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Recall issued after Ferraris catch fire
Italian carmaker Ferrari says it has recalled all versions of its model 458 Italia sports car produced before July 2010, after four of them caught fire....
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| 2010-09-01 18:43 |
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Peace talks overshadowed by West Bank killings
The deaths of four Israelis in the West Bank have overshadowed the start of the latest round of Middle East peace talks in Washington DC....
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| 2010-09-01 18:28 |
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ABC News Online |
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Police shut down hoon gathering
Victoria Police shut down an organised gathering of hoons in Campbellfield in Melbourne's north last night....
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| 2010-09-01 18:13 |
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ABC News Online |
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Prison escapee caught after 200km chase
A prison escapee has been arrested after leading police on a chase across western New South Wales over more than 200 kilometres....
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| 2010-09-01 18:13 |
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Asylum-seeker rhetoric blamed for slump in student visas
The National Tertiary Education Union is concerned about a big fall in the number of international students wanting to study in Australia....
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| 2010-09-01 18:13 |
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Taliban leader charged over CIA killings
United States prosecutors have charged the leader of the Pakistani Taliban over the attack that killed seven CIA employees at an American base in Afghanistan last December....
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| 2010-09-01 18:13 |
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Hicks's ex-lawyer wins justice award
The man who was David Hicks's lawyer, Stephen Kenny, has won a Justice Award....
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| 2010-09-01 17:58 |
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The Age (World) |
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Diana, deals and drink: Blair lifts lid on life as PM
Paola Totaro, London
Alcohol, admits Tony Blair with candour, often propped him up at the end of long, difficult days, while fornication unravelled the careers of several cabinet colleagues....
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| 2010-09-01 17:43 |
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Sydney Morning Herald (National) |
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Teacher ordered to pay $120,000 over student affair
Kim Arlington
NOBODY saw them so much as holding hands. But David Withyman, a teenaged student at a special needs school, and his teacher, Anna Blackburn, spent months in a sexual relationship....
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| 2010-09-01 17:43 |
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Australian investigators to help examine PNG plane crash |
| 2010-09-01 17:43 |
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Australian opposition's election costings out by 11 billion dollars |
| 2010-09-01 17:28 |
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Irrigators to buy, sell Mary Basin water
Irrigators in the Mary Basin will soon be able to buy and sell water as part of new State Government water allocation plans....
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| 2010-09-01 17:28 |
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Police shoot Discovery Channel gunman
US police say they have shot a gunman who held three hostages at the Discovery Channel headquarters in suburban Washington DC....
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| 2010-09-01 17:28 |
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Asylum seekers 'pushed through electric fence'
Asylum seekers were able to break out of Darwin's detention centre even though the electrified perimeter fence was turned on....
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| 2010-09-01 17:28 |
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Taxpayers foot Langbroek's $76k travel bill
An overseas study trip by the State Opposition leader has cost taxpayers more than $76,000....
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| 2010-09-01 17:28 |
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ABC News Online |
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Iraq nearing political unity: Biden
US vice-president Joe Biden says Iraq's political parties are close to forming a government, almost six months after the country held a general election....
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| 2010-09-01 17:28 |
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PNG crash survivor recovering in Townsville
The sole survivor of a plane crash in Papua New Guinea is recovering in a north Queensland hospital this morning....
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| 2010-09-01 16:43 |
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Lower grade league player banned for biting
North Sydney lower grader Mitchell Stevens has been suspended for ten matches after being found guilty of biting following a lengthy hearing at the NSW Rugby League judiciary on Wednesday night....
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| 2010-09-01 16:28 |
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ABC News Online |
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Obama meets Netanyahu, Abbas
US president Barack Obama said his Middle East peace initiative was making "progress" after wrapping up an hour-and-a-half of talks with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas....
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| 2010-09-01 16:28 |
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Hostage drama at Discovery Channel HQ
A man who police believe may have explosives strapped to his body has taken at least one hostage in the Discovery Channel headquarters building in suburban Washington, police said....
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| 2010-09-01 16:28 |
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Hurricane speeds towards US coast
US holidaymakers began to flee the path of Hurricane Earl, slightly weakened but still packing potentially devastating winds and rains as it sped toward the US east coast....
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| 2010-09-01 16:13 |
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Sydney Morning Herald (National) |
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Dysfunctional, corrupt and rotten, the end is finally nigh for Labor
Sean Nicholls STATE POLITICAL EDITOR
AN INQUIRY into the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, a corruption finding against a NSW Maritime lawyer and, to top it off, the resignation of a cabinet minister who admitted accessing adult and gambling websites on his parliamentary computer....
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| 2010-09-01 14:43 |
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Blasts kill at least 18 in Pakistan's Lahore, |
| 2010-09-01 14:43 |
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US charges Pakistani Taliban leader in CIA killings |
| 2010-09-01 14:43 |
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US places Pakistani Taliban on terrorism blacklis |
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US marks a new era in relations with Iraq |
| 2010-09-01 14:43 |
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Indonesian MPs named in central bank bribery case |
| 2010-09-01 14:13 |
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Two killed in Pacific Highway crashes
A man and a woman have died in two separate car accidents along the Pacific Highway on the New South Wales mid-north coast....
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| 2010-09-01 14:00 |
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Suicide blasts in Lahore kill 18
Three suicide bombers have struck in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore, killing 18 people and wounding 143 during a Shiite mourning procession, according to police....
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| 2010-09-01 14:00 |
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Police kill four, wound 27 in Mozambique protest
Police in Mozambique have killed four people and wounded 27 after firing on demonstrators protesting rising prices, police spokesman Pedro Cossa said....
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| 2010-09-01 14:00 |
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Dutch authorities release Yemeni suspects
Two Yemenis arrested in Amsterdam on suspicion of terrorism have been released due to lack of evidence, according to the Dutch prosecuting authority....
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| 2010-09-01 13:43 |
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US places Pakistani Taliban on terrorism blacklist
The United States has added the Pakistani Taliban to a blacklist of foreign terrorist organisations, triggering sanctions and an asset freeze....
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| 2010-09-01 13:43 |
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Netanyahu rules out extension on settlement moratorium
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton there will be no extension of an Israeli moratorium on settlement construction....
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| 2010-09-01 10:58 |
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Blair takes shot at 'strange guy' Gordon Brown
Britain's former prime minister Tony Blair has used his memoirs to criticise his successor Gordon Brown and give an insight into the "strain" the job put on his family....
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| 2010-09-01 10:43 |
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Sydney Morning Herald (National) |
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Property shakes off winter blues with $52m sale
Jonathan Chancellor PROPERTY EDITOR
SYDNEY'S prestige property market has woken from its hibernation with the reputed $52 million record sale of a Point Piper harbourfront property, Villa Veneto....
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| 2010-09-01 10:43 |
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Sydney Morning Herald (National) |
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Cafe owner verbally abused and underpaid staff
Paul Bibby
THE owner of a country cafe withheld more than $5000 in wages and leave entitlements from three staff and subjected them to verbal abuse and offensive language when they asked for their money, the Chief Industrial Magistrates Court has found....
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| 2010-09-01 10:28 |
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Sydney Morning Herald (National) |
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Porn, gambling sites claim MP
Sean Nicholls STATE POLITICAL EDITOR
A REPORT on internet use by MPs and staff of NSW Parliament has revealed the names of some who may have visited pornographic and gambling websites, including the Minister for Ports and Waterways, Paul McLeay, who has resigned from cabinet after admitting to repeated visits....
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| 2010-09-01 10:28 |
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ICAC to investigate Rocks property deals
Linton Besser
THE state government has ordered an internal inquiry into the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority and suspended a consultant who once worked as an authority executive after damaging revelations about the organisation's conduct....
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| 2010-09-01 10:28 |
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Sydney Morning Herald (National) |
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Dysfunctional, corrupt and rotten, the end is finally nigh for Labor
Sean Nicholls STATE POLITICAL EDITOR
AN INQUIRY into the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, a corruption finding against a NSW Maritime lawyer and, to top it off, the resignation of a cabinet minister who admitted accessing adult and gambling websites on his parliamentary computer....
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| 2010-09-01 10:28 |
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Warnings over 'poor controls'
Linton Besser
THE Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority was warned in a draft 2006 report that its dealings over some of Sydney's most exclusive waterfront properties may not have been negotiated impartially and had exposed the government to significant risks....
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| 2010-09-01 10:28 |
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ICAC finds senior lawyer engaged in corrupt conduct
Matthew Moore URBAN AFFAIRS EDITOR
THE Independent Commission Against Corruption has found that NSW Maritime's most senior lawyer engaged in corrupt conduct that included forging documents, cheating on her tax and lying repeatedly about a private conveyancing business she ran from her taxpayer-funded office....
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| 2010-09-01 10:28 |
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20 years left: mammals plunge into extinction
Ben Cubby ENVIRONMENT EDITOR
AT DUSK, the dry savannah of the Kimberley was once alive with the scuttling and foraging of the burrowing bettong, a marsupial whose ''countless numbers'' were marvelled at by early surveyors....
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| 2010-09-01 10:28 |
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Sydney Morning Herald (National) |
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Cedric's fight raises hope beyond death
Andrew Darby HOBART
THE death of a Tasmanian devil whose fight for life raised hopes of resisting the cancer that is scything through the species has underscored the struggle ahead to save it....
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| 2010-09-01 10:28 |
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Sydney Morning Herald (National) |
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Defence men gave information to bidders
Richard Baker
TENS of millions of dollars in Australian government aviation contracts have been awarded to companies that secured their bids with inside information about tenders provided by senior public servants....
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| 2010-09-01 10:28 |
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Sydney Morning Herald (National) |
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Fields of glory promised as farmers look to life after drought
Erik Jensen
THE drought is broken. In NSW, farmers are preparing to harvest their largest crop - a record $2.8 billion winter yield, based on government figures obtained exclusively by the Herald....
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| 2010-09-01 10:28 |
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Sydney Morning Herald (National) |
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Too many specimens, not enough people at museum
Nicky Phillips
MORE than a decade after thousands of specimens were stolen from the Australian Museum the NSW Auditor-General has criticised the current management of its collection....
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| 2010-09-01 10:28 |
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Sydney Morning Herald (National) |
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Teacher fined over student affair
Kim Arlington COURTS
NOBODY saw them so much as holding hands. But David Withyman, a teenaged student at a special needs school, and his teacher, Anna Blackburn, spent months in a sexual relationship....
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| 2010-09-01 10:28 |
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Sydney Morning Herald (National) |
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Property shakes off winter blues with $52m sale
Jonathan Chancellor PROPERTY EDITOR
SYDNEY'S prestige property market has woken from its hibernation with the reputed $52 million record sale of a Point Piper harbourfront property, Villa Veneto....
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| 2010-09-01 10:28 |
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Sydney Morning Herald (National) |
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Grazier's claim to be heard
Mark Metherell
PETER SPENCER, the grazier who went on a 52-day hunger strike at the top of a tower, has won his bid for the High Court to hear his challenge over a centrepiece of Australia's carbon reduction measures: bans on land clearing....
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| 2010-09-01 10:28 |
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Sydney Morning Herald (National) |
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Pact could lead to tougher emissions scheme, says Brown
Jacob Saulwick NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT
ANY emissions trading scheme or carbon tax emerging from Labor and the Greens' new climate change committee could be tougher on Australia's polluting industries than the government's previous scheme, according to Bob Brown....
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