14 killed after Egypt soccer verdict

FOURTEEN people have been killed in riots outside the main prison in Port Said following a controversial verdict related to one of the world's deadliest incidents of soccer violence. Two police were shot dead outside the prison when angry relatives...

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Cassar-Daley dominates Golden Guitars

Country music fans have marked Australia Day at the annual Tamworth Country Music Festival. Source: AAP THOUSANDS of country music fans have kicked off their Australia Day celebrations at the annual Tamworth Country Music Festival cavalcade....

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Troy Cassar-Daley humbled by awards haul

TROY Cassar-Daley has a big place in his heart for the Golden Guitars. When he inspected the flood-ravaged basement of his Queensland farmhouse the first item he salvaged was one of the statuettes. He also dragged out a banjo, given by his wife...

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Fire rips through Hobart's Queens Domain

A LARGE fire is spreading from hilly bushland just northeast of Hobart's CBD. The fire was moving uphill from the northeast side of the Queens Domain, fanned by strong winds, Tasmania Police said at 10.30pm (AEDT) on Thursday. Motorists are...

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Spainish newspaper sorry for Chavez bungle

A TOP Spanish newspaper has apologised after publishing a front-page photograph supposedly of ailing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in his hospital bed, and then discovering the patient was someone else. El Pais, Spain's best selling newspaper...

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Amgen 4Q profit falls on higher spending

DRUGMAKER Amgen Inc has posted a 16 per cent drop in fourth-quarter profit, as higher costs for production, marketing, research and other items offset higher sales for many of its biologic medicines. The results fell a bit short of Wall Street...

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Pope prays for victims of Jakarta floods

POPE Benedict XVI has offered his prayers to the victims of floods in Indonesia's capital Jakarta and said "no one should go without the necessary aid". The 85-year-old pope said during his weekly general audience on Wednesday: "I have been...

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Indian panel gets tough on women's safety

AN Indian government panel has recommended the strict enforcement of sexual assault laws, a commitment to speedy rape trials and an overhaul of the country's antiquated penal code. The three-member panel received more than 80,000 idea submissions...

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Alan Parker to get BAFTA's highest honour

ALAN Parker, the lauded British director whose work includes Midnight Express, Fame and Mississippi Burning, is to receive the British Academy Film Awards' highest honour. The academy announced on Wednesday that the 68-year-old will collect...

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Bolshoi chief undergoes plastic surgery

THE Bolshoi ballet's artistic director has undergone successful plastic surgery following an acid attack that left the former dancer barely able to see the fingers on his hand. Doctors said Sergei Filin was receiving family visits on Tuesday after...

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Catastrophic fire warning in southeast WA

A CATASTROPHIC fire danger warning has been issued for people living in the southeast of Western Australia. The Bureau of Meteorology has forecast the worst possible conditions for bush or grass fire on Wednesday for the Eucla, which includes...

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Man dies in crash west of Ipswich

A MAN has been killed in a crash west of Ipswich involving a car and a truck. The man, 33, was DRIVING on the Haigslea Malabar Road at Haigslea when his car and a truck collided about 1.20pm. Emergency crews tried to save the man with CPR but...

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Man caught filming up girls' skirts

A MAN has been charged with using his mobile phone to film up the skirts of teenage girls at a shopping centre in Sydney's inner west. Police say they were on foot patrol in a Burwood shopping complex on Monday afternoon when they witnessed...

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Patriot missiles arrive in Turkey

FOUR batteries of Patriot missiles have arrived in Turkey as part of a NATO mission to protect the Turkish border from any spillover of the conflict in neighbouring Syria, a NATO source has told AFP. A ship carrying two German Patriot missile...

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Fitch highlights economic threat of ageing

MANY advanced economies will be threatened by another, long-term fiscal shock unless they tackle the problem of ageing populations, the ratings agency Fitch has warned. "Whilst a successful resolution of the current fiscal crisis remains the...

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Five family members die in Syria air raid

Syrian Kurds have urged the opposition to halt a siege against them by Islamist rebels. Source: AAP FIVE members of one family have been killed in air raids on a town in Damascus province, with Syrian warplanes bombarding a battleground town...

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4 die in Egypt clashes

EGYPT'S Health Ministry says overnight clashes between police and residents of a densely populated district just north of Cairo have left four people dead and 12 wounded. Security officials say the clashes began when a bystander was hit by a...

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French yachtsman rescued in Southern Ocean

A cruise ship will reach a stranded French yachtsman on a life raft near Tasmania at 8pm on Sunday. Source: AAP AFTER three days adrift on a life raft in the remote Southern Ocean, round-the-world yachtsman Alain Delord has been rescued by...

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