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Australia on net censorship blacklist

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A TOP media rights watchdog has listed Australia along with Iran and North Korea in a report on countries that pose a threat of internet censorship. ...read article

Cardinal questions priest celibacy

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A SENIOR cardinal has called for priestly celibacy to be re-examined in the light of sex scandals sweeping the Roman Catholic Church. ...read article

Tremors as new Chile leader sworn in

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STRONG aftershocks and a tsunami alert rocked Chile as rightwing billionaire Sebastian Pinera was sworn in as the new President of the earthquake-hit nation. ...read article

Jakarta's smuggle law years away

The Australian: World: 9 hours ago
SUSILO Bambang Yudhoyono's promise to introduce laws punishing people-smuggling with five-year jail terms was largely for political effect and could be years from being passed. ...read article

Bruni says Sarkozy would never cheat

The Australian: World: 9 hours ago
CARLA Bruni, the singer-wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, has vouched for her husband after some foreign media outlets reported their marriage was in difficulty. ...read article

Haiti asks US for $15bn aid package

The Australian: World: 9 hours ago
HAITI'S President is asking for a $US14 billion ($15.3bn) aid package to turn the rubble of Port-au-Prince into a thriving modern city after January's earthquake. ...read article

UN panel to review climate body

The Australian: World: 9 hours ago
THE UN has launched an independent review of its peak climate change body in the wake of damaging controversies. ...read article

Vanuatu prisoner beaten to death

The Australian: World: 9 hours ago
A PRISON escapee was beaten to death and other fleeing inmates were severely injured by paramilitary officers in Vanuatu who were ordered to break the legs of those involved in the breakout, an inquest has found. ...read article

Israel 'wrecks' Mid-East peace talks

The Australian: World: 9 hours ago
THE Middle East peace process was in tatters last night and Israel's coalition government faced crisis after it announced a huge new housing development in the Arab area of East Jerusalem. ...read article

Anyone for tennis, or murder? Ad mocks Mossad

The Australian: World: 9 hours ago
MOSSAD mania continued in Israel this week when a supermarket chain filmed a marketing campaign inspired by the assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai by a 27-strong hit squad. ...read article

Haim falls victim to Hollywood demons

The Australian: World: 9 hours ago
ACTOR Corey Haim's story is sadly familiar in Hollywood: a teen talent who discovered drugs as he tasted his first success and whose personal problems increased as his star-power faded. ...read article

Nigerian killings 'acts of revenge'

The Australian: World: 9 hours ago
DAYS after the mass slaughter of up to 500 people in three Nigerian villages, suspects rounded up by police yesterday told of brutal acts of sectarian retribution. ...read article

Suave cat burglar moving up

The Australian: World: 9 hours ago
TO the Los Angeles Police Department, he is known simply as "Rico Suave". ...read article

Science body to review UN climate panel

The Australian: World: 15 hours ago
A RESPECTED international scientific body will review the UN's Nobel prize-winning climate panel, under fire for errors, UN chief Ban Ki-moon says. ...read article

'Aussie threat' shuts US city schools

The Australian: World: 15 hours ago
A VAGUE threat apparently posted by an Australian on two social networking websites led to the lockdown today of all schools in the US city of Minneapolis. ...read article

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