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  • Monkey teeth give clues on when Neanderthal baby was weaned

    Researchers from the US and Australia have claimed that they can now use fossil teeth to calculate when a Neanderthal baby was weaned. The new technique is based in part on knowledge gained from studies of teeth from human infants and from monkeys at the California National Primate Research Center at the University of California, Davis. Using the new technique, the researchers concluded that ...

  • Ex-AFL chief warns CA of need of robust approach to anti-corruption

    Former Australian Football League (AFL) chief executive Adrian Anderson has said that Cricket Australia (CA) and state cricket associations needed a robust national approach to anti-corruption. Stating that one global betting exchange turns over a billion dollars a year on Australian cricket, Anderson, who is conducting a review of CA's integrity and disciplinary systems, estimated that 60 per ...

  • Penriths Robinsons long road to the top

    In-form Penrith winger Travis Robinson has revealed it was his mother's insistence that drove him towards pursuing an NRL career after he walked away from the game for three years following a horrific injury. Robinson scored his fifth try in as many games on Saturday as the Panthers beat St George Illawarra 19-0 to complete a third successive win and catapult themselves into the top ...

  • JX Nippon KUFPEC and Santos begin oil output in Australia

    (MENAFN - Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) JX Nippon Oil and Gas Exploration Corp., a unit of Japan's top refiner, said Friday it started commercial oil production from the Finucane South field, off Western Australia, on May 16. The project is jointly owned by a local unit of state-owned Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company (KUFPEC) and Australian upstream group Santos. Production began ...

  • Woman wakes from coma after falling nine metres from unit balcony

    Kingsford 2032 A woman has woken from a coma after falling from a fourth-floor balcony in Sydney's south-east last night.Just after 11:30pm, the 35-year-old woman fell nine metres into the courtyard of another unit. She is in hospital in a serious but stable condition, with a punctured lung, fractured pelvis and broken leg. Detectives hope to speak to her later this afternoon to find out ...


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Ratatouille

Ratatouille

As have all their previous films, Pixar's Ratatouille, which tells the unlikely story of a country rat who yearns to be a Parisian chef, stands out among the other computer-animated movies of late. Ever since the release of 1995's Toy Story, the first feature-length comp ... ...

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  • Police investigate suspicious death of Blacktown woman

    Blacktown 2148 A police strike force has been set up to investigate the suspicious death of a woman at a home in Sydney's west.Officers were called to an address on Hayes Road, Blacktown, in the early hours of Saturday morning after paramedics found the body of a 54-year-old woman in the hallway.Forensic experts have examined the scene and a post-mortem will be carried out to determine ...

  • Search continues for hiker missing two weeks

    Police have not given up hope of finding a bushwalker alive who's been missing for two weeks.Canadian national Prabhdeep Srawn set out on May 13 and hasn't been heard from since.The 25-year-old's rental car was found that same day, abandoned at Charlotte Pass ski village, on the slopes of Mount Kosciuszko.The search, which resumed on Sunday morning, involves police alpine ...

  • Call to end cruel smoking ban

    Australia's leading anti-tobacco campaigner claims the NSW government has gone too far in forcing its outdoor smoking reforms onto vulnerable psychiatric patients held in public hospitals. Ashley Coleman took his life in March after being granted an unsupervised cigarette break off-site from Liverpool Hospital's mental health unit - where smoking has been banned. Now Coleman's ...

  • Charities left at the altar

    At the request of the happy couple, the guests were told bring envelopes containing donations rather than gifts. The Royal Children's Hospital, beyondblue, the Lighthouse Foundation - the list of charities set to benefit from the 2009 nuptials read like a roll call of Australia's top philanthropic bodies. But more than three years later, some of the charities say they are yet to ...

  • Truths too ugly for the public to see

    World-recognised photojournalists say some of their images, including a bushfire aftermath, have been censored from the major outdoor Vivid exhibition after a NSW government agency deemed them ''too distressing'' for the general public. Scenes from the Cronulla riots, the Granville train accident and award-winning pictures from the prestigious photographic agency Magnum were ...

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