Australian drug runners using dead kangaroos
Sydney - Drugs are being smuggled into Aboriginal communities in Australia's far north inside dead kangaroos, the Northern Territory parliament was told Tuesday. Former indigenous affairs minister Alison Anderson said cannabis was being sewn inside k...
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Lucky, the world's oldest sheep, dead at 23
Sydney - Lucky, a ewe who got into the Guinness Book of World Records two years ago for being the world's oldest sheep, has died at the Australian farm where she was born 23 years ago, news reports said Tuesday. Delrae Westgarth, who adopted Lucky af...
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Hive heist stings New Zealand beekeeper
Wellington - A New Zealand beekeeper has been stung by rustlers who stole more than a million of his honey producers in 28 hives from a farm paddock, a newspaper reported on Tuesday. John Tyler, of Matamata, 55 kilometres from Rotorua in the central ...
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Australia edges closer to carbon-trading scheme
Sydney - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd could get his wish and have legislation for a national carbon-trading scheme through Parliament before he attends next month's climate conference in Copenhagen. Rudd's Labor government on Tuesday sealed a...
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Death toll rises to 27 in Indonesian ferry accident
Jakarta - Indonesian rescue workers resumed their search Monday for dozens of people missing people after an overloaded ferry sank in bad weather off the island of Sumatra, officials said. Rescue teams had picked up about 250 survivors and 27 bodies ...
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2009-11-23 ] Category : [
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