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Brutal end for Riggers
Police arrest two more over London attack British police arrested two more people on Thursday in a hunt for accomplices to brutal attack on ...
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Gambling bosses in live odds U-turn
The online betting industry has caved in to public pressure and will push for a ban on the promotion of live odds in sports broadcasts. Gambling industry bosses will hold a crisis meeting with TV representatives on Friday to present an 11th-hour proposal to stop betting spruikers interrupting football coverage. To succeed, the proposal needs the support of the TV networks and wagering giant ...
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London attack two more arrested
Two more people were arrested overnight by counter-terrorism detectives as police investigate the brutal killing of a soldier in London. A 29-year-old man was arrested, and a 29-year-old woman was arrested in south London, both on suspicion of conspiracy to murder. The two men who were shot by police at the scene of the crime on Wednesday were still under arrest in a stable condition in ...
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Soldiers attackers were on file
released the name of the victim of the attack – Drummer Lee Rigby of 2nd Battalion The Royal Rgiment of Fusiliers. Known as ‘Riggers’ to his friends, the 25 year-old was father to a two-year old son. He had seen action in Helmand province in Afghanistan, before moving to regimental headquarters in the Tower of London where he worked in recruitment. Also overnight, one of the ...
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Bookies in live odds U-turn
The online betting industry has caved in to public pressure and will push for a ban on the promotion of live odds in sports broadcasts. Gambling industry bosses will hold a crisis meeting with TV representatives on Friday to present an 11th-hour proposal to stop betting spruikers interrupting football coverage. To succeed, the proposal needs the support of the TV networks and wagering giant ...
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Hazel Hawke dies after battle with dementia
Prime Minister's statement Hazel Hawke has died peacefully after succumbing to complications of dementia, her family announced on Thursday. She died surrounded by family, who had been with her in her last ...
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Youre all gutless euthanasia bill defeated
NSW parliament has voted against a bill giving people with a terminal illness the right to end their own suffering by choosing the manner and timing of their death. "They will be screaming out in frustration," said Greens MP Cate Faehrmann, who introduced the bill to the NSW upper house last week. As if on cue, a man in a wheelchair yelled out from the public gallery: "You ...
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Slaughter of Horses in Australia Described as Inhumane
Canberra, May 23 (Prensa Latina) Animal rights groups described as inhumane and cruel the governmental procedure to slaughter thousands of wild horses in the outback, 300 kilometers southeast of Alice Springs city. The Australian organization of animal defenders said that the killing of 100,000 individuals by shooting them from a helicopter will make those wounded suffer a lingering death, ...
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Australia-India ink MoU for skills training in agri sector
NEW DELHI: India and Australia today signed an agreement for skill development in the agriculture sector. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between ...
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Family takes comfort from final act
When Lisa McKay drove her brother to the Carnival Spirit cruise liner last month, it would be the last time she would see him. Ten days later, Paul Rossington had tumbled into the Tasman Sea from the deck of the ship, moments after his partner, Kristen Schroder, went overboard. Family and friends of Mr Rossington told a memorial service on Thursday of their heartbreak at losing the ...
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$15m sale for Abeles home
Sydney recorded its third-highest auction sale price on Wednesday night when the former home of Sir Peter Abeles sold for $15,501,000. Secrecy surrounded the private auction and agents refused to divulge who attended. But among the last to leave was the chancellor of Bond University, Dr Helen Nugent, who is also president of the Cranbrook School next door, fuelling speculation it was bought on ...
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Micro yarns win $93ooo prize
An author who pens stories the length of a sentence won this year's Man Booker International Prize. American writer Lydia Davis has written some short stories of conventional length but most range from one to three pages, while others are just a paragraph or a sentence long. Davis was picked from a short list of 10 names to win the fifth Man Booker International Prize, which is presented ...
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Tigers set to hit new low at Leichhardt
The worst losing streak in Wests Tigers' history is expected to be compounded by the lowest Leichhardt Oval crowd in nine years on Friday night. With the NRL looking towards moving games from dilapidated suburban grounds to the larger stadiums, Friday's game between the Tigers and Cowboys could be the third-last game at the ground. The lowest crowd at Leichhardt Oval as a joint ...
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Our name dragged through the mud
The father of Ben Te'o claims the family name has been unnecessarily ''dragged through the mud'', but is confident the South Sydney star will emerge from investigations with his reputation intact. Brisbane woman Katie Lewis claims Te'o repeatedly struck her and left her with a fractured eye socket during an incident at the home of Brisbane fullback Corey Norman ...
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Australians believe economy is fair
Australians overwhelmingly see their country as prosperous and fair, yet most think the next generation will be worse off, according to a new international comparison. The opinion poll conducted across 39 countries for the Washington-based Pew Research Centre found that only in three countries did a majority say their economic system was ''fair to most people''. And among ...
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Packer card game far from clear
Forget playing the tables or the slots. The biggest game in town is working out why James Packer's Crown is selling its 10 per cent stake in Echo Entertainment only a week after finally receiving regulatory approval to increase it to 23 per cent. The first conspiracy theory is that Packer's had the wink and nod from the NSW government that his Barangaroo casino proposal is in the bag. ...
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Ford the weak linkwas always going to fold
Ford was always going to fold. Management expert Professor Roy Green served on the Prime Minister's manufacturing taskforce and her manufacturing leaders advisory group. He says it was the ''weak link'' in the Australian manufacturing chain - the only firm with plainly dismal prospects. Green believes in targeted government support to help Australian industry, but he ...
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Alleged killers names were on file
newspaper has reported. Anjem Choudary, former leader of the group Al Muhajiroun, told the newspaper he had known the man who was seen on video after the killing, waving a cleaver with bloodied hands. He said the man went by the names of Mujahid or ...
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Alleged killers were on file
reported. Police have also raided an address on a Greenwich housing estate - near Woolwich - the BBC reported. Prime minister David Cameron said Britain will "be absolutely resolute in its stand against violent extremism and terror." "The people who did this were trying to divide us - they should know something like this will only bring us together and make us stronger," ...
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Lone wolf terrorism hits London
The attack was unprecedented. A British soldier run down and beheaded in a London street in the middle of the afternoon. Britain has spent millions of pounds since the 2005 London Underground attacks to prepare against the threat of terrorism, yet here, in broad daylight, two men brandishing a meat cleaver and a butcher's knife, have shown how cheaply that veneer of security can be ...
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$30b wiped off share market
. Futures on the UK’s FTSE 100 Index slid 1.8 per cent, Germany's Dax futures are down about 2 per cent. ‘‘European markets look set to be taken to the woodshed,’’ Chris Weston, chief market strategist at IG Markets in Melbourne wrote in a note. ...
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Kudo Higashinamed to squad for Australia match
Kashiwa Reysol’s in-form striker Masato Kudo and FC Tokyo midfielder Keigo Higashi received their first callups as Japan coach Alberto Zaccheroni named a 26-strong squad on Thursday for the upcoming World Cup qualifier against Australia. Kudo has scored 13 goals in the J.League and the Asian Champions League this season, including Kashiwa’s third in a 3-2 win over Jeonbuk Hyundai ...
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Search continues for Canadian hiker missing in Australia for more than one week
Kosciuszko National Park is seen in this undated handout photo. The Canberra Times reports that an air search for Prabhdeep Srawn is focusing on a specific location within the Kosciuszko National Park, about 350 kilometres southwest of Sydney. Srawn, a 25-year-old Brampton, Ont., man hasn't been heard from since parking his rental car May 13 in the village of Charlotte Pass. (Westpac Life ...
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Four Carriers to Launch China-Taiwan-Australia Service in June
will launch a joint China-Australia-Taiwan service on June 7.The CAT service will employ six 4,250-TEU container vessels, including two each from Evergreen and Yang Ming and one each from PIL and Sinotrans.The port rotation is as follows: Ningbo, Shanghai and Shekou in China; Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane in Australia; and back to Kaohsiung and Ningbo. The roundtrip voyage is ...
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Ford Motors to Leave Australia After 90 Years
Ford Motor Company announced Thursday that it would stop making cars in Australia within two years because high costs and low volumes mean it cannot compete with imported vehicles. Ford Australia chief Bob Graziano said that closing its plant in Melbourne and the other 60 kilometres further south-west in Geelong would see 1,200 workers laid off by October 2016. "Our costs are double ...
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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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