Egypt's Mubarak retrial hits a glitch

THE retrial of Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak after he appealed against a life sentence began in Cairo and was immediately adjourned as the judge recused himself amid chaotic scenes. Mostafa Hassan Abdallah recused himself after Saturday's...

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Japan quake leaves 23 people injured

Meteorologists say there is no risk of a tsunami after a 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit western Japan. Source: AAP A STRONG earthquake shook Japan near the southwestern city of Kobe, leaving 23 people injured, seven of them seriously - mostly...

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Plane crashes in Bali with 108 on board

A LION Air plane carrying 108 people has overshot the runway at Bali's Denpasar International Airport. The plane crashed into the water as it came in to land at the airport about 3.50pm local time (5.50pm AEST) on Saturday. Early reports said...

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Man threatened NSW police with chainsaw

A MAN who ran at police with a running chainsaw after they were called to a home in Sydney's east has been charged. About 9.30pm (AEST) on Tuesday police went to a Queens Park home responding to reports of a domestic incident. When officers...

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NSW ports privatised in $5 billion deal

NSW Treasurer Mike Baird has announced a deal to privatise the state's ports for the next 99 years. Source: AAP THE NSW government has accepted a bid to privatise two of Australia's biggest ports, in a deal that will earn $4 billion for infrastructure...

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Asylum-seeker boat may have sunk

ONE asylum seeker boat is feared to have sunk on its way to Australia while another has been detained by the Indonesian navy after running aground near Sulawesi. Indonesian search and rescue authorities are trying to locate where a boat carrying...

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Salvo abuse claims dealt with privately

THE Salvation Army did not go to police with almost 500 child sex abuse complaints against its officers, paying out $15 million as it dealt with claims privately, an inquiry has been told. The Salvation Army denies there was a culture of abuse...

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New clues flow from slain nurses inquest

The final two witnesses will give evidence at an inquest into the 1974 murders of two Sydney nurses. Source: AAP NEARLY 40 years after Sydney nurses Wendy Evans and Lorraine Wilson were murdered and dumped in bushland near Toowoomba, a new...

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Residents in China 'ordered to cull birds'

More than 2000 poultry birds have been culled in China in response to the new strain of bird flu. Source: AAP RESIDENTS of a Chinese city have been ordered to cull all their poultry as authorities step up attempts to halt the spread of the...

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'Dead' Qaeda leader delivers message

AL-QAEDA in the Arabian Peninsula has posted online an audio message from its second-in-command, Saeed al-Shehri, whose death was announced by Yemen in January, a monitoring group says. The 14-minute audio produced by AQAP's media arm Al-Malahem...

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Qld govt declares Gonski a 'conski'

DENOUNCING Canberra's Gonski education reform plans as a "conski", the Queensland government has issued a list of schools throughout the state it claims would be worse off under the initiative. Federal Minister for School Education Peter Garrett...

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NSW Library welcomes Ned Kelly poster

An original wanted poster for Ned Kelly will be featured in a gallery at the State Library of NSW. Source: AAP AN original wanted poster for Ned Kelly and a letter from Captain James Cook are among 60 relics and rare books that will go on...

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Coalition NBN policy is a lemon: critics

THE coalition's plan to deliver earlier and cheaper broadband to Australia has been dismissed as slow and inadequate by the government and IT experts. In announcing the coalition's first major policy of the election year, Opposition Leader Tony...

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Britain grapples with Thatcher legacy

Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, the controversial "Iron Lady", has died aged 87. Source: AAP BRITAIN is wrestling with violent passions ignited by the death of divisive former prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Critics of...

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Qld cold-case inquest told of 'gang bang'

A QUEENSLAND cold-case inquest has heard chilling evidence of a murder confession and tales of a "gang bang" in a paddock not far from where the bodies of two Sydney nurses were found. A mill worker confessed to his boss that he had helped kill...

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Women's screams haunt Qld witnesses

CHILLING witness accounts of two women being abducted and bloodcurdling screams in the night have emerged at a cold-case inquest in Queensland. Fresh evidence about how two Sydney nurses died almost four decades ago and who might have killed them...

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Ex hospital chair rejects WA minister slur

THE ex-chairman of the company that operates the troubled Peel Health Campus has rejected "a slur" by West Australian Health Minister Kim Hames that he interfered in the running of the hospital. Dr Hames revealed on Monday that stock exchange-listed...

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Australia, China agree to annual talks

PRIME Minister Julia Gillard has reassured China that Australia is open to foreign investment ahead of signing an historic "strategic partnership" deal with Premier Li Keqiang involving annual summit talks between the two countries' leaders. The...

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NSW teens badly hurt in league games

A TEENAGE NSW mid-north coast rugby league player is in critical condition with a severe head injury sustained in a weekend match, reports say. The 15-year-old Sawtell Junior Rugby League Football Club player was hurt during a game on Saturday...

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After gang-rape, India looks for action

A HUNDRED days after India mourned the death of a gang-rape victim and vowed to fight sex crimes, the torn clothes and tears of Bharti Kagra bear testimony to a tide of violence that refuses to ebb. Kagra is one of the 812 women whom police say...

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Pair saves woman trapped in underwater car

TWO neighbours have saved a woman whose car ploughed through backyard fences and into a pool in southwest Sydney. The East Hills men smashed the windows of the sinking station wagon to reach the 63-year-old local woman and pull her out about...

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