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Drain explorer lost for three days
Sydney - An Australian exploring drains is lucky to be alive after spending three cold mid-winter days below the streets of Melbourne, officials said Saturday. He must have gained access via an open drain in the vicinity somewhere and tunnelled down...
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Beatified body arrives for Sydney's World Youth Day
Sydney - The body of Pier Giorgio Frassati, who died in 1925 and was beatified by the Catholic Church in 1990, arrived in Australia on Friday in readiness for its adoration by pilgrims during next month's World Youth Day in Sydney. It's the first tim...
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Australia again rejects nuclear power
Sydney - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has reiterated his opposition to nuclear power after luminaries from within his own Labor Party described it as an essential bridge to a non-carbon future. On the question of nuclear, we believe that we ...
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East Timor president won't seek UN post
Sydney - East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta has decided against trying to become the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, fearing it would disrupt his newly independent country, news reports from Dili said Friday. The 58-year-old Nob...
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Murder-suicide suspected at Australian 'hippy commune'
Sydney - Police Friday were searching for the mother of three children, victims in a suspected murder-suicide, who were found dead in a car with their father at what neighbours described as an old hippy commune in a remote part of Australia's south...
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Gay Catholics unwanted at Sydney's World Youth Day
Sydney - A lobby group of gay and lesbian Catholics was told Friday it could not convene a forum as part of next month's World Youth Day in Sydney. The group, which calls itself Acceptance, had initially been promised it could be part of an event hel...
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