India issues ultimatum to ICC
Posted on 8 January, 2008
India has given the International Cricket Council (ICC) 24 hours to deal with its protests over the recently completed second Test in Sydney, or risk having the tour of Australia abandoned.
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Summer Nats booze ban would be a 'disaster'
Posted on 7 January, 2008
The organiser of Canberra's Summernats car festival has ruled out alcohol bans at the event, saying it could be a disaster.
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Oil hits new record high
Posted on 4 January, 2008
The price of oil is on the rise again - hitting a new record high of $US100.09 a barrel.
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Petrol could hit $1.50 a litre: servo bosses
Posted on 3 January, 2008
The Service Station Association says higher world oil prices could soon see Australian motorists paying as much as $1.50 a litre for petrol.
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'Perfect surge' of cliches mars 2007
Posted on 2 January, 2008
A "surge" of overused words and phrases formed a "perfect storm" of "post-9/11" cliches in 2007, according to a US university's annual list of words and phrases that deserve to be banned.
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Millions welcome 2008
Posted on 1 January, 2008
Millions of revellers have welcomed in the New Year across Australia and Asia, with more than one million people gathering around Sydney Harbour for the biggest New Year's Eve fireworks display Australia has ever seen.
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Qld settles in the endure days of wild weather
Posted on 31 December, 2007
Severe weather lashing the central and southern Queensland coastline is not expected to let up for at least another few days.
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Bhutto's death prompts call for Musharraf to quit
Posted on 28 December, 2007
Former Pakistan prime minister and opposition leader Nawaz Sharif says President Pervez Musharraf must resign immediately to "save Pakistan", after the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.
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Rescuers digging out dozens buried in Java landslide
Posted on 27 December, 2007
Rescue teams in Indonesia are trying to reach dozens of people buried in landslides on the island of Java after floods and landslides left nearly 100 people dead or missing.
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Thousands swamp centres for Boxing Day sales
Posted on 26 December, 2007
Thousands of people are streaming through Sydney's shopping centres in search of the best deals of the Boxing Day sales.
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Girls gone wild dominate celebrity headlines in 2007
Posted on 25 December, 2007
A crop of girls gone wild dominated the celebrity headlines this year, but the death of former Playboy playmate Anna-Nicole Smith loomed over them all like a platinum-blonde cautionary tale.
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Toddler dies after being left in hot car
Posted on 24 December, 2007
A two-year-old girl has died after being left in a car parked outside a house in Perth's south-eastern suburbs for more than an hour during hot weather.
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Australian ambassador to lodge formal whaling protest
Posted on 21 December, 2007
Australia's ambassador to Japan will today lodge a formal diplomatic protest with Japan's Foreign Ministry over the country's ongoing whaling programs.
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Europe to enforce car emission standards
Posted on 20 December, 2007
The European Commission is to unveil proposals to force car manufacturers to limit the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by new vehicles by 2012.
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Call for alcoholic drinks to have warning labels
Posted on 19 December, 2007
The Alcohol and Other Drugs Council (AODC) says Australian authorities should consider labelling alcoholic drinks with warnings about the dangers of excessive drinking.
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Wall Street slump to fuel pressure on Aust market
Posted on 18 December, 2007
The Australian share market is likely to come under further selling pressure today after more jitters on Wall Street forced share prices on the New York Stock Exchange to slump more than 1 per cent.
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More child porn ring arrests expected
Posted on 17 December, 2007
Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty says more arrests are likely from an investigation into a child pornography ring spanning three states, after a trainee teacher, a swimming instructor and a former policeman were among six men arrested yesterday.
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US, Australia holding out on emission targets
Posted on 14 December, 2007
Some European countries are threatening to boycott climate talks in Hawaii next month unless the United States agrees to short-term global emission cuts at the current talks in Bali.
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Ike Turner dead at 76
Posted on 13 December, 2007
Rock and roll pioneer Ike Turner - who rose to fame in the 1950s and became a star performing with his ex-wife Tina Turner - has died.
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Rudd to plead for death-row Aussies
Posted on 12 December, 2007
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has told Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono he will ask him to spare the lives of six Australians on death row if legal action does not stop their executions.
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