Sydney teacher sacked over nude photo
Sydney - A Sydney primary school teacher said Friday she would take legal action to get her job back after being sacked for appearing nude with her husband in a women's magazine. Lynne Tziolas was dismissed by her head teacher last week after a compl...
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Gene sleuths decode Australia's joke animal
Sydney - Australia's early settlers were mystified by the platypus, an animal that looked like nothing else on earth and had the strangest of habits. A team of international researchers released its genetic blueprint Thursday, and its genes turned ou...
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New Zealand buying five helicopters from Italy
Wellington - The New Zealand government signed a contract Thursday to buy five Agusta-Westland training and light utility helicopters to be built at the company's Italian plant near Milan. Defence Minister Phil Goff signed the agreement at parliament...
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New Zealand increases aid to Myanmar
Wellington - New Zealand is contributing 1.5 million New Zealand dollars (about 1.2 million US) to United Nations' efforts to help Myanmar recover from the devastation caused by Cyclone Nargis, Prime Minister Helen Clark said Thursday. She announced ...
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New Zealand jobs shrink in 'shocker' survey
Wellington - New Zealand's Labour-led coalition government, which would seek re-election this year, moved into damage control mode Thursday after a survey showed unemployment rising and the number of workers falling. The figures, coming after steady ...
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EXTRA: Austrians criticize authorities in incest case
Vienna - A huge majority of Austrians believe that the authorities made grave mistakes in the Amstetten incest case where a father sexually abused and imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered seven children with her. Claims by authorities th...
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Austrian dungeon father attempts to justify actions
Vienna - Alleged multiple rapist Josef Fritzl, 73, who fathered seven children with his daughter whom he subjected to 24 years in a windowless dungeon, is attempting to cast himself as a lifesaver, according to Austrian press reports Wednesday. In re...
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New Zealand Mother's Day spat - phone or send a card?
Wellington - A row broke out in New Zealand on Wednesday over how best to mark Mother's Day, which is being celebrated in the country on Sunday - call her on the telephone or send a card?Cameron Brewer, who heads a retail business group in Auckland's...
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