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  • 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, ...

  • Australia risk scattering Ashes

    Even if some of the more scurrilous rumours abounding from within the Australian cricket team are discounted, it is impossible to escape the symbolism of their current disposition. Day one of the tourists' Ashes campaign ended the same way it began, with the 16 chosen squad members and their shadows dispersed across the United Kingdom. Whether by accident or design, this is more a ...

  • Disabled woman and child held as slaves

    Three people in Ohio are accused of enslaving a mentally disabled young mother and her daughter over two years. Federal agents and Ashland police said Tuesday that the trio forced the woman to do housework, threatened her and the girl with violence and fed their pets better than the mother and daughter. Ashland police say they discovered the situation when one suspect accused the mother of ...


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Friday the 13th Part III [DVD]

Friday the 13th Part III [DVD]

When it came time to create the third installment of the Friday the 13th franchise in as many years, the producers clearly realized that the stalk-and-slash formula was already starting to wear thin and was thus in need of a gimmick. The original movie had wor ... ...

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  • E-word riles public service

    NSW budget winners and losers Small businesses, the seat of Newcastle and home builders are the biggest winners in the NSW state budget while the public sector will find it tough, says senior reporter Matt ...

  • Why did you shoot officer

    As she tried to save a highway patrol officer who lay bleeding from a gunshot wound to the chest, Tamworth mother Cheryl Carpenter asked the man who allegedly pulled the trigger, 'why did you do it?' a court has heard. But the alleged killer did not answer and soon after the officer, Senior Constable David Rixon, was dead. Ms Carpenter was giving evidence in the trial of Michael ...

  • Frontline services will be hit

    Unions are warning that frontline services across the state are at risk after NSW Treasurer Mike Baird announced further cuts to the public service, despite already axing thousands of jobs and shrinking departmental budgets. Delivering his third budget on Tuesday, Mr Baird detailed a two-year extension of a 1 per cent ''efficiency dividend'' to help fund the state's ...

  • Its the Angelina effect

    There has been a huge surge in phone calls to the Cancer Council helpline, since Angelina Jolie's breast cancer preventive surgery. Cancer Council NSW has recorded an increase of almost 900 per cent in the number of people phoning the helpline, following Jolie's announcement of her preventative double mastectomy last month after learning she had the defective BRCA1 gene, which meant ...

  • Budget has a Liberal flavour

    If you were having doubts about the O'Farrell government's conservative credentials, take a look at its third budget. It lacked fireworks, but there was a Liberal flavour - tax cuts for small business, privatisation, an emphasis on "expense control" and pressure on public servants to work more efficiently. Squeezing savings out of the public sector has become a hallmark of ...

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