Quake hits off Alaska, tsunami 'no threat'

OFFICIALS have cancelled a tsunami warning for parts of southern Alaska and coastal Canada. The Alaska Tsunami Warning Centre says a tsunami was generated by a strong earthquake, but the waves don't pose a threat to the areas. The centre says...

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TV channel facing charges for gang-rape interview

INDIAN police they had filed a case against a cable news channel for airing an interview with the boyfriend of a woman whose gang-rape and murder has spurred protests across the country. A criminal case was registered late on Friday against...

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Missing Sydney businesswoman found

A WOMAN who went missing from a Sydney hospital last weekend has been found. Police found 40-year-old Belinda Burcham, nee Sheehan, in Paddington just before 9pm on Saturday (AEDT). She was taken by ambulance to hospital, where she is being...

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Malala leaves UK hospital

A 15-year-old Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting girls' education has been released from a Birmingham hospital to live with her family, doctors said Friday. Photographs released by the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham...

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'World's fattest man' loses 292k

A MAN once dubbed the world's fattest says he is looking forward to a normal life after shedding 292 kilograms. UK Postman Paul Mason weighed in at 444 kilos before a gastric bypass in 2010 to reduce the size of his stomach. He now weighs 152...

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More Tas communities threatened

TWO huge bushfires were threatening more Tasmanian communities after homes were destroyed and police investigated a suspected death in the south of the state. Up to 65 buildings, including houses, a school and an RSL club, had been destroyed in...

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China 'copies' star architect's design

ALREADY famed for fake designer bags and pirated DVDs, imitation in China may have reached new heights with a set of towers that strongly resemble ones designed by renowned architect Zaha Hadid. A developer in the southwestern city of Chongqing...

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Pair charged after Sydney police assaulted

A MAN and a woman have been charged with assaulting police and resisting arrest after a confrontation with two officers in Sydney's west. Police said the officers went to a unit at Carramar about 1.40pm (AEDT) on Thursday to serve paperwork...

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Afghan warlord vows more bloodshed

AFGHAN warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has vowed to kill as many Western soldiers as possible before NATO combat forces withdraw from the country in 2014. Hekmatyar, a former prime minister who leads Afghanistan's second largest militant group Hezb-i-Islami,...

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Filipino child dies from NYE shooting

A 7-YEAR-OLD girl has died after being hit in the head by a stray bullet during New Year's Eve revelry in the Philippines, heightening calls to halt one of Asia's most violent celebrations of the event. Stephanie Nicole Ella was watching fireworks...

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Mandela rests at home

SOUTH Africa's presidency says former leader Nelson Mandela is progressing with his recuperation from illness and doctors are closely monitoring his condition. Presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj said on Wednesday "everything is moving OK" as...

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Pope prays for peace at New Year mass

POPE Benedict XVI prayed for the "gift of peace" this year, condemning the inequality between rich and poor and "unregulated financial capitalism" at a New Year's mass in St Peter's Basilica. The Pope spoke of "hotbeds of tension and confrontation...

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Attacks down but Iraq in 'low-level war'

VIOLENCE in Iraq dropped in 2012, data shows, but insurgents proved they were still capable of mounting waves of attacks and a watchdog warned the country was still in a "low-level war". The warnings, which come after the first full year since...

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Workers 'killed boss, ate body parts'

Tea plantation workers torched a vehicle and the home of their boss, killing both him and his wife, following a labour dispute in the northeastern Indian state of Assam. Picture: AFP Source: AFP POLICE in northeast India say they believe...

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Scandal for Labor over bear in there

WHEN Australia does political scandal, it never seems to reach the heights of other nations. Consider the colour television affair which dogged the government of Malcolm Fraser in 1982. For the Hawke Labor government, it was the Paddington Bear...

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Russia investigates Moscow plane crash

RUSSIAN medics have begun identifying the bodies of four crew killed when a passenger jet careened off the runway of a Moscow international airport and smashed into a highway. Rescue workers recovered the flight recorders from the four-year-old...

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French paper to publish comic on Mohammed

A FRENCH weekly known for publishing cartoons of Prophet Mohammed to the ire of conservative Muslims says it plans to release a comic book biography of Islam's founder that will be researched and educational. Satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo...

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Man missing after canoe tips on NSW river

A MAN is missing after his canoe tipped over on a river in southwestern NSW. The man, aged in his late 20s, was paddling on the Murrumbidgee River when the canoe overturned about 2.30pm (AEDT) on Sunday. He failed to resurface, police say....

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