a life-saving halo to hold his spine and head in place, Sid spent six weeks in intensive care recovering - and months ...
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Diet or exercise why not do both
Meal preparation time makes way for fitness sessions or vice-versa, the study found. Nutritionist Susie Burrell believes it highlights how being "time poor" is a key factor in health. "People are so rushed with family commitments, long working hours and commuting that it is not a case of not wanting to eat well and exercise but fitting it all in," Ms Burrell said. Nearly two ...
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Charities miss online opportunity
While 50 per cent of not-for-profit (NFP) organisations surveyed as part of the Westpac Community Confidence Index made use of social media for promotional purposes, the report finds the "online channel still remains under-utilised when it comes to generating income"."This is an opportunity for not-for-profits to use the skills they're getting through their reach of social ...
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Body-bag murderer jailed 45 years
And while the driver was curious why the bag he helped hoist into the boot was so heavy, the chatty 19-year-old explained it was simply full of electronics equipment. The Supreme Court heard yesterday the dark suitcase really contained the body of a young woman, the victim of a remorseless killer who spent his spare time schooling himself on society's most violent and depraved criminals. ...
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Legal win in school fees fight
THE parents of four girls sued for refusing to pay $20,533 in private school fees - after their eldest daughter got a lower than expected HSC result - have won the right to a new ...
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Driver bashed after asking for fare
The 17-year-old girl allegedly attacked the driver, 64, after she boarded the bus with three other girls at Minto Railway Station around 12.30am.When asked to pay the bus fare the group began to abuse and intimidate the driver before attacking him when he demanded they leave the bus at Ingleburn Railway Station.Police were called to the scene and arrested the girl in the Ingleburn CBD.She was ...
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Most sun in 154 years of records
IT'S been a near-record Indian summer. Today's Sydney forecast of 20C will take our tally to 18 days in a row of 20C-plus temperatures - the second most sunny days in May in 154 years of data being ...
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Woman dead after driveway accident
Police said the 66-year-old woman died after the girl started a Ford Courier while it was still in gear around 4.30pm yesterday. The ute rolled forward, hit two other vehicles and struck the woman while she was standing in the driveway of a house on Talbot Rd, Silverwater, near Newcastle.She was trapped under the Courier and family members rushed to help her.Emergency services arrived at the ...
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Madeleine McCann case Scotland Yard identifies new leads
In this picture from 2012, the parents of Madeleine McCann show with an artist's impression of how their daughter might look at the age of nine. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty ...
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Move to return remains of Admiral Arthur Phillip to Australia for state funeral
IN the past three months they've found the bones of King Richard III and unearthed Alfred the Great, so some in Britain think the mood is right to exhume Australia's founding father and return him for a state funeral. There's just one problem. What lies beneath the weathered headstone of Admiral Arthur Phillip, the first governor of the then-British colony of New South Wales and the ...
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Man jailed over brutal rape and murder
Meadowbank 2114 Family members of a young Sydney woman who was raped and killed have expressed disappointment at the sentence handed to her killer.Tosha Thakkar, 24, came to Australia from India and was studying accounting when she was murdered in 2011. Then aged 19, Daniel Stani-Reginald violently raped and strangled Ms Thakkar with a television antenna cable in her room at a Croydon boarding ...
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Carbon Storing Qualities of Coastal Wetlands Explored In Australia
In the Argentina's Patagonia region a massive network of peat bogs quietly stores thousands of gallons of fresh glacial water and helps regulate global climate change by containing more carbon per acre than most wooded forests, (File ...
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Sydney's scandalous toxic waste plan by government
A controversial waste relocation project in Sydney has created anger in a community with a lower income than the Sydney suburb from which the waste is being removed, with many suggesting a class-bias in the city government.
Hunter’s Hill is a predominantly wealthy suburb of Sydney with average house prices of around AUD $1.3 million and a harbour-side community made up predominantly of professionals, managers and other traditionally middle to high-income workers. Penrith, on the other hand, located just over 50 kilometres from Sydney’s CBD, is not as affluent, with average property values of around AUD $280,000. Read more
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