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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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Leighton Holdings Ltd, Australia's biggest construction company, on Thursday reported a 35-per-cent jump in profits, mostly on a rise in contract mining.
Leighton, which is 55-per-cent owned by Germany's Hochtief AG and delivers around 70 per cent of its profits, said profit rose to 607 million Australian dollars (520 million US...
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Elephant seals rigged with sensors are helping Australian scientists collect data in the Antarctic.
"They measure temperature and salinity as a function of depth as they dive down and up through the water column, and from that information, we can determine what the ocean currents are doing," oceanographer Steve Rintoul told...
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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd praised the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Tuesday while pushing his vision of an Asian Pacific Community by 2020.
In a whirlwind visit to Singapore, Rudd laid a wreath at Kranji war cemetery before dawn, met with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong and...
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 An exploding cylinder might have made a hole in the fuselage of a Qantas Airways plane while it was flying on Friday, therefore the crew had to make an emergency landing in the Philippines. No passenger was injured.`”We've likely had a cylinder event,'' said today Neville Blyth, senior transport safety inspector at the Australian...
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 Pope Benedict XVI is expected to express his apologies to
the victims of sexual abuse inflicted by Roman Catholic clergy when he visits Australia for
World Youth Day next week, the church's senior cleric in the country announced
on Monday.
Cardinal George Pell declared that the pope had communicated
his disgrace and remorse over...
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An Australian heartbroken man who decided to put his life on
sale on the Internet was bewildered to see that bids to buy his existence had
reached about $2 million, while he thought it was only worth a quarter of that
sum.
Ian Usher, who emigrated from England to Australia six years
ago, first auctioned his life on eBay in March,...
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 Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Japanese Prime
Minister Yasuo Fukuda agreed on Thursday not to let the whale-hunt issue to
intervene in their partnership. During their several-hour talk the two decided
that the dispute over Japan's
annual whale hunts should not come between their plans to strengthen their
security and...
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 An Australian jury proved to be quite a disappointment for
both the judge and the lawyers who have been dealing with a drug trial for the past three months. It
turned out that five members of the jury in case were playing Sudoku during the
hearing while everybody thought that they were taking notes. As a result, Sydney
District Court...
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 Sydney, Australia – The investigations of a global child
pornography network obliged the Australian police take measures and entitled
them to arrest 70 people and to remove four children from their homes. Twenty
other persons are expected to appear in front of the court the following days
and more arrests are foreseen.
All of them...
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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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