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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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 Australian police arrested eight protesters after they
climbed a fence into a government site Wednesday in order to protest the
culling of 400 kangaroos, which are viewed as sacred symbols by Australians, Reuters
reports.
The eight Aboriginal activists led by renowned activist Isabel Coe climbed
over a gate to enter the abandoned...
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 Representatives of an animal protective
group demanded the Australian military to stop the killing of 400 kangaroos in
the capital Canberra.
Wildlife Protection Association of Australia president, Pat O'Brien,
said Tuesday he and other protesters planned to intervene if the killing
continued. The Defense Department says 400 eastern...
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 A lucky Australian swimmer managed to survive a shark attack
by punching and poking the beast in the eyes, as it dragged him through the
water after badly savaging his left leg, Reuters reports.
Jason Cull was swimming off a beach on Australia’s southwest coast on
Sunday when the 12 feet shark attacked. “Initially I thought it...
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 The Australian gay community will have a few reasons to be
happy about from now on. Wednesday, the Australian government announced that
about one hundred laws will be changed in favor of the same-sex couples. However,
marriages for gay and lesbians were still not accepted. Attorney General
Robert McClelland said that the changes come...
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 An Australian teenager was killed in a shark attack on
Tuesday while surfing with a friend at Balina, on the New South Wales coast, Reuters reports.
Brock Curtis-Matthew tried to help his 16-year-old friend, Peter Edmonds, swimming
towards him, even though he knew that the shark was in the water. He
managed to get his friend up onto...
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 An Australian woman who had an apparently healthy baby with
her father pleaded for approval of the couple’s incestuous relationship. Both
father and daughter appeared on national television with their nine-old-month
child, Celeste. After going public, they are currently being monitored by
police and social services.
Jenny...
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 Governments around the world are trying to reduce emissions
of carbon gases because these are responsible for global warming. Australia has
made the first step in this process. A large underground carbon storage
facility was opened in the southern state of Victoria,
near the town of Warrnambool, west of Melbourne. It will
capture...
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 A New
Zealand teenager was convicted on Tuesday
due to his major role in a global cyber crime ring that managed to infect
nearly 1.3 million computers worldwide and caused $20 million in losses. The
investigation was launched after an assault involving 50,000 computers crashed
the server at the University of Pennsylvania in the...
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 Two pilots were wounded by a
woman in an attempt to hijack a regional domestic flight in New Zealand
Friday, the Associated Press reports.
The woman was carrying a knife
and stabbed the two pilots, and also threatened to blow up the 19-seat
Jetstream J32, which had on board four New Zealanders, an Australian and an
Indian...
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 The new Australian Prime Minister Kevin Ruud will
present the first formal apology to “the stolen generations” for the policies led
in the past by the state of Australia,
according to which Aboriginal children were taken from their families.
The apology will be made on Feb. 13 and
represents the first topic on the agenda in 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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