| Officials board Oceanic Viking
November 17, 2009 at 11:14 pm
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| | INDONESIAN officials have boarded Australia's Oceanic Viking ahead of the expected transfer of the remaining Sri Lankan asylum-seekers. |
| Web surfers can help NASA explore Mars
November 17, 2009 at 10:49 pm
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| | NASA and Microsoft have launched an interactive website that allows web surfers to become Mars explorers. |
| Wheelchair champ masters Kokoda Track
November 17, 2009 at 7:46 pm
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| | PARALYMPIAN Kurt Fearnley's "superhuman" effort to crawl Papua New Guinea's Kokoda Track is complete, ending with an emotional and weary celebration at Owers Corner, the southern end of the track. |
| Anti-depressant may be women's Viagra
November 17, 2009 at 7:33 pm
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| | A DRUG that failed to fight the blues could be the female answer to the little blue pill Viagra, the lead North American investigator analysing tests of the drug said. |
| Citizen journalist channel on YouTube
November 17, 2009 at 7:09 pm
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| | CELEBRITIES beware: YouTube is making it even easier for anyone with a camera phone to turn your behavior - be it mundane or sensational - into news. |
| Cyber arms race virtually a reality
November 17, 2009 at 6:44 pm
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| | WARNING of a "cyber arms race," top web security firm McAfee said that China, France, Israel, Russia and the United States had developed "cyber weapons". |
| Man 'dreaming' while he killed wife
November 17, 2009 at 5:59 pm
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| | BRITISH man killed his wife in his sleep, after dreaming that she was an intruder in their camper van, a court has heard. |
| Cops stop would-be killer at school gates
November 17, 2009 at 5:50 pm
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| | A 13-YEAR-OLD French boy set out to mow down his teachers with a shotgun but abandoned the plan when he arrived at the school and found it surrounded by police, officials said. |
| Palin drops first White House bid hint
November 17, 2009 at 4:45 pm
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| | SARAH Palin has dropped a heavy hint that she might seek to run for the White House in 2012 as champion of America's Republican right. |
| Somali pirates free Spanish trawler
November 17, 2009 at 3:59 pm
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| | SOMALI pirates have released a Spanish tuna trawler and its 36 crew seized more than a month ago in the Indian Ocean, saying they had been paid a $US4 million ($4.27 million) ransom. |
| Stabbing postpones jailbirds' Idol debut
November 17, 2009 at 3:54 pm
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| | INMATES at one of South Africa's most violent prisons delayed their chance to be pop idols by stabbing each other. |
| US 'objects' to settlement expansion
November 17, 2009 at 2:46 pm
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| | THE US opposes Israel's decision to expand a Jewish settlement in annexed Arab east Jerusalem and urges both sides to refrain from unilateral moves, the State Department said today. |
| UK murder suspect freed 'in error'
November 17, 2009 at 2:39 pm
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| | UK prison guards released a murder suspect who is a danger to the public "in error", police said today. |
| Fossil-fuel emissions up 2pc in 2008
November 17, 2009 at 2:27 pm
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| | CARBON emissions from fossil fuels rose two per cent last year to an all-time high, leaving Earth on a worst-scenario track for global warming, scientists reported today. |
| McCartney to take home Gershwin Prize
November 17, 2009 at 1:39 pm
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| | EX-BEATLE and music icon Paul McCartney will receive the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, a US Library of Congress honour that has been bestowed on stars like Paul Simon and Stevie Wonder. |
| Cat Stevens booed on comeback
November 17, 2009 at 1:28 pm
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| | FANS of the musician formerly known as Cat Stevens rallied round overnight after he was booed by a small number of people at the first gig of a long-awaited comeback tour. |
| Venezuela, Colombia spar over arrests
November 17, 2009 at 1:06 pm
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| | TENSIONS mounted between rival South American nations Venezuela and Colombia on Tuesday as Caracas accused Bogota of detaining four of its soldiers in international waters. |
| Thousands march in student revolt demo
November 17, 2009 at 12:48 pm
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| | GREEK police today faced a readiness test as thousands marched in Athens to honour a 1973 anti-junta student revolt, ahead of protests set to mark a teenager's fatal shooting by police last year. |
| Dying woman 'had hand chopped off'
November 17, 2009 at 12:35 pm
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| | A MURDER investigation was launched overnight after a dying woman was reportedly found on a street northwest of London with one of her hands chopped off. |
| Large quake strikes off Canada coast
November 17, 2009 at 12:31 pm
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| | A 6.6-MAGNITUDE earthquake struck overnight off Canada's Pacific coast in the remote Queen Charlotte Islands region, experts from the US Geological Survey said. |
| Actor Danny Glover to wed
November 17, 2009 at 11:40 am
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| | LETHAL Weapon co-star Danny Glover is to marry his longtime Brazilian girlfriend in a December, he told a Rio de Janeiro film festival this week, according to the O Globo newspaper. |
| Hong Kong shares close lower
November 17, 2009 at 10:34 am
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| | HONG Kong shares closed down 0.13 per cent on Tuesday on profit-taking, after hitting a more than 15-month intraday high, dealers said. |
| Woman arrested over soldier murders
November 17, 2009 at 9:30 am
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| | A WOMAN once jailed for bombing London's Old Bailey court has been arrested over the murder of two soldiers in Northern Ireland earlier this year, police said. |
| Town offers all residents free wi-fi
November 17, 2009 at 7:40 am
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| | A BRITISH town is to offer free wireless internet access to all its 186,000 residents, in what is thought to be the first such scheme in the country. |
| Rolf Harris chases top spot on charts
November 17, 2009 at 6:10 am
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| | ROLF Harris has joined forces with Rick Parfitt, singer and guitarist with British rock group Status Quo, in an attempt to record this year's UK Christmas No.1 single. |
| Bryan Brown leads charity auction
November 17, 2009 at 5:43 am
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| | ACTOR Bryan Brown will lead a charity auction for young Australian performers in London. |
| Mammoth Yves Saint Laurent sale kicks off
November 17, 2009 at 5:30 am
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| | FROM pots and pans to spectacular crystal chandeliers, 1200 bits and pieces from the plush homes of late fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Berge went under the hammer today. |
| Hunt for millions on after 'perfect crime'
November 17, 2009 at 4:22 am
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| | FRENCH police today were hunting for millions of euros still missing after an armoured car driver who vanished with the cash nearly two weeks ago finally gave himself in. |
| Cyber wars the new arms race - report
November 17, 2009 at 3:36 am
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| | THE cyber-battlefield is heating up, with the US, China and France leading a new era of IT warfare, a security provider reports. |
| 50 feared dead in ferry crash
November 17, 2009 at 3:05 am
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| | AT least 50 people are believed to have drowned in Myanmar when a wooden ferry packed with 178 people collided with a tugboat on a river in the southern Irrawaddy delta region of Burma, officials said today. |
| More Michelin stars in Tokyo than Paris
November 17, 2009 at 1:34 am
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| | TOKYO has overtaken Paris as the city with the world's most Michelin three-star restaurants, the publisher of the renowned culinary guide announced. |
| 17m US families too poor to eat
November 17, 2009 at 12:41 am
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| | THE US Agriculture Department has released bleak figures on the state of hunger in the United States, showing that more American families are having difficulty feeding their members. |
| China backs US stance on Iran
November 17, 2009 at 12:20 am
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| | US President Barack Obama said China had agreed Iran must show its nuclear program is peaceful and transparent. | | | 
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