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 2010-03-12 08:13     The Age (World)    Band of brothers launches Operation Purple Heart
BRIGID SCHULTE How did a war hero's medal certificate wind up in a box of donated bric-a-brac? Brigid Schulte reveals a mystery that enthralled America....

 2010-03-12 08:13     The Age (World)    Promise of work that led to kidney theft
MATT WADE The thick scar on Mohammad Salim's side is a permanent reminder of the kidney stolen from his body. But deeper wounds show in his eyes....

 2010-03-12 08:13     The Age (World)    Massacre accused bailed by socialite
LONDON A Bosnian-born philanthropist who left Britain after being treated like an "Eastern European mail-order bride" has provided £300,000 bail to free her country's former president from prison....

 2010-03-12 08:13     The Age (World)    Damages deal for Ground Zero heroes
DAVID CARUSO After years of legal wrangling, thousands of workers who helped clean up after September 11 - and were sickened by dust - may share in $US657 million settlement....

 2010-03-12 08:13     The Age (World)    New York chefs shaken over threat to ban salt
ED PILKINGTON A city politician wants $1100 fines for restaurants that use salt in recipes, writes Ed Pilkington....

 2010-03-12 08:13     The Age (World)    US whites will be in minority by 2050
WASHINGTON The US could reach a tipping point this year when for the first time the number of babies born to minorities would outnumber those born to whites....

 2010-03-12 08:13     The Age (World)    Women on pill live longer
LONDON Birth-control pills may lead to longer lives for women, according to a 40-year study that showed users were less likely to die of heart disease and cancer....

 2010-03-12 08:13     The Age (World)    Wellywood woes
Peter Jackson, Oscar-winning director of the Lord of the Rings , is at the centre of a dispute over plans to install a New Zealand version of the "Hollywood" sign....

 2010-03-12 07:13     ABC News Online    Israel seals off West Bank amid heightened tension
Israel has sealed off the West Bank amid tension in Jerusalem over controversial plans to build new homes for Jewish settlers and fears of fresh violence at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound....

 2010-03-12 06:43     ABC News Online    Broncos escape resurgent Cowboys
Denan Kemp's late try helped Brisbane avoid a shock come-from-behind defeat at North Queensland's hands, the home side winning 30-24 in forgettable fashion at Lang Park on Friday night....

 2010-03-12 06:43     ABC News Online    Clarke and Bingle break up
Glamour couple Michael Clarke and Lara Bingle have officially terminated their engagement, ending days of speculation about their anticipated break-up....

 2010-03-12 05:43     ABC News Online    Dragons outlast gutsy Eels
St George Illawarra got its 2010 NRL campaign off to a winning start, notching an 18-12 victory on the road over the Eels at Parramatta Stadium on Friday night....

 2010-03-12 05:28     ABC News Online    HIV-positive author attacks China ban
China's refusal to allow an HIV-positive Australian author to enter the country has led to calls for the Beijing Government to change the law....

 2010-03-12 05:28     Radio Australia    Bangkok locks down for protes
 2010-03-12 05:13     ABC News Online    Minister condemns newspaper's terror stunt
New Zealand Police Minister Judith Collins has slammed a stunt in which a newspaper sent people masquerading as terrorists with fake bombs to Super 14 rugby games as "unbelievably stupid"....

 2010-03-12 04:58     ABC News Online    Protesters clog Bangkok's main streets
Thousands of supporters of Thailand's ousted prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, have begun three days of protests in Bangkok, shutting down a major road outside Siam Square....

 2010-03-12 04:58     ABC News Online    UN changes may see detainees sent home
The United Nations refugee agency is looking at changing its international protection guidelines for Sri Lankan and Afghan asylum seekers....

 2010-03-12 04:28     ABC News Online    Pakistan blasts kill 20
A twin suicide attack targeting Pakistani army vehicles in the eastern city of Lahore has killed at least 20 people, police say....

 2010-03-12 04:13     ABC News Online    Saints and Lovett still at loggerheads
St Kilda says a mediation process with sacked midfielder Andrew Lovett could not reach a resolution....

 2010-03-12 03:13     ABC News Online    Australia won't back tuna trade ban
Despite a collapse of world tuna stocks, the Australian Government has decided not to support a global ban on the trade of the northern variety of the species....

 2010-03-12 02:43     ABC News Online    'Predatory culture' on HMAS Success
An inquiry has heard that a predatory culture existed on the Navy ship HMAS Success, with junior female sailors being bullied or coerced into having sex....

 2010-03-12 02:43     Radio Australia    Somare hails Indonesian visit to PNG
 2010-03-12 01:58     ABC News Online    Market finishes marginally higher
The Australian share market finished flat on Friday, after initially making gains on a positive lead from Wall Street overnight....

 2010-03-12 01:43     ABC News Online    Teen employee punched, bound and burned: Police
A man and a woman have appeared in the Darwin Magistrates Court charged with assaulting a teenage employee and holding her against her will....

 2010-03-12 01:28     ABC News Online    Women on pill may live longer
Australian experts are divided over fresh British research which says the oral contraceptive pill is good for women....

 2010-03-12 01:13     ABC News Online    Parents sue for $18m after babies taken
Figures released by the NSW Government show the number of babies taken from mothers by DoCS is on the rise....

 2010-03-12 00:58     ABC News Online    ASIO hunts for new recruits on Facebook
Australia's premier spy organisation is infiltrating social media and revamping its own website in a bid to attract more young people to join its ranks....

 2010-03-12 00:43     ABC News Online    Hurley offers 'sympathy' to Doomadgee family
The policeman acquitted of a 2004 death-in-custody on Palm Island in north Queensland has, for the first time, offered his sympathy to the victim's family....

 2010-03-12 00:28     ABC News Online    Demetriou lashes out at Bingle's legal team
AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou says Lara Bingle's legal team is refusing to cooperate with an investigation into Brendan Fevola....

 2010-03-12 00:28     Radio Australia    Bali blast accused is buried
 2010-03-11 23:58     Sydney Morning Herald (National)    Rudd pledges no batts blowout
PHILLIP COOREY, CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT THE multimillion-dollar cost of fixing the bungled home insulation program will be met by drawing unspent money from the scheme that could otherwise have been used to insulate more homes, the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, says....

 2010-03-11 23:43     ABC News Online    BA worker fronts court over bomb plot
A British Airways computer expert has appeared in a British court accused of planning suicide bombings and his own martyrdom....

 2010-03-11 23:43     ABC News Online    Income management harms health: Doctors
The Australian Indigenous Doctors' Association has called for a halt to compulsory welfare quarantining for Indigenous people in the Northern Territory....

 2010-03-11 23:28     Radio Australia    UN to quiz NZ on stun guns
 2010-03-11 23:13     ABC News Online    Ex-cop's case against Nine goes belly up
A former Sydney police officer has lost her legal battle to preview the latest series of Underbelly so she could she if she had been legally defamed....

 2010-03-11 23:13     Radio Australia    55,000 in poverty in French Polynesia, says study
 2010-03-11 22:58     ABC News Online    Japan arrests anti-whaling activist
Japanese police have arrested New Zealand anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune on his arrival in Tokyo....

 2010-03-11 22:43     ABC News Online    Floods have stretched Qld 's resources: Bligh
Premier Anna Bligh says record flooding in parts of regional Queensland has stretched the state's resources....

 2010-03-11 22:28     ABC News Online    Council brothel inspector jailed over bribes
A western Sydney council brothel inspector has been jailed for at least 15 months for corruption....

 2010-03-11 22:13     ABC News Online    Driving hoon pretended to be cop, court told
A court is told a driver who crashed into parked cars told a witness he was a police officer, then fled....

 2010-03-11 21:58     ABC News Online    Top US senator's wife, daughter hurt in car crash
The wife of Democratic Senate majority leader Harry Reid has suffered a broken back and broken neck, and his daughter a neck injury and facial cuts in a car accident in Washington....

 2010-03-11 21:43     ABC News Online    Ex-Idol wins $30k music prize
Former Australian idol contestant Lisa Mitchell has won the Australian Music Prize for 2009....

 2010-03-11 21:28     ABC News Online    East Timor bones affair 'embarrassing' for Australia
East Timor says it is embarrassing for Australia that NT police took five years to test remains believed to be those of the country's first prime minister....

 2010-03-11 21:13     ABC News Online    Students severely burnt in science lab explosion
Two students at a high school in Sydney's west have been taken to hospital with third degree burns after an accident in a science lab....

 2010-03-11 21:13     ABC News Online    Dragun inquest hears drug side effects under reported
An inquest into the death of a newsreader on anti-depressants has heard there is an 'under reporting' of the side effects of prescription drugs in Australia....

 2010-03-11 21:13     ABC News Online    Day-to-day random searches 'not planned'
The Police Minister, Rob Johnson, has dismissed criticism by a senior federal Liberal MP of the state's proposed stop and search powers....

 2010-03-11 21:13     Radio Australia    Fiji braces for new cyclone
 2010-03-11 20:58     ABC News Online    Murder accused wife weeps in court
An Adelaide woman weeps in court, denying she murdered her husband by setting his genitals alight....

 2010-03-11 20:58     ABC News Online    Scientology insider details 'nightmare' childhood
A former Scientologist who says she was a "child slave" and alleges she saw a six-year-old boy chained up in a ship's hold, is disappointed the Senate has blocked a full inquiry into the religious organisation....

 2010-03-11 20:43     ABC News Online    Antarctica once had tropical climate, scientists say
An international team of scientists who have arrived back in Hobart from Antarctica say they have evidence the icy continent once had a tropical climate....


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