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Russian ship frees itself from ice in Antarctic
A Russian ship reached open water off Antarctica after struggling through a huge mass of sea ice for days, a Russian shipping company and a British travel agency said Friday. The icebreaker Captain Khlebnikov, with 101 passengers on board, got stuck in...
21-11-2009 - 04:49
Bribe probe: executives stood down
FEDERAL police have raided the homes of executives from a Reserve Bank of Australia company, Securency, as part of an international bribery investigation.
21-11-2009 - 00:27
Internet hook-ups hurt sex industry
IN A profession notoriously resilient to hard times, online dating sites threaten to do what the global financial crisis could not - send the sex services industry broke.
21-11-2009 - 00:22
Husband who killed wife in his sleep freed
A DEVOTED husband who strangled his wife while having a nightmare that she was an intruder walked free from court after the case against him was withdrawn.
21-11-2009 - 00:12
Struggle between a church and the state
Changing Scientology's tax-exempt status could involve a legal stoush, writes Malcolm Knox.
21-11-2009 - 00:07
Saving his own neck
For the first time in his premiership, Nathan Rees this week looked like a leader. But were voters listening? Andrew Clennell investigates.
21-11-2009 - 00:04
Channels spared from rules on local content
TV DIGITAL multichannels will not have to screen a minute of Australian programming, with the federal Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, declaring that local content rules will not apply.
21-11-2009 - 00:01
Pain at a loss, despair at inaction
Having lost a son to hospital shortcomings, Yvonne and Adrian Berkhout cannot understand why nothing has changed. Kate Benson reports.
21-11-2009 - 00:00
Heartbreak hospitals
Julie Robotham and Natasha Wallace are left asking the same question as doctors, nurses and patients: what's been done to fix the system?
21-11-2009 - 00:00
Residents stunned after another violent death
EPPING had a rude awakening yesterday when news emerged that a long-time resident, Nancy Brayshaw, 72, had been sexually assaulted and later died in her Cooke Way home.
21-11-2009 - 00:00
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