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Australia Genocide Iran Nuclear Photos | Noble action likely to fail
| THE Rudd Government's effort to bring a legal action against Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for incitement to genocide is almost certain to fail. | Nonetheless, it is a noble endeavour worthy of... (photo: UN/Paulo Filgueiras) The Australian
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 Lleyton Hewitt to miss out of French Open
| LLEYTON HEWITT is facing his first winter at home in nine years. | The 27-year-old is very frustrated that a hip injury he received during the US hardcourt season could force him out of the French O... (photo: Creative commons) The Australian
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 UN delays on Timor extension request
| THE UN will wait until February to consider whether it will continue its peacekeeping mission in East Timor, despite President Jose Ramos Horta asking it to commit until at least 2012. | Mr Ramos Ho... (photo: AP Photo / Jordao Henrique) The Australian
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 Aussies linked to rebel arms deal
| TWO Australian arms dealers offered to sell rifles, grenade launchers and missiles to a Marxist guerilla group seeking to topple the Government of Colombia, according t... (photo: AP / Fernando Llano) The Australian
Australia Colombia FARC Photos Weapons |
 One-third of pregnant women drink alcohol
| UP to a third of Australian women continue to drink alcohol during pregnancy, despite growing awareness that it puts the unborn child at risk. | And contrary to expecta... (photo: WN / patricia) The Australian
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 Hospitals failing six out of nine benchmarks
| VICTORIAN hospitals met only three of nine key performance indicators in the six months to last December but Health Minister Daniel Andrews remains upbeat about the sta... (photo: AP Photo / Gurinder Osan) The Australian
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 Bring in the Chinese
| WITH the Australian economy at or near full capacity utilisation, infrastructure constraints have emerged as a supposedly binding constraint on future growth. We have a... (photo: AP/Ng Han Guan) The Australian
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 St. George Bank approves Westpac offer
| : Westpac Banking and its smaller rival St. George Bank said Tuesday that they had agreed to a takeover, a deal that would create one of largest Australian banks. | But... (photo: AP / Mark Baker) International Herald Tribune
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 Island's seal of approval
| Lying stretched out on the smooth volcanic boulders that surround Montague Island, nine kilometres from Narooma on the NSW South Coast, Australian and New Zealand fur s... (photo: GFDL) Sydney Morning Herald
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 U.S. Sunflowers Could "Get a Lift" from Down Under
web | May 13, 2008 | Improved disease resistance could be in store for tomorrow's sunflower hybrids, thanks to plants that Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists ... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick) ARS
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