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US President: "Economy will be just fine"

abc.net.au
Oct 6, 2008 2 related
        

As Wall Street reeled and global markets plunged, the US President George W. Bush was reassuring the world that the American economy would be "just fine". Congress meanwhile was grilling the Lehman's CEO Richard Fuld about how...

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Nobel for aids and cervical cancer researchers

abc.net.au
Oct 6, 2008 284 related
        

Two French scientists who identified the virus behind AIDS have won this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine. They share the award with a German researcher who made the causal link between human papillomavirus and cervical cancer.

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Body parts unlikely to be missing backpacker

abc.net.au
Oct 6, 2008 68 related
        

Croatian police say body parts found in the ocean around Dubrovnik are unlikely to be from the missing Australian backpacker Britt Lapthorne. Ms Lapthorne's father says he's angry he only found out about the discovery from the...

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Markets crash worldwide

abc.net.au
Oct 6, 2008 495 related
        

There was a big slide on global sharemarekts overnight amid fears the $700 billion US bailout would not be enough to prevent a deep global recession. The Australian dollar also took a hammering. Wall Street market analyst Wayne...

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Australian mammals under threat

abc.net.au
Oct 6, 2008 209 related
        

A new international list of threatened species gives Australia the unenviable distinction of having more threatened mammals than any other developed nation. Among the mammals most at risk are Christmas Island shrews and...

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Beaconsfield becomes a musical

abc.net.au
Oct 6, 2008 25 related
        

The Melbourne Fringe Festival features a 50-minute play inspired by the 2006 Beaconsfield mine tragedy. Beaconsfield survivor Todd Russell, and the family of victim Larry Knight, have branded the play sick and hurtful.

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Rudd outlines infrastructure project rules

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Oct 6, 2008 13 related
        

With billions of dollars to spend on infrastructure the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will today outline the terms on which the money will be handed out. But will the process really be completely free of politics?

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Australian troops build bridges in Afghanistan

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Oct 6, 2008
        

Australian troops in the Afghan province of Uruzgan are helping to re-build schools and bridges while keeping a watch out for any remaining Taliban in the area. Our correspondent joins the reconstruction task force.

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Investigation over Henson school visit

abc.net.au
Oct 5, 2008 44 related
        

The Victorian Education Department is beginning an investigation into the visit to a school playground by the artist Bill Henson to seek child models. It's understood the principal of the school in question will be interviewed...

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Australian troops gaining ground in Afghanistan's south

abc.net.au
Oct 5, 2008 3 related
        

Our correspondent Mark Willacy is on patrol with Australian forces in Oruzgan Province in southern Afghanistan. The Taliban used to have the region firmly in its grip, but there are now only pockets of resistance.

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