Cyprus shellshocked over eurozone bailout

RESIDENTS of Cyprus have reacted with shock after the government agreed to a 10 billion euros ($A12.62 billion) bailout that includes an unprecedented levy on all bank deposits. The debt rescue package, agreed with the eurozone and International...

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Booze ban lifted for school fundraisers

Every school in Queensland will be able to serve alcohol at fetes and other fundraising events without a liquor permit under state plan to reduce paperwork 'headaches'. Source: adelaidenow EVERY school will be able to serve alcohol at fetes...

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Hospital mistakes have a high price

TAXPAYERS have been forced to fork out hundreds of thousands of dollars after blunders at Queensland public hospitals led to more than 500 lawsuits being lodged against Queensland Health between July 1, 2010, and December 31, 2012. Source: Herald...

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$20m fraud paid for his escort's high life

Lavish gifts: Belinda Leonard was paid generously for her services by Damian O'Carrigan, whose secret life we reported on earlier. Source: The Courier-Mail Lavish gifts: Belinda Leonard was paid generously for her services by Damian O'Carrigan,...

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Anglican leader to skip pope inauguration

THE new leader of the world's Anglicans, Justin Welby, will miss the inauguration of Pope Francis next week as he will be on a "pilgrimage of prayer", his residence has announced. Welby, who became Archbishop of Canterbury last month, will be...

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Tense Zimbabwe votes on new constitution

ZIMBABWEANS have voted on a new constitution that would pave the way for crucial elections in a country plagued by political violence. Voters are expected to roundly back the text, which would introduce presidential term limits, beef up parliament's...

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Swiss tourist gang-raped in India: police

A SWISS female tourist was gang-raped in central India in front of her husband, police say, renewing the focus on the issue of sexual violence against women in the South Asian nation. The woman was on a cycling trip with her husband in impoverished...

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Berlusconi's lawyers seek to move trials

SILVIO Berlusconi's lawyers have filed motions to change the jurisdiction of two trials nearing verdicts in Milan. Berlusconi's lawyers claim the Milan courts are biased against the former premier and sought on Friday to move the trials to Brescia,...

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Bruni takes revenge on 'penguin' president

FORMER first lady Carla Bruni has reportedly taken a swipe at French President Francois Hollande, depicting him as a bumbling buffoon with no manners in a song that features on her new album. The lyrics of The Penguin were released on Friday...

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Turkish Airlines to buy up to 117 Airbuses

TURKEY'S national carrier Turkish Airlines says it will buy up to 117 planes from the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus, with deliveries scheduled between 2015 and 2020. "The airline's board of directors announced 117 air planes will be...

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Another 800 dead pigs in Shanghai river

SHANGHAI has fished another 809 dead pigs out of its main waterway, bringing the total carcasses found this week to 8300 in a scandal highlighting China's troubles with food safety. The swine effluent discovered flowing down the Huangpu river...

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Man drops appeal against UK race murder

ONE of the two men jailed for the racist murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence has dropped his appeal against conviction, UK authorities have confirmed. Gary Dobson was given a life sentence at the Old Bailey in January last year. The second...

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N. Korea test-fires short range missiles

NORTH Korea's military has fired short-range missiles into the East Sea (Sea of Japan), Yonhap reports, at a time of heightened tensions following Pyongyang's recent nuclear test. A single unit of the North's military test-fired the missiles,...

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One dead, several injured in unit blast

An explosion has destroyed a unit on George St, Beenleigh. Picture: Marc Robertson Source: The Courier-Mail A MAN, 52, has died, several people were injured and residents evacuated after a unit explosion in Beenleigh, south of Brisbane. ...

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Body of disabled boy found in WA

THE body of a 15-year-old intellectually disabled teenager has been found in rough terrain in Western Australia's Kimberley region. The Aboriginal boy was reported missing on Wednesday morning in the vicinity of La Djadarr Bay, north of Broome,...

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RBA plays down surge in jobs growth.

A RESERVE Bank of Australia official says the large surge in employment growth in February will not, by itself, have an impact on the interest rate outlook. Total employment surged by 71,500 in February - the largest monthly increase since July...

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Honda recalls vehicles for braking issue

Honda is recalling vehicles for brakes that can suddenly kick in when the driver isn't braking. Source: AAP HONDA is recalling nearly 250,000 vehicles, including 1000 in Australia, for brakes that can suddenly kick in when the driver isn't...

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Wild cyclonic weather to hit Lord Howe

A tropical cyclone is expected to cause extreme winds and surf on Lord Howe Island. Source: AAP A TROPICAL cyclone is expected to pass close by Lord Howe Island on Friday morning, lashing the island with damaging winds and surf, the weather...

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Man's body found near Broken Hill

THE body of an elderly man has been found near Broken Hill in outback NSW. Police said two elderly men, aged 81 and 78, went missing on Wednesday near Broken Hill after leaving the isolated mining town in a four-wheel drive. Police told AAP...

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UK, France prepared to arm Syrian rebels

FRANCE and Britain are ready to arm rebels in Syria, even without full support from the European Union, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius says. UK government sources said on Thursday that no decision had been taken to seek the lifting of...

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Govt lets down defence victims: taskforce

THE head of a taskforce investigating alleged abuses in the defence force says he's disillusioned with the federal government's failure to act on claims - and thinks victims may be too. DLA Piper taskforce leader Gary Rumble told a Senate Foreign...

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Office affair drove wedge in business

An artist's sketch of Gerard Baden-Clay during day one of the committal hearing in Brisbane. Source: The Courier-Mail GERARD Baden-Clay's disgruntled business partners told him to choose between his wife and his mistress after the affair began...

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It was a nice feed, but just a little saltie

LUNCH TIME: Eric the 2m saltie has a go at swallowing a juvenile croc carcass. Source: Cairns Post IT'S a croc-eat-croc world out there - especially on the Daintree River. Passengers on board a recent wildlife cruise were treated to something...

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Cyclone Tim to form off Cairns today

QUEENSLAND'S third cyclone of the season is tipped to form late this morning 450km northeast of Cairns and become a Category 1 or 2. Meanwhile, its predecessor Cyclone Sandra has turned spiteful, increasing in power and bearing down on Lord Howe...

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US retail sales surge 1.1pct in February

US retail sales have picked up sharply in February despite a payroll tax hike, driven largely by a surge in petrol prices, government data shows. Retail and food services sales rose 1.1 per cent from January, the Commerce Department reported,...

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US stocks slip despite strong retail sales

US stocks have slipped in early trade despite a strong report on retail sales in February. Fifteen minutes into trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 24.91 points (0.17 per cent) to 14,425.15. The broad-based S&P 500 slipped...

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Alcohol problems up due to policies: FARE

ALCOHOL-RELATED violence and hospitalisations have risen significantly because successive NSW governments have failed to implement evidence-based policies, researchers claim. The Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE) has on Thursday...

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Church sex diploma shocks Swedish parents

A "SHAGGING diploma" given to youths at a Swedish Lutheran Church confirmation camp has proved too much for parents who have complained that their 14-year-olds are too young for sex. After attending a course entitled Love and Sexuality, the teenagers...

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Cardinals to begin historic conclave

CARDINALS are preparing for the start of an historic conclave to elect a new pope after Benedict XVI's shock resignation, with the odds favouring a Western conservative to lead the Catholic world. At a grandiose mass in St Peter's Basilica the...

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US stocks open with dip after bull run

US stocks have opened lower as investors take a pause after a series of gains took the Dow to a record close for five days in a row. Five minutes into trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 6.60 points (0.05 per cent) at 14,440.69....

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Tunisian man immolates amid govt crisis

A CIGARETTE vendor has suffered severe burns after immolating himself in an act of desperation on a Tunis street hours before MPs were to vote on a new government to pull Tunisia out of political crisis. Officials named the man as 27-year-old...

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Crisis not over, Bundesbank warns

THE eurozone debt crisis is not yet over, even if calm appears to have returned to the financial markets, the Bundesbank warned on Tuesday as it set aside billions of euros in new risk provisions. "Even if reform policies are kept to, the necessary...

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Chevron reaffirms 2017 target on oil, gas

CHEVRON Corp has reaffirmed it will meet its target for a large increase in oil and natural gas output in 2017. The US oil giant, outlining its medium-term investment strategy to analysts, said it would hit 3.3 million barrels a day of oil-equivalent...

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N.Korea nuke strike only if threatened: US

NORTH Korea would likely only use nuclear weapons if it perceived a threat to its survival, but the United States remains uncertain how Pyongyang would define such a threat, the US intelligence chief says. "Although we assess with low confidence...

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Litvinenko suspect 'pulls out' of inquest

THE chief suspect in the polonium poisoning of Russian dissident and ex-security agent Alexander Litvinenko says he will take no further part in the British inquest into the death, blaming London's decision to keep some sensitive material secret....

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Sharks, manta rays win trade protection

SEVERAL shark species and the manta ray have won international trade protection in a move hailed by conservationists as a breakthrough in efforts to save them from being wiped out by overfishing. The deal at a major wildlife conference in Bangkok...

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Frenchman to proclaim new pope to world

THE honour of announcing the next leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics will fall to French cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, who will proclaim the outcome of the conclave from St Peter's Basilica. The Bach-loving former Vatican diplomat will...

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Greece appoints new privatisation chief

GREECE has appointed its third privatisation chief in less than a year as it struggles to speed up delayed state asset sales to meet bailout goals. The head of Greece's main water provider EYDAP, Stelios Stavridis, was brought in to spearhead...

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S Africa dragging victim 'in fatal crash'

A MOZAMBICAN taxi driver who was dragged behind a police van and died in custody was in a car accident that killed five schoolchildren just days before his death, a South African court has heard. Mido Macia, 27, faced charges of culpable homicide...

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Icahn in Dell confidentiality agreement

CORPORATE raider Carl Icahn says his investment firm has entered into a confidentiality agreement with Dell, which is facing a battle over its plans to take the computer maker private. The agreement will allow Icahn access to detailed financial...

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EU bans comestics tested on animals

AFTER years of trying, the EU has finally put into effect a complete ban on the sale of cosmetics developed through animal testing. The EU has progressively clamped down on animal testing since the 1990s and banned most such products in 2009,...

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Muscat sworn in as Malta's new PM

MALTESE Labour leader Joseph Muscat has been sworn in as prime minister after his party swept to power for the first time in 15 years in the eurozone's smallest member state. The 39-year-old Muscat, an ex-journalist and former member of the...

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Voters give Napthine a tick as Vic premier

HE'S been in the job less than a week but the latest poll shows Denis Napthine is the preferred premier of Victoria. The Fairfax Media/Nielsen poll, taken on Friday and Saturday in the wake of Ted Baillieu's shock decision to quit as premier,...

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Melbourne motorcyclist clocked at 174km/h

A MOTORCYCLIST has had his machine impounded after he was clocked travelling at 174km/h in an 80km/h zone on the Princes Highway in Melbourne's southeast. Casey Highway Patrol clocked the speeding Honda motorcycle at midday on Sunday at Pakenham.The...

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No he couldn't: Obama brother loses poll

HIS half-brother may be the most powerful man in the world but that stardust seemed not to rub off on Malik Obama as he failed miserably to win a county governor's seat in Kenya's recently concluded elections. Obama, 54, who shares a father...

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Malta's opposition Labour wins election

MALTA'S opposition Labour party has won a general election for the first time in more than 15 years, with party leader Joseph Muscat claiming a "landslide victory" in the eurozone's smallest member. Early results based on a sample of ballots...

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Mandela leaves hospital after tests

PEACE icon Nelson Mandela is back home after spending a night in hospital for a "scheduled medical check-up", the South African president's office says. "Former President Nelson Mandela has this afternoon ... returned to his Johannesburg home...

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Karzai-Hagel event off due to security

AFGHAN President Hamid Karzai has cancelled a high-profile news conference in Kabul with new US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, with US officials saying the event was dropped over "security concerns". A palace official, who declined to be named,...

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Bishop fails to sell Rolex to pay bill

A TOP Bulgarian cleric has failed to sell his gold Rolex to pay the electricity bill of his cash-strapped church, with no takers for the watch in the EU's poorest country. Metropolitan Nikolay of the southern city of Plovdiv decided to sell...

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