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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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".... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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.... |
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| 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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| 2010-03-11 20:43 | ABC News Online | Appeal for man missing from mental health unit Police are hoping the public can help them find a man who has absconded from a mental health facility at Randwick in Sydney's east.... |
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| 2010-03-11 20:28 | ABC News Online | Business bears brunt of interest margin increase A Reserve Bank report estimates the major banks have enjoyed a 20 to 25 basis point increase in interest margins during the financial crisis.... |
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| 2010-03-11 20:13 | ABC News Online | Rudd woos Keneally on hospitals, tax New South Wales Premier Kristina Keneally says her meeting with the Prime Minister over his planned federal hospitals funding takeover this morning has allayed her concerns about the impact of the yet-to-be released Henry tax review.... |
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| 2010-03-11 19:58 | ABC News Online | Pet death prompts axe-wielding outburst Worse than a bull in a china shop, a man whose bird died goes back to a pet shop with an axe.... |
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| 2010-03-11 19:58 | ABC News Online | Case against Geelong star 'weak and tenuous' A court has been told drug charges against Geelong footballer Mathew Stokes are weak and tenuous and should be dropped.... |
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| 2010-03-11 19:43 | ABC News Online | Woman runs over husband twice A New Zealand man is recovering from injuries after being run over by his wife - twice.... |
