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Flood-stricken towns in Australia have been swamped by more heavy rainfall, forcing people to flee their homes.
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An Englishman caught: Pietersen fined for speeding
Thursday, 9 December 2010
Ashes star Kevin Pietersen was today fined for speeding after taking a loaned Lamborghini for a drive on a day off from England training.
Briton found dead in Australian detention centre
Wednesday, 8 December 2010
A British man who died in an Australian immigration centre today has been named by sources as 29-year-old David Saunders.
Family's fight set to earn 'killer' pardon 60 years on
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
One of Australia's worst miscarriages of justice – the conviction of an itinerant sheep shearer for the murder of a man whose body was not found until 70 years later – is about to be righted, thanks to a campaign by his family.
Mayor of Pitcairn island charged with child porn offences
Monday, 6 December 2010
The mayor of Pitcairn Island, the British territory in the South Pacific convulsed by a child sexual abuse scandal in recent years, has been charged with multiple counts of possessing child pornography.
First the bangs. Then an engine caught fire.
Saturday, 4 December 2010
Kathy Marks: Report reveals frantic efforts to avert disaster on Qantas jet.
A sweet success as New Zealand declared true home of pavlova
Friday, 3 December 2010
The argument has raged for nearly a century: did Australia or New Zealand invent the pavlova, a dessert of meringue, whipped cream, soft fruit and sugar?
Adrift boys were looking for vodka
Thursday, 2 December 2010
Three teenagers cast adrift in the Pacific Ocean for 50 days admitted yesterday that they had been in search of vodka.
Race row on Tolkien film after extra told: 'You've got to look like a hobbit'
Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Just 5ft tall and a fan of The Lord of the Rings, Naz Humphreys believed she would make a perfect hobbit. So when the chance of a bit-part in Peter Jackson's new film project came up, she seized it. What she did not expect was to be told she was not white enough.
Australian police investigate Assange over leaks
Monday, 29 November 2010
Police were investigating today whether any Australian law was broken by the latest leaking of confidential documents by online whistleblower WikiLeaks.
Adrift on the Pacific for 50 days – and it was all down to love
Monday, 29 November 2010
Love – fuelled by copious amounts of alcohol – sparked an ill-fated voyage by three teenagers who were rescued last week after drifting for 50 days in the South Pacific.
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