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Another day, another safety scare for Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd.
Engineers at Singapore's Changi Airport discovered a body panel had fallen off a Qantas jumbo flying between Melbourne and the island republic, a spokeswoman said Friday.
"It had absolutely no flight safety implications," the spokeswoman said.
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 Everest conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary, who has died at the age of 88,
will be given a state funeral on January 22 in his home city Auckland,
Prime Minister Helen Clark announced Saturday.
Tributes to Hillary, who died Friday of a heart attack, shortly
before he was due to be released from hospital after treatment for
pneumonia,...
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 Sir Edmund Hillary was honoured throughout the world as the first man,
with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, to climb Mount Everest, the world's highest
peak at 8,848 metres, in 1953.
He died Friday at the age of 88. In his native land, he was the
best-loved New Zealander of his generation and could have ruled the
country for years had he...
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 An Australian ship left Perth on Tuesday to monitor Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean.
Oceanic Viking, which had 30 Customs officers on board, will spend
20 days gathering video evidence for a possible international court
action on Japan's intention this season of catching 935 minke whales
and 50 fin whales.
Initially, 50...
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 Al-Qaeda soldier David Hicks, the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be
convicted on terrorism offences, is set to leave an Australian jail
Saturday six years after being captured by US forces while fighting
with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Hicks, 32, pleaded guilty to providing material support for terrorism at his US military...
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 Part of the earthquake-stricken New Zealand city of Gisborne remained
behind barricades and under a state of emergency on Friday night as
civil defence chiefs told residents to check on their neighbours nearly
24 hours after a disastrous shake.
An elderly woman, who reportedly suffered a heart attack just after
the quake struck on...
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 A court ruling Friday cleared the way for an Indian doctor held briefly
on terrorism charges to return to his job in an Australian hospital.
In a further boost for Mohamed Haneef, Immigration Minister Chris
Evans said the Indian doctor was free to return to Australia under his
original visa.
Lawyers for Mohamed Haneef were...
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 A massive earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale struck New
Zealand on Thursday evening, collapsing three buildings and starting
several fires in the city of Gisborne, on the east coast of the North
Island, but there were no reports of serious casualties.
Police cordoned off the main street where the roofs of several
shops...
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 New Zealand and Australia announced Wednesday they will lead a formal
diplomatic protest against Japan's move to catch more than 1,000 whales
in the Antarctic over the southern hemisphere summer.
At the same time, the Greenpeace environmental organization's
protest ship Esperanza left Auckland in a bid to stop four Japanese
boats...
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 The Australian government was warned Tuesday against sending a warship
to confront the Japanese whaling fleet expected this week in the
Southern Ocean.
The Labor Party that took power after last month's general election
has pledged to stop whaling and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is mulling
options for when the whaling season...
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 Heads are expected to roll in Australia after nine Aborigines who
pleaded guilty to the gang rape of a 10-year-old girl were set free by
a court in far-north Queensland.
There were calls Tuesday for the judge and the crown prosecutor to
be sacked after a transcript of the proceedings revealed the former
said the girl...
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 West Wing creator to make Facebook movie
The creator of hit political TV series Aaron Sorkin is to write a movie about the world's most popular social networking site, Facebook, he announced Thursday in a...
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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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