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Japanese police have arrested New Zealand anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune on his arrival in Tokyo.
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A western Sydney council brothel inspector has been jailed for at least 15 months for corruption.
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Premier Anna Bligh says record flooding in parts of regional Queensland has stretched the state's resources.
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A court is told a driver who crashed into parked cars told a witness he was a police officer, then fled.
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The wife of Democratic Senate majority leader Harry Reid has suffered a broken back and broken neck, and his daughter a neck injury and facial cuts in a car accident in Washington.
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Former Australian Idol contestant Lisa Mitchell has won the Australian Music Prize for 2009.
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East Timor says it is embarrassing for Australia that NT police took five years to test remains believed to be those of the country's first prime minister.
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Two teenagers have been taken to hospital with third-degree burns after an explosion in a Sydney school science lab.
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An inquest into the death of a newsreader on anti-depressants has heard there is an 'under-reporting' of the side effects of prescription drugs in Australia.
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An Adelaide woman weeps in court, denying she murdered her husband by setting his genitals alight.
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A former Scientologist who says she was a "child slave" and alleges she saw a six-year-old boy chained up in a ship's hold is disappointed the Senate has blocked a full inquiry into the religious organisation.
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An international team of scientists who have arrived back in Hobart from Antarctica say they have evidence the icy continent once had a tropical climate.
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Police are hoping the public can help them find a man who has absconded from a mental health facility at Randwick in Sydney's east.
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A Reserve Bank report estimates the major banks have enjoyed a 20 to 25 basis point increase in interest margins during the financial crisis.
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The Police Minister, Rob Johnson, has dismissed criticism by a senior federal Liberal MP of the state's proposed stop and search powers.
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NSW Premier Kristina Keneally says her meeting with Kevin Rudd over his planned hospitals takeover has allayed her concerns.
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Worse than a bull in a china shop, a man whose bird died goes back to a pet shop with an axe.
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Mathew Stokes will be back in court next month after his lawyers were unsuccessful having the cae dealt with today.
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A New Zealand man is recovering from injuries after being run over by his wife - twice.
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Four British lawmakers have told a judge they will use a 320-year-old law as a defence against prosecution over allegations they dishonestly claimed parliamentary expenses.
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The 23rd asylum-seekers' boat to arrive in Australian waters this year has been intercepted by the Australian Navy.
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An inquiry has heard allegations that sailors from HMAS Success were involved in a public sex act which was witnessed by several of their colleagues.
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Taronga Zoo's new infant Asian elephant has had a restful night in the elephant barn and zoo keepers continue to be amazed by its progress.
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A Sydney court has decided not to release a man accused of attacking children in prams with chilli powder.
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The V8 Supercars bosses have upped the stakes by introducing a grand slam incentive.