Female suicide bomber kills 4 in Pakistan

A female suicide bomber has blown herself up outside a hospital in Pakistan, killing four people. Source: AAP A FEMALE suicide bomber has blown herself up outside a hospital in a lawless tribal area of northwest Pakistan, killing at least...

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Man arrested over India girl's brutal rape

The kidnapping and brutal rape of a five-year-old Indian girl has triggered protests across India. Source: AAP A FIVE-YEAR-OLD Indian girl who was abducted, raped and tortured in New Delhi was alert and stable, doctors said, as fresh protests...

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156 dead, thousands injured in China quake

Hundreds of people are dead or injured after a 6.6 magnitude earthquake in China's Sichuan province. Source: AAP A POWERFUL earthquake struck the steep hills of China's southwestern Sichuan province on Saturday, leaving at least 156 people...

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Morsi to reshuffle Egypt cabinet: aide

EGYPT'S Islamist President Mohamed Morsi is set to announce a cabinet reshuffle, a presidential aide says, but it is unlikely to meet opposition demands for a complete overhaul of the government. Morsi wrote on his Twitter account that he would...

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Thousands rally at scandal-hit UK hospital

THOUSANDS of people have flooded a British town centre in a demonstration aimed at keeping major services at a scandal-hit hospital. Campaigners of all ages packed into the Market Square in Stafford for the rally and public march, many holding...

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Warsaw marks 70 years since ghetto stand

SIRENS wailed and church bells tolled in Warsaw as largely Roman Catholic Poland paid homage to the Jewish fighters who rose up 70 years ago against German Nazi forces in the Warsaw ghetto uprising. The mournful sounds on Friday marked the start...

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Suspect's uncle condemns bombing in US

FRIENDS and relatives of the Boston marathon bombing suspects have reacted in shock as one was killed and the other remained the target of a massive manhunt. The surviving bomb suspect is Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old. His uncle, Ruslan...

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Suspected Boston bombers fled Chechnya

DZHOKHAR and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, suspected of bombing the Boston marathon, appear to hail from Russia's war-torn Chechnya, but had been in the United States for several years. The North Caucasus region of Chechnya has been ravaged by two back-to-back...

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US stocks open mixed on earnings reports

US stocks have traded mixed in early trade after a deluge of earnings reports gave conflicting signals about the state of the economy. About 30 minutes into trade on Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 42.85 (0.29 per cent) to 14,494.29....

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Boston becomes battle zone

BOSTON is a city under siege, as more than 9000 police backed by helicopters and armoured vehicles hunt for the man wanted for the deadly marathon bombings. The search for 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left hundreds of thousands of people cowering...

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O'Farrell says he backs gay marriage

NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell has come out in favour of same-sex marriage, labelling claims that it undermines the institution of marriage as "utterly ridiculous". Mr O'Farrell declared his support for a change to the Marriage Act in the wake of...

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US stocks opened mixed

US stocks have opened mixed, as a batch of solid corporate earnings competed with gloomy trends in key commodity markets. Five minutes into trading on Thursday the Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 17.90 points, or 0.12 per cent, to 14,600.69....

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Twitter launches music-finding service

TWITTER has launched a music service that recommends tunes based on what people are 'tweeting' about and lets people sample songs they might like. "We're releasing Twitter #music, a new service that will change the way people find music, based...

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Rio puts faith in iron ore post-Alcan

RIO Tinto has admitted it was a big mistake to purchase aluminium maker Alcan six years ago and as a result the company is now more likely to favour some commodities over others. Addressing his first annual general meeting as chief executive,...

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Man charged over bus driver assault

A MAN will face court after he allegedly bashed a bus driver in western Sydney. Police said they charged the man, 42, with assault occasioning actual bodily harm following an incident on a bus at Chester Hill about 11.15am (AEST) on Wednesday....

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French executives in breast implant trial

FRANCE has launched one of its biggest-ever trials as five managers from company PIP faced charges of selling faulty breast implants that sparked a global health scare. More than 5000 women registered as plaintiffs in the case, which sees the...

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Undisclosed glitch disrupts Google Mail

GOOGLE has suffered disruptions on several of its cloud-based services including Google Mail for about two hours for reasons that were not disclosed. The apps status dashboard of the world's most popular search engine indicated "service disruptions"...

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Obama letter had suspicious substance

A LETTER addressed to President Barack Obama containing a "suspicious" substance has been intercepted at a mail screening facility outside the White House, the US Secret Service says. The letter was discovered at the remote facility which is...

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EU mulls easing Syria oil embargo

THE European Union is considering a case-by-case easing of its oil embargo against Syria in order to help the opposition, diplomatic sources say. A decision, which would be formally agreed by EU foreign ministers at talks next Monday in Luxembourg,...

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France unveils plan to reach 2014 deficit

FRANCE has presented a plan to get its public deficit back under the EU limit by 2014, having decided to let debt grow further as it tries to jumpstart a sputtering economy. The plan to bring the deficit below 3.0 per cent of gross domestic product...

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Mt Isa locals free to leave homes: police

MOUNT Isa residents are being told they can leave their houses after a warning was issued for locals to stay indoors due to a blast at an acid plant. A chemical tank exploded at an Incitec Pivot facility near the Mount Isa mine at about 6.30pm...

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Mum and dad equally good at baby's cry ID

FRENCH researchers have dealt a blow to folklore that says mothers are better than fathers in recognising their baby's cry. The "maternal instinct" notion gained scientific backing more than three decades ago through two experiments, one of which...

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Terror wins if runners alter plans: Howard

FORMER prime minister John Howard says Australians shouldn't be deterred from running in the London marathon following terror blasts in Boston. Two bombs exploded at the Boston marathon on Monday, killing at least three people and wounding more...

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Obama: Boston attacks act of terror

US President Barack Obama has branded the Boston bombings a "cowardly" act of terror, but says it is still unclear if a foreign or domestic group or individual was behind the attacks. "This was a heinous and cowardly act," Obama said at the...

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Boston victims suffer amputations

THE victims of the Boston Marathon bombings were peppered with nails and pellets, doctors say, adding that the most severely wounded required amputation. The twin blasts near the finish line in the northeastern US city on Monday claimed three...

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NSW govt to fast-track new homes

COUNCILS could be forced to approve development applications for new homes in just 10 days under proposed reforms to NSW planning laws. A government white paper out Tuesday recommends forcing councils to give rulings on DAs within 10 days or...

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Welfare tragic for indigenous: Pearson

ABORIGINAL leader Noel Pearson says welfare entitlement has been "a tragic disability" for his people. Mr Pearson has backed comments by indigenous academic Marcia Langton that a sense of entitlement had poisoned Aboriginal society. "It's been...

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Aussies fret more, but drink less: study

AUSTRALIANS have cut down on smoking and drinking, but they have gained weight and become more anxious, a major research project shows. A survey of 50,000 Australians has found 1.1 million fewer glasses of alcoholic beverages are being consumed...

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Mubarak still behind bars after ruling

AN Egyptian court has ordered the release of ousted president Hosni Mubarak over the deaths of protesters but he'll remain in custody over fraud charges, state media report. The Cairo court ordered "the release of former president Hosni Mubarak,...

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Most support coalition on super: Newspoll

DESPITE Labor introducing Australia's modern superannuation system, most people do not trust party on the issue and are opposed to any tax increases after the federal government's pre-budget announcement of cuts to retirement concessions for the...

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Labor support lowest since May 2012: poll

AN historic partnership agreement with China and a $2 million strategy to tax high-end super has not helped the popularity of the federal government, which has returned its worst poll result since before the carbon tax was introduced. The latest...

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US senator slams Beyonce, Jay-Z Cuba trip

US Senator Marco Rubio has railed against the recent trip to Cuba by pop diva Beyonce and hip-hop star Jay-Z, calling for stricter rules against travel to the communist-run island. "I won't rap it, but I'll say, first of all, I think Jay-Z needs...

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Rubio vows 10-year path to US citizenship

SENATOR Marco Rubio, the Republican point man for immigration reform, says a new bill will carve an arduous 10-year path to citizenship for the country's 11 million illegal immigrants. Appearing on a string of Sunday talk shows, Rubio appeared...

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Kerry hails Japan Pacific trade pact moves

US Secretary of State John Kerry has welcomed moves to admit Japan into a Pacific trade agreement, and says China's three-nation trade pact could act as a complement to the treaty. After talks in Tokyo with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida...

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Man in court for posting Jesse Ryder video

A 28-YEAR-OLD man is due to appear in a New Zealand court after allegedly posting footage on the internet of two men charged with assaulting cricketer Jesse Ryder. Ryder was critically injured when he was assaulted outside a bar in Christchurch...

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