Bushland body discovery not suspicious

THE death of a man whose body was found by a cyclist in bushland near Bendigo is not suspicious, police say. The cyclist discovered the 29-year-old local man's body at Strathfieldsaye, northwest of Melbourne, at about 4pm (AEDT) on Saturday.Police...

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Syria rebels seize key Aleppo district

SYRIA'S rebels have seized a key district in the embattled northern city of Aleppo, a resident and activists said, as troops again bombarded areas south of Damascus. "Rebel fighters seized total control of Sheikh Said in southern Aleppo, after...

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23 killed in Taliban attack on outpost

THE death toll from a Taliban attack on an army post in Pakistan's northwest has risen to 23, officials say. Twelve attackers were also killed. Two security officials said on Saturday that nine soldiers and four members of the Frontier Constabulary...

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NASA marks 10 years since loss of Columbia

NASA will honour the seven astronauts who perished when the space shuttle Columbia was destroyed 10 years ago. The space agency will mark the anniversary on Friday at a public memorial service at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Speakers include...

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Woman assaulted in Melbourne's inner east

A WOMAN has been sexually assaulted in Melbourne's inner suburbs, police say. The 24-year-old woman was walking along Grandview Grove in Prahran about 5.50pm (AEDT) on Thursday when a man grabbed her from behind and sexually assaulted her, police...

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Call for Iraqi Sunnis to take up arms

AN al-Qaeda-affiliated group in Iraq has called on Sunnis to take up arms against the Shi'ite-led government, as sectarian tensions and large Sunni protests increase. In an audio statement posted on Friday on the website of the Islamic State...

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NSW homes still without power after floods

ABOUT 500 homes remain without power in the north of NSW following the extreme weather that lashed the state earlier this week. In a statement, Essential Energy said its crews restored power to almost 3000 houses in northern NSW on Thursday,...

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Revised Indian growth data show slowdown

INDIA has revised its economic growth figures for the previous two years, issuing new data that show a recent slowdown has been even more abrupt than previously thought. The new figures show growth in the financial year to March 2011 was 9.3...

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Ericsson reports profit halved

ERICSSON, a leading provider of telecom equipment to global markets, reported on Thursday that net profit plunged by half last year, hit by a charge for its joint venture ST-Ericsson, but was confident about prospects this year as operators boost...

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Man drowns on NSW south coast

A 46-YEAR-OLD man has drowned after being swamped by large waves at a beach on NSW's south coast. Police said the man and a woman, 36, were trying to cross a beach channel at Lake Tabourie when they were hit by large waves and knocked off their...

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Julian Assange to run for Senate

JULIAN Assange will run for a Senate seat in the 2013 federal election and his mum reckons he'll be awesome. Christine Assange confirmed her son's candidacy on Wednesday after WikiLeaks tweeted the news. "He will be awesome," she told AAP....

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Russia pulls out of US drugs agreement

RUSSIA says it is pulling out of a decade-old drug control agreement with the United States in the latest sign of a deterioration in ties since President Vladimir Putin's return to the Kremlin last year. The Russian government website on Wednesday...

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Metronet plan is fantasy, says Barnett

Premier Colin Barnett says parts of the ambitious $3.8b Perth rail plan by WA Labor are "fantasy." Source: AAP THE ambitious $3.8 billion Perth rail plan that's a centrepiece of Western Australia Labor's election campaign has been dismissed...

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Twenty die in Kazakhstan plane crash

ALL 20 people on board a domestic flight of Kazakhstan's SCAT airline have been killed in a crash. The airline said there were "20 people were on board - five crew members and 15 passengers" when the plane crashed on Tuesday. It was coming...

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Machete attacker gets three-year jail term

A 23-YEAR-OLD man who struck a Mercedes-owner in the head with a machete in a bid to steal the vehicle has been sentenced to three years in prison. The District Court of Western Australia was told Lawrence John Cashin attempted to carjack the...

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15 rescued from sunken Russian ship

RUSSIAN emergency officials say five more sailors have been rescued from a fishing vessel that capsized in the Sea of Japan, but 15 are still missing. Ten members of the 30-man Russian-Indonesian crew had already been found in one lifeboat and...

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Cable repair puts Telstra back online

HUNDREDS of thousands of residents have been urged not to "panic" after a Telstra blackout left them with no phone, internet, or Triple Zero access everywhere north of Gladstone. Source: AFP TELSTRA has repaired services affected by a damaged...

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Five rescued from overturned boat

Five people have been rescued after their boat overturned off Rottnest Island. Source: AAP A MAN has been plucked from the sea and four others picked up by a rescue vessel after their craft overturned seven kilometres off the western tip...

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Indonesia landslides kill 11, 19 missing

TWO landslides triggered by heavy rains killed at least 11 people and left 19 others missing on Indonesia's Sumatra island, officials said on Sunday. The National Disaster Management Agency said seven people were killed and three people were...

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Brisbane and Ipswich brace for floods

PARTS of Brisbane and Ipswich will flood but the levels will not be as devastating as they were in 2011, authorities say. If current projections play out, 3600 residential properties will be affected in Brisbane and of those, 2100 are unit dwellings...

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French raids on Islamist bases in Mali

FRENCH fighter jets bombed Mali's far northern Islamist stronghold of Kidal and destroyed the home of the head of an al-Qaeda-linked group, a security source and local official said. "There were air raids on Islamist bases in Kidal," 1,500 kilometres...

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