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  • UAE Australia hold talks

    The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Australia have held talks over a number of issues of mutual interest and explored ways to develop bilateral relations in all sectors. The talks were held Tuesday between General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE's deputy prime minister and Roger Wilkins, the visiting Australian director of public prosecution. Other important officials were also present on ...

  • 280 new moon craters identified

    Using ultra-high resolution mapping techniques, scientists from Australia have identified 280 craters on the moon that have never been mapped before. The researchers at Curtin University in Western Australia used computer modelling of lunar gravity and topography data to explore detailed basins that would be obscured using other methods, Xinhua reported. A total of 66 of the craters identified ...

  • Hughes Wade join Australia A squad

    Left-handed batsman Phil Hughes and wicket-keeper Matthew Wade will join the Australia A squad here Tuesday ahead of their final tour match against Gloucestershire beginning Friday. Skipper Michael Clarke, James Faulkner, Mitchell Starc, David Warner, Shane Watson and Chris Rogers will remain in London to prepare before the Ashes squad officially assembles June 24. Australia were knocked out ...

  • NRL investigates claims of racial attack on Oz rugby players wife

    The National Rugby League (NRL) of Australia has reportedly been investigating claims that spectators had racially abused the wife of a rugby player during a match last Friday. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, NRL football operations director Nathan McGuirk had confirmed that the body's integrity unit was aware of claims that the wife of Canterbury forward Frank Pritchard's wife Raima, ...

  • Holden could leave Australia in 2016 if workers don’t agree to pay reduction

    Holden’s workers were given an ultimatum on Tuesday: take a pay cut or the company would join Ford and stop making cars in Australia in 2016. Mike Devereux, chairman of General Motors Holden, told the company’s staff that its Port Melbourne (300 workers) and Elizabeth (1700) should consider a pay cut of $200 per ...


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Movie Review

Life

"Life" is a surprisingly sentimental comedy about two men wrongly sentenced to life at hard labor in a Mississippi state prison. It is nothing like what you would expect from a high profile vehicle starring Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence, and it is certainly not what the advertising has made it out to be. There are many humorous passages, and even a number of laugh-out-loud moments. However, the ... ...

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  • Bayley jailed for 35 years for Jill murder

    The man guilty of the rape and murder of Jill Meagher, Adrian Ernest Bayley, arrives at the Victorian Supreme Court, followed by Ms Meagher's ...

  • How to get a World Cup ticket

    Australia celebrates World Cup qualification A shower of green and gold tickertape greeted the Australia squad as a packed ANZ Stadium celebrated ...

  • Affluent womens secret shame

    The shadow of domestic violence readily falls across the wealthy and famous, as Nigella Lawson has discovered, but few choose to report it to the police because of shame. The focus was on lower socioeconomic households, Tracy Howe, chief executive at NSW Women's Refuge Movement, said, but the statistics failed to recognise the unreported problems across the affluent suburbs of Australia. ...

  • Our son was murdered theres no question

    Mother's heartbreak at son's death Thomas Kelly's mother, Kathy, levels thinly-veiled criticism at prosecutors after a murder charge against the man who fatally punched her son was ...

  • Coalition scraps green slip changes

    THE government has withdrawn its controversial changes to green slip policy, following a public outcry on the slashing of benefits and lack of support from key crossbench ...

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