Two A380s to fly over Sydney Harbour

TWO Airbus A380s will fly in formation over Sydney Harbour on Sunday to mark the start of a partnership between airline carriers Qantas and Emirates. A Qantas A380 and Emirates A380 will start flying north of Longreef, turn around into Sydney...

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Teen to face court over fatal Easter crash

A girl will face court after a fatal crash north of Adelaide which killed a 17-year-old boy. Source: AAP A 17-YEAR-OLD South Australian girl will face court over causing death by dangerous driving after a fatal crash that killed another teenager....

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US hands over troubled area to Afghans

US special operations forces have handed over their base in eastern Afghanistan. Source: AAP US special operations forces handed over their base in a strategic region of eastern Afghanistan to local Afghan commandos on Saturday, a senior...

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Tibet copper mine landslide kills 83

Eighty-three workers have been buried after a large-scale landslide hit a mining area in Tibet. Source: AAP RESCUE teams have found the first body almost 36 hours after a giant landslide in Tibet buried 83 mine workers. Xinhua news agency...

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Cyprus will not leave euro, president vows

The Cypriot president tweeted his thanks to citizens for staying calm as national banks reopened. Source: AAP PRESIDENT Nicos Anastasiades vowed Friday Cyprus would stay in the eurozone despite the harsh terms of a EU-led bailout, as the island's...

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Four car bombs hit Iraq Shi'ite mosques

FOUR car bombs struck Shi'ite mosques during Friday prayers in Baghdad and the disputed northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, killing at 15 people and wounding more than 80, officials said. The blasts all struck within an hour of each other from around...

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Harry Potter actor Richard Griffiths dies

RICHARD Griffiths, the versatile British actor who played the boy wizard's unsympathetic Uncle Vernon in the Harry Potter movies, has died. He was 65. Agent Simon Beresford announced Friday that Griffiths died a day earlier of complications following...

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At least two dead in Tanzania construction

AT least two people were confirmed dead after a building under construction collapsed Friday in Tanzania's economic capital of Dar es Salaam, police said. Dozens were feared trapped in rubble of the toppled building in an affluent area of the...

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Queues form as Cyprus reopens banks

CYPRUS banks have reopened under armed guard after a nearly two-week lockdown but customers faced harsh curbs to stop them draining the island's coffers after its eurozone bailout. Queues of dozens of people formed on Thursday before the doors...

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China can end immolations: Tibetan envoy

An envoy of the Dalai Lama says China should end self-immolation protests that have killed Tibetans. Source: AAP AN envoy of the Dalai Lama says Tibetans would likely end a wave of self-immolation protests if China reopened dialogue with the...

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SAfrica court clears Pistorius for travel

Oscar Pistorius' older brother pleaded not guilty to the culpable homicide of a female motorcyclist. Source: AAP A SOUTH African court has cleared Oscar Pistorius for international travel after the Paralympian sprint star, charged with murdering...

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Berezovsky 'had ligature around neck'

Russian Boris Berezovsky was found with a 'ligature around his neck', an inquest has heard. Source: AAP RUSSIAN oligarch and Kremlin critic Boris Berezovsky was found lying on his bathroom floor with a piece of material around his neck and...

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Mystery over corpse hung from Paris cable

FRENCH police have been left baffled following the discovery of a charred corpse hanging from a railway cable above tracks in Paris. Detectives were at a loss to explain how the unidentifiable corpse could have got to where it was found overnight...

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Egypt court overturns Morsi decision

AN Egyptian court has overturned a decision by President Mohamed Morsi to sack prosecutor-general Abdel Meguid Mahmoud and ordered his reinstatement. The ruling by the appeals court will once again put the presidency on a collision course with...

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Seselja keeps ACT Senate ticket spot

Zed Seselja will remain the Liberal Party's lead ACT Senate candidate in the federal election. Source: AAP ZED Seselja will remain the Liberal Party's lead ACT Senate candidate in the federal election after a bid to overturn his preselection...

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Euro hits four-month low under $US1.28

THE European single currency has fallen under $US1.28 for the first time since November owing to concerns about fallout from the Cyprus financial bailout. The euro hit $US1.2789 about 1020 GMT (2120 AEDT) on Wednesday - the lowest point since...

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Coalition climate policy yet to be costed

Tony Abbott has hinted the coalition's climate change policy cost will be similar to a 2010 figure. Source: AAP THE federal opposition has yet to put a budget figure on the cost of its "direct action" plan to tackle climate change but has...

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Qld premier pushed to refer MP to watchdog

Premier Campbell Newman (pic) is under pressure to refer Scott Driscoll to the corruption watchdog. Source: AAP QUEENSLAND Premier Campbell Newman is under pressure to refer his suspended MP Scott Driscoll to the corruption watchdog. The...

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N Korea threatens to strike US mainland

North Korea has put its rocket units on combat ready status, with prepared orders to strike the US. Source: AAP NORTH Korea has put its artillery and "strategic" rocket units on combat ready status, with orders to prepare for strikes against...

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Fight for gay marriage goes to court in US

Both sides of the same-sex marriage debate will present their positions before the US Supreme Court. Source: AAP SAME-SEX marriage takes centre stage at the US Supreme Court on Tuesday as the justices begin hearing oral arguments on the emotionally-charged...

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Melbourne thieves get away with guns

MASKED men have stolen a number of firearms after breaking into a storage unit in Melbourne's southeast. Police say the thieves broken into the Huntingdale facility in the early hours of last Thursday using bolt cutters to cut the padlocks on several...

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Gillard to have 'L-plate' cabinet: Abbott

OPPOSITION Leader Tony Abbott says Prime Minister Julia Gillard will be working with an "L-plate cabinet" in the lead-up to the federal budget in 50 days' time. Ms Gillard will announce a ministry reshuffle in Canberra at noon (AEDT) on Monday,...

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Avoidable indigenous deaths fall: report

AVOIDABLE deaths among Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders have dropped since 2001, but mortality rates for chronic diseases are still much higher for indigenous Australians. Data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare on Monday...

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Thailand to talk peace with separatists

AFTER nine years of violence in Thailand's southernmost provinces and 5300 lives lost, the government will on Thursday initiate peace talks with the enemy. But exactly who that enemy is and whether it will be genuinely represented on the other...

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Musharraf returns to Pakistan from exile

Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf says he wants to "free" his homeland from terrorism. Source: AAP PAKISTAN'S former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has returned home after more than four years in exile, defying a Taliban death threat...

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Leighton shareholder denies interference

LEIGHTON Holdings' major shareholder has denied it had anything to do with the shake-up of the construction giant's board. Leighton chairman Stephen Johns and non-executive directors Wayne Osborn and Ian Macfarlane, a former Reserve Bank of Australia...

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Central Africa rebels 'seize' presidency

Rebel forces in the Central African Republic say they have entered the capital city of Bangui. Source: AAP REBELS in the Central African Republic fighting to topple President Francois Bozize say they have seized the presidential palace in the...

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Syrian rebels seize border area

Syrian rebel fighters say they have seized an air base in the southern province of Daraa. Source: AAP SYRIAN rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad's regime have seized a 25-kilometre strip of land from the Jordanian border to the Israeli-occupied...

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