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Todays Australian News
- Burma seizes UN food deliveries
Burma's junta has impounded two United Nations food aid shipments at Rangoon airport, officials said, triggering more outrage at the military government's refusal to accept a major international relief operation.
- Houston believes Taliban 'mistreatment' claims are false
The head of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) says he ordered an investigation the moment allegations were made that Australian soldiers mistreated Taliban detainees in Afghanistan.
- League legend Gibson dies
Australian rugby league's coach of the century, Jack Gibson, has passed away following a long battle with illness.
- Austrian incest father remanded for a month
An Austrian court has ordered Josef Fritzl, who kept his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and had seven children with her, to be kept in custody for a further month, a court spokesman said.
- Police prepare to move Perth toddler's body
Attempts will begin tonight to remove the body of Perth boy Imran Zilic from a mine shaft area in South Australia's far north.
- Ombudsman urged to release report into Qld disability home
The father of a whistleblower says the Queensland Ombudsman should publicly release a report into allegations of maladministration at a State Government-run disability home, south of Brisbane.
- Russia remembers WWII with lavish victory parade
For the first time since the break-up of the Soviet Union, heavy military hardware has featured in the Victory Day parade in Moscow.
- Woman found dead, man stabbed in Bathurst home
Police say they have found a woman's body and a man suffering stab wounds at a house in Bathurst, in the state's central west.
- Arabs call for urgent meeting on Lebanon crisis
Regional powerhouse Saudi Arabia has led calls for an urgent meeting of Arab foreign ministers to try to end the crisis in Lebanon as scores of foreign nationals fled the fighting in Beirut.
- Beijing subway security checks hard to swallow
Workers in some subway stations in Olympic host city Beijing have started asking passengers carrying bottled drinks to take a swig to prove they are not carrying banned liquids like petrol, local media reported on Friday (local time).
- Kangaroos edge out defiant Kiwis
Australia held off a second half of confident football from New Zealand to defeat the visitors 28-12 in the Centenary Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday night. |
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