Warning to boil water after e-coli detected

E. coli (EHEC) bacteria. Source: AFP RESIDENTS in Marburg will be woken by a loud hailer truck on Sunday morning warning them that E coli has been found in their water supply. About 1400 properties in the Marburg water supply zone are affected...

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Gay marriage a step closer in France

FRANCE'S National Assembly overwhelmingly approved the first and most important article of a controversial law that will allow gay couples to marry and adopt children. Deputies voted 249-97 on Saturday in favour of article one of the draft legislation...

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23 killed in Taliban attack on outpost

Suicide bombers have attacked a military checkpost in Pakistan, killing 8 people, officials say. Source: AAP TALIBAN militants wearing suicide vests and firing automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades have attacked an army post in northwestern...

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Aussie DJs won't be charged over hoax call

BRITISH prosecutors said they would not bring charges over a hoax call by two Australian radio DJs to the hospital where Prince William's pregnant wife Catherine was being treated. The Crown Prosecution Service said on Friday there was no evidence...

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Huge storm front to hit southeast

A SEVERE storm is battering areas from Dalby to Toowoomba and as far down as the New South Wales border. The Bureau of Meteorology warns that, at 10:05 pm, a line of severe thunderstorms were detected on weather radar from Esk to near Beaudesert...

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Two killed in blast outside US embassy

TWO security guards were killed and several others were wounded on Friday in an explosion outside the US embassy in Ankara that damaged nearby buildings, a police officer says. Police cordoned off the street in the Cankaya neighbourhood where many...

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Cyclist dies in collision with ute

A 24-YEAR-OLD Finnish man has died after his bicycle collided with a ute on Sydney's northern beaches. Police say the crash occurred on Nioka Road at Narrabeen about 11am on Thursday. The cyclist died at the scene, police said, while the driver...

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Google makes Grand Canyon virtual trek

GOOGLE Maps are opening a virtual path to the Grand Canyon's wonders by adding panoramic images gathered by hikers with Android-powered camera systems strapped to their backs. "These beautiful, interactive images cover more than 75 miles (120...

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Thomson strip searched, lawyer says

CRAIG Thomson was stripped naked and searched by court officers on the NSW Central Coast in an attempt to intimidate him, the embattled federal MP's lawyer says. Chris McArdle, who is representing Mr Thomson in his fight against 149 fraud offences,...

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Cocaine: Russia arrests Colombian priest

RUSSIAN agents have detained a Colombian priest on arrival at a Moscow airport and found he had swallowed over a dozen condoms stuffed with cocaine, the federal anti-narcotics service says. Anti-narcotics officers detained the man at Moscow's...

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Hundreds loot shops in Timbuktu

HUNDREDS of Malians have looted shops in Timbuktu, saying they belong to "Arabs" and "terrorists" linked to the radical Islamists who occupied the desert town for 10 months. Members of an angry crowd told AFP on Tuesday the shops belonged to Arabs,...

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Donors pledge hundreds of millions to Mali

AFRICAN leaders and international officials have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars for military operations against Islamist militants in Mali and humanitarian aid. Malian President Dioncounda Traore thanked the "entire international community"...

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Dozens found shot execution-style in Syria

THE bodies of at least 68 young men and boys, all executed with a single gunshot to the head or neck, have been found in a river in the Syrian city of Aleppo, a watchdog and rebels say. A Free Syrian Army captain at the scene on Tuesday said at...

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Timbuktu mayor says Islamists burned texts

French-led troops are closing in on Timbuktu without meeting any resistance from Islamist militants. Source: AAP ISLAMIST extremists have torched a library containing historic manuscripts in Timbuktu as French and Malian forces close in on...

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Thailand to turn away Myanmar boat people

THAILAND will turn away any more Rohingya boat people from neighbouring Myanmar (Burma) who try to land on its shores, a top official says. "The Thai navy from now on will be stricter with them and will no longer allow them to land," National...

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NSW cop has surgery after pot knockout

A MAN has allegedly hurled a heavy cooking pot at a constable, knocking her out, at a unit on the NSW Central Coast. Officers went to Nambucca Drive in Woy Woy to arrest an 18-year-old man and a 13-year-old boy over an alleged assault shortly...

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Nightclub fire kills at least 90

A FIRE in a nightclub in southern Brazil killed at least 90 people early Sunday, police and firefighters said. Sandro Meinerz, spokesman for the police in the city of Santa Maria, told local media that the fire broke out at the Kiss club while...

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Qld cities brace for floods - again

A sixth tornado has hit Queensland's Bundaberg region and forecasters say more could develop. Source: AAP RESIDENTS of Brisbane and Ipswich are again preparing for floods, two years after the 2011 deluge that inundated thousands of homes and...

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150 dead in Brazil nightclub fire

LOCAL media report 150 people have died in a fire that erupted at a nightclub in the southern Brazilian city of Santa Maria. The death toll from the early Sunday morning disaster stood initially at 70 but quickly increased as firefighters searched...

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