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After four embryos kept in glass jars were found in the home of a woman who died last week in Innsbruck, the state prosecutor confirmed Thursday that DNA tests would be conducted to determine their origin.
The 68-year-old woman had asked her partner to dispose of the embryos before she died a natural death, but he decided to inform police.
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Teenage pop singer Gabriella Cilmi on Tuesday cancelled a first concert in her Melbourne hometown so she could appear on television in Germany.
The 17-year-old, whose debut album Lesson To Be Learned has been a hit in Germany, said she would be on a plane to Europe on December 7 rather than on stage in Australia's second-biggest...
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The world's first climate change refugees will be relocated from their Pacific island home on the Solomon Islands to neighbouring Papua New Guinea next year, news reports said Wednesday.
The Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation said 40 families from Malaita Province will be relocated to Bougainville in March because rising sea...
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Australian banks Tuesday pulled the rug from under debt-laden local leveraged buy-out specialist Allco Finance Group.
Receivers were appointed for Allco and its shares placed in a trading halt after talks with the 12 banks failed to reach agreement on a repayment schedule for debts of 667 million Australian dollars (446 million US...
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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrived in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu Friday evening for a two-day visit.
During his stay in Nepal, Ban is scheduled to meet Nepalese President Ram Baran Yadav, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Foreign Minister Upendra Yadav and other politicians.
Talks with Nepalese leaders...
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Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, will tour the world with a reconstituted Jackson 5, his older brother Jermaine Jackson said in Sydney on Wednesday.
"This has been a long time coming for the Jackson family to get back together," Jackson told Australia's AAP news agency. "It's just the timing," he said....
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Australian stocks recovered from early losses Tuesday on positive leads from Japan and Hong Kong.
The ASX 200 ended the day 14 points down at 3,794 after trading in a range of 70 points on very thin volumes.
"It's very typical of a market trying to find a level," Macquarie Private Wealth economist Martin Laycoss said....
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Kevin Rudd needed something to give his poll ratings pep and it came in the ghastly form of a stock market meltdown that wilted the pension plans of millions of Australians.
Now, the approval ratings of the 50-year-old former diplomat, a year into his first spell as prime minister, suggest he could walk on water.
"It puts him...
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Australian stocks continued their climb Tuesday, buoyed by a 4.6-per-cent gain overnight on Wall Street.
The ASX 200 added 160 points, or 3.8 per cent, to 4,302.
The positive sentiment came after Monday's 4.3-per-cent increase on the bellwether index.
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Identical triplets scored identical grades in their final year at an Australian high school and were each awarded prizes for top achievement.
"It's nice coming out equal because we always get asked who's the smartest," Kate Stevenson, flanked by sisters Amy and Lisa, said Friday.
"It was something we all were...
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An Air Emirates flight to Dubai returned to Perth Thursday and made an emergency landing in the west coast Australian city after a smell was detected in the cabin.
The Airbus 340-500 landed safely after returning to Perth one and a half hours into the flight.
The 120 passengers on flight EK425 disembarked normally, the...
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Australian stocks follow Wall Street down
Steep falls on Wall Street and fears of an impending recession at home dragged Australian stocks down Thursday.
The ASX 200 gave up 146 points, or 4. 3 per cent, to...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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