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  • Family pay tribute to hero in terror attack

    THE family of Drummer Lee Rigby have paid tribute their ';hero'; in a tearful, agonised press conference, saying ';our hearts have been ripped apart from us';. Lee Rigby was hacked to death on a London street by two men in an apparent terrorist attack. His stepfather Ian Rigby said he spent frantic hours trying to contact Lee after hearing news of the attack. ';Your ...

  • Campaign to merge US with Australia fails

    THE campaign to force US President Barack Obama to look at merging the US and Australia to create a new super nation called Ameristralia, where inhabitants eat hotdogmeatpies and the coat of arms features a bald eagle with a koala's head, is dead. A petition on the White House's official website calling for the US and Australia merger failed on Friday to receive the 100,000 signatures ...

  • Arrests after plane diverted in UK

    Two men have been arrested on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft after an incident on a plane flying from Pakistan to Britain, rattling the UK just days after a British soldier was killed on a London street in a suspected terror attack. A fighter jet was launched to divert the Pakistan International Airlines plane carrying nearly 300 passengers to Britain’s Stansted Airport, ...

  • New clues about location of Ontario hiker missing in Australia

    Rescuers searching for a missing Brampton, Ont., man in the mountains of southeastern Australia have clues he may have taken a different route than originally thought. ...

  • DIY terror no one is safe

    He approaches a terrified witness and, according to Britain's ITV, tells him that ''it's cool, I just want to talk to you''. He speaks direct to the phone camera: ''The only reason we have killed this man today is because Muslims are dying daily by British soldiers … it's an eye for an eye … By Allah, we swear by almighty Allah, we will ...


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Trafic [DVD]

Trafic [DVD]

Given the manner in which his films are discussed, it would be easy to assume that Jacques Tati made only three films featuring his iconic character, Monsieur Hulot. First introduced in 1953 in M. Hulots Holiday, Hulot was to French comedy what Chaplins Little Tramp and Keatons various ston ... ...

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  • Chinese spies woo business leaders

    Some of Australia's most high flying business leaders were feted in China by an ''influence'' platform of the People's Liberation Army, a Fairfax investigation has revealed. Andrew Forrest, who touted his talks with Chinese business leaders last month as a lesson on how to do friendship with China, was joined by the heads of four of the five big banks, Qantas, the ...

  • The tax secrets of big business

    'The ruleswere developed for the industrial age' said Assistant Treasurer David Bradbury. Very few Australians will have heard of Burdekin Investments, one of the thousands of low-profile post-box companies that makes its home at Ugland House, a resort-style office building in George Town, the capital of Caribbean tax haven the Cayman Islands. It keeps a much lower profile than ...

  • Murder just hours before her wedding

    A US woman who stabbed her fiance to death with a large kitchen knife hours before their wedding last year folded her hands and rocked side to side as a Pennsylvania jury announced it had found her guilty of first-degree murder. The jury of five woman and seven men deliberated for just under three hours before reaching its decision during the third day of Na Cola Darcel Franklin's trial. ...

  • UK arrests 2 men over incident with Pakistan plane

    Lahore, Pakistan , was originally supposed to have landed in Manchester. Essex Police said that two men have been arrested and removed from the plane, which landed safely and was on an isolated runway at Stansted Airport. Britain's Ministry of Defense confirmed that a Typhoon jet was scrambled to investigate ...

  • Is Australia the Face of Climate Change to Come

    leaving 24 people dead. Each of these one-off traumas was bad enough, wreaking havoc, but in Australia such events seem to be becoming commonplace. The Lucky Country has experienced a major spike in extreme weather in the past few years, with a string of devastating incidents just since January. That has people wondering if the island continent is somehow a perfect bellwether for the ...

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