Khodorkovsky starts life as a free man

Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky has arrived in Germany after being freed from a Russian prison. Source: AAP RUSSIA'S most famous prisoner, Kremlin critic and former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, has begun life as a free man in Germany...

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Attacks across Iraq leave 15 people dead

A STRING of attacks across Iraq has killed 15 people, including a senior military commander, a colonel and five soldiers who all died during a raid on an al-Qaeda hideout, officials said. You have reached your daily Guest Accesslimit of 2* FREE...

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US military aircraft hit in South Sudan

TWO US military aircraft responding to the outbreak of violence in South Sudan have been hit by incoming fire, wounding three US service members. Two officials said the aircraft were heading to Bor, the capital of the state of Jonglei and scene...

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Saudi Arabia reports death from new virus

SAUDI Arabia says one more person has died from a new respiratory virus related to SARS, bringing to 56 the number of deaths in the kingdom at the centre of the outbreak. You have reached your daily Guest Accesslimit of 2* FREE ARTICLES. REGISTER...

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Tibetan campaigner arrives in Dharmsala

A 42-YEAR-OLD Tibetan has arrived at the headquarters of the government-in-exile in India after cycling through Europe and Asia in a campaign protesting China's heavy-handed rule in the Himalayan region. News+ Oops! Please register or log in...

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Haiyan rebuilding to take five years

The death toll from Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines has soared past 5600 and continues to rise. Source: AAP REBUILDING areas devastated by a super typhoon that killed thousands in the Philippines will take up to five years and cost more than...

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No Aussies caught in helicopter pub crash

IT appears that no Australians were in a Glasgow pub when a police helicopter crashed into the roof on Friday night killing at least one person. There were more than 100 revellers in the Clutha pub when the incident occurred and the death toll...

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New test may help with Bladder cancer

A SIMPLE urine test may be able to distinguish between aggressive and low-grade bladder cancers, allowing doctors to tailor personalised treatments, say scientists. News+ Oops! Please register or log in to continue. (It's quick, easy and free.)...

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Plane crash in Alaska, four dead

A PLANE crash near the remote western Alaska village of Saint Marys has killed four of the 10 people aboard, including a baby boy, an Alaska State Troopers spokeswoman said. News+ Oops! Please register or log in to continue. (It's quick, easy...

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French tax protests rumble on

THOUSANDS of trucks blocked highways and roads across France in ongoing protests over an environmental tax that continue to smoulder, despite the government putting the levy on ice. News+ Oops! Please register or log in to continue. (It's quick,...

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Militants attack polio team in Pakistan

From: AAP December 01, 2013 12:55AM MILITANTS have attacked police protecting an anti-polio team in Pakistan's troubled...

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Two-time shark victim feels he was spared

An abalone diver who survived two separate shark attacks nine years apart feels God saved his life. Source: AAP THE abalone diver who incredibly survived a second shark attack has revealed he did not see the great white that tried to bite his...

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Aust asylum patrol boats for Sri Lanka

Blues, Vics take crucial wins VICTORIA and NSW take crucial Sheffield Shield wins while South Australia and Western Australia produce a record draw. Dot London domain name approved THE British capital has won approval to use the .london...

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Story Bridge southbound reopened

Prison boss probe over love triangle A QUEENSLAND prison boss is under investigation by Corrective Services after being publicly outed on Facebook over an affair with a junior female clerk. Abbott Govt targets welfare rorts HANDOUTS will...

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Seven held over UK body-in-well

SEVEN people have been arrested by UK police on suspicion of murder after a body was found in a well. Gardeners made the grim discovery at a private house on Friday afternoon. The body is still in the well at the property in Audley Drive, Warlingham,...

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Severe storms can't dampen Schoolies

Blues, Vics take crucial wins VICTORIA and NSW take crucial Sheffield Shield wins while South Australia and Western Australia produce a record draw. Dot London domain name approved THE British capital has won approval to use the .london...

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Hellish search continues in Philippines

JOHN Lajara peers under a slab of crumbled concrete, lifts a sodden white teddy bear then drops it back into the filth. But he's searching for something far more precious - the body of his brother, Winston. News+ Oops! Please register or log...

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Don't expect a China baby boom: experts

Blues, Vics take crucial wins VICTORIA and NSW take crucial Sheffield Shield wins while South Australia and Western Australia produce a record draw. Dot London domain name approved THE British capital has won approval to use the .london...

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ALP and Coaltion neck and neck: poll

THE coalition and the ALP led by new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd are neck and neck in the lead up to the federal election, a poll shows. On a two-party preferred result, the Labor Party would receive 49 per cent of votes compared to the coalition's...

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Rudd to promote more women to cabinet

PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd intends to promote a record number of women into his cabinet, which will be sworn in on Monday. Mr Rudd, who regained the leadership after toppling Australia's first woman prime minister Julia Gillard last week, will...

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Obama meets family of ailing hero Mandela

US President Barack Obama has met the family of his "inspiration" Nelson Mandela, but was unable to visit the anti-apartheid legend who remains critically ill in hospital. Despite tentative signs of an improvement in the condition of the father...

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Qld man killed in gunpowder blast

Lion tamers take series to the wire Iain Payten A BOLD captain's call and a nerveless conversion by a second-game "debutant" saw the Wallabies snatch a thrilling victory over the Lions in Melbourne. Lions Tour 1 gallery GalleryGallery Wallabies...

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Singapore goes pink to support gay rights

MORE than 20,000 people wearing pink clothing have gathered in Singapore for an annual rally in support of gay rights in the city-state, where an archaic law criminalises sex between men. News+ Oops! Please register or log in to continue. (It's...

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Paris celebrates Gay Pride and marriage

TENS of thousands of people have thronged the streets of Paris to mark the city's Gay Pride, exactly one month to the day since France celebrated its first gay marriage. To the sounds of techno music, the rainbow-decorated parade wound its way...

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Legislative changes for WA renters, miners

RENTAL home tenants, landlords and property managers in Western Australia have new rights and obligations after an overhaul of the Residential Tenancies Act, which is about to come into effect. The state government said the changes, which come...

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$100m Vic budget boost for Frankston line

TRAIN services are set to be more reliable on one of Melbourne's busiest rail services under a $100 million boost that will be part of this week's state budget, the government says. Premier Denis Napthine will on Sunday announce a cash injection...

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Pakistan officials visit hurt prisoner

PAKISTANI embassy officials have visited a hospital in north India where a Pakistani prisoner is in critical condition in the intensive care unit after being attacked by an Indian inmate. Convicted murderer Sanaullah Ranjay suffered multiple...

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Orthodox Christians mark 'Holy Fire' rite

THRONGS of Orthodox Christians have filled Jerusalem's ancient Church of the Holy Sepulchre and surrounding streets for the "Holy Fire" ceremony on the eve of Orthodox Easter. Believers hold that a divine fire from heaven ignites candles held...

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At least 62 bodies found: Syria watchdog

THE bodies of at least 62 murdered residents have been found in a Sunni neighbourhood of the Syrian city of Banias, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says. "The bodies of dozens of citizens killed on Friday during an assault by the army...

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Two dead in Belgian train accident

TWO people died and 14 were injured when a train carrying chemicals derailed in Belgium, causing a major fire near the city of Ghent. Jan Briers, governor of eastern Flanders, gave the death toll to the Belga news agency after the accident and...

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Iceland to resume disputed fin whale hunt

ICELAND plans to resume its disputed commercial fin whale hunt in June with a quota of at least 154 whales, the head of the only company that catches the giant mammals says. Two vessels are being prepared for the hunt and they will head out...

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Egypt mob lynches teenager over killing

AN EGYPTIAN mob has lynched the teenage son of a Muslim Brotherhood leader, saying he killed a man over Facebook comments critical of the movement. The violence that took place on Thursday in the Nile Delta was the latest in a spate of vigilante...

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Syria spillover risk, say analysts

SYRIA'S neighbours face a growing risk of the conflict spilling across their region with Bashar al-Assad turning to ever more desperate acts to halt rebels, analysts say. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki voiced such concerns on Saturday when...

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Navajo the chosen one for new 'Star Wars'

THE classic Star Wars film that launched a science fiction empire is being dubbed in the Navajo language. A handful of Navajo speakers have translated the script for Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and people are now being sought to fill some...

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Man arrested over poisoned letters

A MISSISSIPPI man has been arrested on suspicion of sending poisoned letters to US President Barack Obama and others. Everett Dutschke, 41, was arrested about 12:50am (3:50pm AEST) Saturday at his Tupelo home in connection with the letters,...

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Colombian teen hired gun confesses murders

A 19-YEAR-OLD hired gun has told Colombian police he committed more than 30 murders, blaming poverty and his father's violence. "Seeing the powerlessness when I heard my parents saying they didn't have money for the rent and didn't know how...

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Italy government unveiled

ITALY'S incoming prime minister Enrico Letta has finally unveiled his new government line-up. The breakthrough ends a two-month deadlock that saw former premier Silvio Berlusconi reassert his status as a key player and tested the patience of...

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Duke 'well' despite bruised eye

BUCKINGHAM Palace has played down fears about the Duke of Edinburgh's health after he was pictured with a badly bruised eye. The Duke, 91, was photographed in Canada with the mark below his right eye during his first major foreign trip since...

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US authorities make arrest in ricin probe

US authorities have arrested a man as part of a probe into poison-laced letters sent to President Barack Obama and others. Everett Dutschke was taken into custody "without incident" at his home in Tupelo, Mississippi, early Saturday morning,...

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156 dead, thousands injured in China quake

Hundreds of people are dead or injured after a 6.6 magnitude earthquake in China's Sichuan province. Source: AAP A POWERFUL earthquake struck the steep hills of China's southwestern Sichuan province on Saturday, leaving at least 156 people...

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Morsi to reshuffle Egypt cabinet: aide

EGYPT'S Islamist President Mohamed Morsi is set to announce a cabinet reshuffle, a presidential aide says, but it is unlikely to meet opposition demands for a complete overhaul of the government. Morsi wrote on his Twitter account that he would...

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Thousands rally at scandal-hit UK hospital

THOUSANDS of people have flooded a British town centre in a demonstration aimed at keeping major services at a scandal-hit hospital. Campaigners of all ages packed into the Market Square in Stafford for the rally and public march, many holding...

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Special team to query US bombing suspect

ARMED guards are protecting the hospital where the wounded surviving Boston marathon bombing suspect is in serious condition and unable to be questioned to determine the motives behind the blasts. US officials said a special interrogation team...

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Vic Point Nepean master plan released

SOME things in life don't change, even over the course of more than 150 years. From the mid 1850s, unwell first-class passengers arriving at Point Nepean in Victoria were given the best rooms with a view at the quarantine station so they could...

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Bomb blast on bus kills nine in Pakistan

A BOMB blast on a bus in Peshawar has killed at least nine people, in the latest attack to hit Pakistan's troubled northwest ahead of historic polls next month. The explosion occurred just hours after militants blew up the election offices of...

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Newtown mum pleads for gun control

THE mother of a 6-year-old boy killed in the Newtown school shooting in the US has made a deeply personal plea from the White House for action to combat gun violence, choking back tears almost from the start of her speech. Francine Wheeler, whose...

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Body found as Tibet mine disaster 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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Tanzanian building collapse toll hits 19

THE death toll from a building collapse in Tanzania's economic capital Dar es Salaam has risen to 19, officials say. "Two more bodies were found this afternoon," regional commissioner Saidi Mecky Sadicky told AFP, updating an earlier toll of 17...

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Attacks leave more than 50 dead in Nigeria

ATTACKS on villages surrounding a central Nigerian city at the heart of unrest between Christians and Muslims have killed more than 50 people this week. Officials say an assault on Wednesday on a village in the Riyom local government area killed...

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Napolitano bids to end impasse in Italy

ITALIAN President Giorgio Napolitano has asked two unidentified "groups" to come up with a program for government in a bid to end a deadlock between parties more than a month after elections that left no clear winner. Napolitano stressed that...

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Court upholds election of Kenya's Kenyatta

KENYA'S Supreme Court has upheld the victory of Uhuru Kenyatta in the March 4 presidential election. The court unanimously ruled that the election had been conducted in a "free, fair, transparent and credible" manner and that Kenyatta and his...

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Mandela 'breathing without difficulty'

NELSON Mandela is comfortable and breathing without difficulty on his third day in hospital after the anti-apartheid hero was treated for pneumonia, South Africa's presidency says. Messages of concern for the ailing 94-year-old, one of the towering...

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Two dead, hundreds rescued off Italy

TWO migrants have died at sea while trying to reach Italian shores from North Africa, while hundreds more were rescued and taken to the island of Lampedusa. The victims were on a rubber dinghy with 88 other would-be migrants. They were spotted...

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Anglican leader to skip pope inauguration

THE new leader of the world's Anglicans, Justin Welby, will miss the inauguration of Pope Francis next week as he will be on a "pilgrimage of prayer", his residence has announced. Welby, who became Archbishop of Canterbury last month, will be...

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Tense Zimbabwe votes on new constitution

ZIMBABWEANS have voted on a new constitution that would pave the way for crucial elections in a country plagued by political violence. Voters are expected to roundly back the text, which would introduce presidential term limits, beef up parliament's...

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Swiss tourist gang-raped in India: police

A SWISS female tourist was gang-raped in central India in front of her husband, police say, renewing the focus on the issue of sexual violence against women in the South Asian nation. The woman was on a cycling trip with her husband in impoverished...

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Police injured in "cowardly" brick attack

A PARTY of over 250 people turned violent in Brisbane's south overnight, leaving two officers with head injuries. It is believed out of control party-goers attacked the officers with bricks, before fleeing the scene. Regional Duty Officer for...

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Syria troop build up on Lebanon border

LEBANON must prevent fighters from crossing into Syria, Lebanese President Michel Sleiman says, after Damascus threatened to respond to cross-border infiltrations. Shortly after his office announced the comments, made in a meeting with the Lebanese...

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