Darwin first edition, rescued from loo, sells for $450,000
Posted on 25 November, 2009
A first edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which was found in a British family's toilet has sold for more than 100,000 pounds ($180,166).
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Grizzles, polar bears breeding because of climate change
Posted on 24 November, 2009
An Australian biologist says climate change is speeding up the creation of new species through the merging of habitats.
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Brother wants answers on Scientologist's suicide
Posted on 23 November, 2009
A man whose Scientologist brother committed suicide has urged Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to allow a parliamentary inquiry into the controversial church.
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Road deaths cost world economy $540b
Posted on 20 November, 2009
Government ministers and traffic safety campaigners from around the world are meeting in Moscow in a bid to reduce the global annual road toll.
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States brace for high fire danger
Posted on 19 November, 2009
Firefighters in three states are bracing for a day of scorching temperatures, windy conditions and high fire danger.
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Australia leads world in carbon emissions
Posted on 18 November, 2009
The latest audit of global carbon emissions has found they are continuing to rise and Australia still holds the lead with the highest emissions per capita among developed nations.
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Actor Edward Woodward dies aged 79
Posted on 17 November, 2009
British actor Edward Woodward - best known for starring roles in the 1973 cult classic The Wicker Man and 1980 Australian film Breaker Morant - has died aged 79.
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National apology for Forgotten Australians
Posted on 16 November, 2009
About 900 people will gather in Canberra this morning to hear Prime Minister Kevin Rudd utter one word: sorry.
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Obama rejects Afghan war options
Posted on 13 November, 2009
US President Barack Obama has rejected all four Afghan war options placed before him by his war council.
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Berlin celebrates fall of the wall
Posted on 10 November, 2009
World leaders of the past and present have commemorated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall by walking across a key bridge linking the east and west of the city.
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Climate discontent feeds Coalition division
Posted on 9 November, 2009
The Federal Opposition has admitted it will lose most of its leverage to negotiate with the Government over the emissions trading scheme if it does not strike a deal within the next four weeks.
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Swan flags controversial tax reforms
Posted on 6 November, 2009
Treasurer Wayne Swan is sending a strong signal that the recommendations of Ken Henry's Tax Review may be more sweeping than many Australians have been expecting.
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Evans to race Tour Down Under
Posted on 5 November, 2009
World road race champion Cadel Evans has confirmed he will take on seven-times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong in January's Tour Down Under in Adelaide.
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Inquiry to probe oil leak disaster
Posted on 4 November, 2009
The Federal Government says an inquiry into a massive oil leak off the north-west coast of Australia will be announced in the next few days now that the leaking well has been sealed.
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Punters like Bart and Alcopop for Cup
Posted on 3 November, 2009
South Australian galloper Alcopop has been moved into joint favourtism alongside the Bart Cummings-trained Viewed for this afternoon's $5.6 million Melbourne Cup.
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Leaking oil rig continues to burn
Posted on 2 November, 2009
A fire at a leaking oil rig off the north-west coast of Australia will continue to burn until the leak is stopped, the owner of the rig says.
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Fatal attraction: woman murders third lover
Posted on 30 October, 2009
A Russian woman nicknamed "Bluebeard in a skirt" has been jailed for stabbing her younger lover, after having already served two jail terms for killing her first husband and another lover.
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House prices surges as rate hike looms
Posted on 29 October, 2009
Australian house prices grew at their fastest pace since 2003, rising 3.7 per cent in the three months to September.
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National approach needed to prevent coastal 'nightmare'
Posted on 27 October, 2009
Calls are mounting for a national approach after a report raised the possibility of banning homes that could be threatened by rising sea levels and coastal erosion.
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Plan to freeze threatened coral
Posted on 26 October, 2009
An international meeting on climate change in Copenhagen has heard the prospects of saving the world's coral reefs now appear so bleak there are plans to freeze samples to preserve them for the future.
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