Assistance for storm-hit NSW communities

STORM-HIT northern NSW communities will be able to apply for disaster assistance to help them get back on their feet. Attorney-General Nicola Roxon and NSW Police Minister Michael Gallacher made the announcement on Wednesday, saying it would...

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Australian school wins global green award

A SUBURBAN Melbourne secondary school has overcome competition from Canada, the US and United Arab Emirates to win an International Green Award. Bentleigh Secondary College was named Most Sustainable Educational Institution during a ceremony...

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Blast on Tel Aviv bus as Gaza truce remain

A BLAST has ripped through a bus in Tel Aviv, injuring 17 people in what Israel says was a terrorist attack, further vexing international efforts to end relentless violence in and around Gaza. The attack came as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...

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Church vote needs explanation: leader

THE Church of England has much explaining to do following its failure to vote to allow women to serve as bishops, its leader says - and politicians from the prime minister downward are already demanding action or answers. One MP even suggested...

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US stocks creep higher in opening trade

US stocks have opened slightly higher as Wall Street awaited a batch of economic data and weighed another eurozone failure to agree on a crucial aid payment for Greece. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 8.34 points (0.07 per cent) at 12,796.85...

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Argentine experts find huge penguin fossil

ARGENTINE experts have discovered fossils of a two-metre tall penguin that lived in Antarctica 34 million years ago. Paleontologists with the Natural Sciences Museum of La Plata province, where the capital Buenos Aires is located, said the remains...

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NATO receives Turkey request for Patriots

NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen says the alliance has received a request from NATO member Turkey for a deployment of Patriot missiles to protect its troubled border with Syria. "I have received a letter from the Turkish government requesting...

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Scandal-hit US commander returns to Kabul

US General John Allen, under investigation for potentially inappropriate emails with a woman linked to a CIA sex scandal, has returned to Kabul to take up his duties as commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, his spokesman says. "He returned...

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