Blast at Pakistan town 'kills 26'
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A suicide bomb attack on a market in a Shia Muslim area of north-west
Pakistan kills 26 people and injures at least 50 others, officials say.
Chaos in schools as new system rolls in
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CHILDREN and teachers are stressed, a computer system keeps crashing and
confusion reigns under the rollout of the Australian curriculum, teachers
warn.
The suburbs that buck the trend
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BATTLER suburbs, new housing estates on Melbourne's fringe and several
seaside towns are defying the market's downward trend.
Family's campaign to save our kids
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GEORGINA Cockburn was 15-months-old when she was killed by a trailer
reversing into the garage adjoining her family's newly built home.
Ohio parents sentenced for letting son die of cancer
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The parents of an 8-year-old boy who died from Hodgkin lymphoma after
suffering for months from undiagnosed swollen glands were sentenced to
eight years in...
Murdoch flies in to tackle newspaper crisis
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Rupert Murdoch meets staff at embattled Sun newspaper as questions swirl
over whether he will "sacrifice" UK workers to prevent the row spreading to
the U.S.
Kava ban
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MASS gathering and consumption of yaqona are expected to be banned in areas
and villages where flood-related diseases have been identified if the
Commissio...
Bringing 'normal' to sick, lonely kids
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Battling a life-threatening disease is tough at any age, but it can be
especially difficult for young children who have to be kept in isolation.
Cabinet OKs sales tax hike outline
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Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's Cabinet on Friday approved an outline of
integrated social security and tax reforms to pave the way for raising the
consump...
Xi goes on charm offensive in US heartland
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(CHICAGO) Chinese Vice- President Xi Jinping reunited with a family in Iowa
that hosted him 27 years ago as a provincial agricultural official, this
time b...
[News of the Week] Random Sample
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A 93-kilogram meteorite recovered from musician Sting's Lake House estate
in the United Kingdom's rural Wiltshire may shed some light on ice-age
Britain. L...
Bidisha's thought for the day: Ice skating
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The risk of amputation is part of the fun of ice-skating, surely?
I relish the possibility of amputation. It makes me feel I'm living on a
knife-edge – o...
Tiger Woods fan explains hot-dog toss
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PETALUMA (California) - A man arrested for throwing a hot dog at Tiger
Woods during a tournament says he wanted to do something "courageous and
epic."
T...
Hitler's end game
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On March 20, 1945, Thomas Mann delivered one of his last BBC broadcasts to
Germany and occupied Europe, ringing as usual with his contempt for the
Nazis an...
RBA slashes interest rates to 5.25pc
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THE Reserve Bank cut interest rates by 75 basis points today, reducing
borrowing costs to the lowest level in more than five years.