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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 v Iraq what we learned from the World Cup qualifier

    For 48 hours before the game, a major Sydney road was rechristened as the Tim Cahill Expressway. This was a man who had scored his country's first ever World Cup goal and at times had dragged the team through qualification. For years, he has been the source of goals when all others had run dry. Yet with 13 minutes remaining ...

  • The moment we won the game

    Instead, he can reflect with pride after his brave substitution of national hero Tim Cahill with the game in the balance swung it - and World Cup qualification - for the ...


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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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  • Abominable PM under attack

    Labor senators Kim Carr and Doug Cameron have openly attacked Julia Gillard in parliament, as leadership tensions continue to plague the government. The two senators, who have been pushing for some time to install Kevin Rudd as prime minister, told the senate on Tuesday night they were disgusted at the way Ms Gillard had treated their departing colleague Trish Crossin. Senator Cameron chose ...

  • Australia shares seen bouncing on strong Wall St weaker A$

    SYDNEY, June 19 (Reuters) - Australian shares are expected to rebound on Wednesday, after Wall Street rose for a second straight day as investors bet the Federal Reserve will maintain its stimulus support for the world's biggest economy. A weaker Australian dollar may also benefit stocks with overseas exposure. * Local share price index futures rose 0.7 percent to 4,855.0, a 40.6-point ...

  • Socceroos heading for Brazil will you be going too

    Socceroos are heading to Brazil for the World Cup next year. The question is - will you be? An estimated 3.3 million tickets are expected to go on sale for the world's biggest single sporting event and, now that the Socceroos have sealed their spot among the participating nations, Australian fans will be allocated a specific number of those seats. FIFA has not yet released detailed ...

  • ADFs new internet sex scandal

    The Australian Defence Force is investigating whether serving military personnel are linked to offensive Facebook pages that included grossly sexist and anti-Muslim posts - another blow to the military on the heels of the sex email affair. Facebook pages emerged in recent days that appear connected to serving and former soldiers based in Townsville and refer to local women as ...

  • Mundine in Fergusons corner

    "I told him if you want to be the best you have got to give it (alcohol) up": Anthony Mundine on advice he gave to second cousin Blake Ferguson, ...

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