Top Stories: Melbourne, Dec 14 (DPA) The long-odds dream of Mark Philippoussis to somehow make one last stand in the professional game looks to be all but gone after the 33-year-old failed to sign on for this week's Australian Open wild card play-offs. IANS Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:20:02 -0500Perth, Dec.14 : Key West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul has undergone scans on an injured finger and is in doubt for the third Test against Australia, starting at the WACA Ground on Wednesday. ANI Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:00:14 -0500Melbourne, Dec 14 : Aussie actress Nicole Kidman has been accused by celebrity photographer Jamie Fawcett of playing Machiavellian games after claiming she quit Sydney because of the paparazzi. ANI Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:00:13 -0500Melbourne, Dec 14 : World's largest automaker Toyota has pulled an advertisement that was slammed for being incestuous, degrading and sexist. ANI Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:00:05 -0500Melbourne, Dec 14 : Australian actress Emma Booth says that showing off her assets for Underbelly 3 has left her disgusted. ANI Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:00:03 -0500London, Dec 14 : An Australian doctor has diagnosed the mysterious illness that 19th-century scientist Charles Darwin suffered from, as being "cyclical vomiting syndrome". ANI Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:00:02 -0500Melbourne, Dec 14 : Brit actress Keira Knightley has posed nude for artist Mitch Griffiths. ANI Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:00:10 -0500Perth, Dec 14: Australian fast bowler Stuart Clark reckons that it is very unlikely for him to be selected to play Test cricket for the team again. ANI Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:30:25 -0500Melbourne, Dec 14 : While the female fans of Tiger Woods are angry with the golfer over his alleged steamy affairs, male fans say they won't mind swapping places with the sportsperson. ANI Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:50:37 -0500Perth (Australia), Dec.14 : West Indies captain Chris Gayle has given spinner Nathan Hauritz the ultimate backhander by claiming: "I feel like I'm facing up to myself". ANI Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:50:29 -0500Perth (Australia), Dec.14 : Australian off-spinner Nathan Hauritz says he will use the 'Doosra' during the third Test against the West Indies here, and is confident about bouncing back in Perth after putting in a lacklustre performance in Adelaide last week. ANI Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:50:28 -0500Lahore, Dec. 14 : Former fast fowler Waqar Younis's appointment as the Pakistan team's new fielding and bowling coach for the Australian tour is part of a bigger picture. The Pakistani Cricket Board (PCB) is planning to replace the current coach Intikhab Alam with Younis. ANI Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:50:27 -0500Brisbane (Australia), Dec.14 : Former Australian cricket captain Greg Chappell wants the national team and Cricket Australia to consider a rotation system to reduce the pressure on fast bowlers. ANI Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:50:14 -0500Perth (Australia), Dec.14 : Two days before the third and final Test between Australia and the West Indies, new Windies pace sensation Kemar Roach has warned that he will crack the 155km/h mark in a bid to make Australia's top order "uncomfortable". ANI Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:50:12 -0500Melbourne, Dec 14 : If reports are to be believed, Hollywood actor Orlando Bloom has secretly got engaged to his model girlfriend Miranda Kerr in Morocco. ANI Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:10:01 -0500It's been talked about, and seemingly everyone knows it goes on, but one of the darkest hidden secrets of prison life - sexual assaults behind bars - has finally been measured to some degree, in groun... WA Today Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:44:02 -0500They've long been the ugly duckling alternative for WA home sellers, but recent signs point to auctions becoming a larger part of the property landscape. As the Perth market rises again, agents say t... WA Today Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:43:59 -0500The threat of identity theft similar to the McDonald's card skimming saga that has so far swiped $5 million from WA bank accounts "is very much alive" and could hit shoppers again as early as this Chr... WA Today Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:43:57 -0500The daughter of notorious underworld hitman Victor Peirce has been found dead. Katie Pierce, 22, died in Greensborough overnight from a suspected drug overdose. It is believed in recent times she ha... WA Today Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:43:54 -0500Posted on: Monday, 14 December 2009, 13:34 CST A report released Monday at the UN climate summit showed that climate change threatens the survival of dozens of animal species from the emperor pengu... RedOrbit Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:36:29 -0500Air New Zealand made history in Rotorua over the weekend with the first direct flight landing in the city from Sydney on Saturday afternoon. Prior to the inaugural flight, Air New Zealand celebrate... Travel Blackboard Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:26:16 -0500Police say a man has been attacked during a home invasion at Engadine in southern Sydney. Officers say a 21-year-old confronted three masked men outside the property last night but he was marched bac... ABC Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:20:37 -0500United Water has won an application for an urgent trial in the Supreme Court where it is being sued by SA Water for allegedly mismanaging the state's sewerage system. SA Water claims United Water, wh... ABC News Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:20:28 -0500Mental Health Minister Jane Lomax-Smith says the first of six new community mental health centres is planned at Marion in Adelaide. She says the $34 million plan is out for public consultation. If a... ABC News Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:20:27 -0500A Queensland union leader says he cannot rule out a special conference of the Labor Party to challenge the State Government's planned asset sales. Rail, Tram and Bus Union (RTBU) spokesman Owen Dooga... ABC News Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:20:25 -0500The RAAF base at Amberley, west of Brisbane, will introduce a night-time flying curfew for its Super Hornets. The Defence Personnel Minister, Greg Combet, says the changes follow feedback from local ... ABC News Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:20:24 -0500Mr Cotter says the molasses will be more expensive if the sugar company has to import extra supplies, but it will be needed if good rains do not arrive by February. (ABC TV News - file image)... ABC News Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:20:23 -0500The Queensland Retailers Association (QRA) says it expects spending this Christmas to meet or exceed figures recorded last year. Payments from the Federal Government's first economic stimulus package... ABC News Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:20:21 -0500A MAJOR group of developing nations, including China and most African nations, have walked out of working groups, triggering a major stalemate between developed and developing countries at the Copenha... Stock Journal Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:18:43 -0500The Australian dollar has opened half a cent stronger after positive global economic news helped to restore investor appetite for risk-sensitive currencies. At 0700 AEDT, the Australian dollar was tr... Sydney Morning Herald Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:07:38 -0500The Australian stock market has received a mixed set of leads from Monday night's offshore trading session. While Wall Street was higher in late afternoon trade and metals prices firmer, the price of... Sydney Morning Herald Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:07:35 -0500Police have praised a man for his bravery after he dived into the ocean and pulled a driver from her overturned car in the NSW Central Coast at the weekend. The driver, a 20-year-old woman, was headi... Sydney Morning Herald Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:07:32 -0500Over two years since the incident, detectives are appealing for any witnesses to an alleged sexual assault of a child in Melbourne's southern suburbs. The 12-year-old girl had been walking alone in a... Sydney Morning Herald Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:07:26 -0500A man has had a shotgun pointed at his head during a home invasion in Sydney's south. The 21-year-old man was checking a sound outside his bedroom window in Dunstan Place, Engadine, about 11.30pm (AE... Sydney Morning Herald Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:07:23 -0500A staggering 225 out of the 243 private-plated cars chosen by MPs and Senators have six or eight-cylinder engines, in contrast to the national trend towards smaller, more fuel efficient models.Only a ... News.com.au Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:06:46 -0500If water or detergent was inadvertently spilt on the lids of 11 brands of Simpson and Electrolux machine models, it could cause an electric shock, Fair Trading Minister Virginia Judge has warned."... News.com.au Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:06:44 -0500A WEST Australian man has been charged after allegedly leaving a man who overdosed on heroin in a car to die while he dined with a friend at a Chinese restaurant and socialised at a hotel. News.com.au Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:06:41 -0500Chief Justice Brian Martin sentenced the middle-aged man to five years and six months in prison for four counts of indecently dealing with a child under 16,... News.com.au Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:06:40 -0500POLICE want to recognise the bravery of a young man who rescued a woman from a car that was upside-down in seawater - but they don't know who he is. News.com.au Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:06:35 -0500.Workers plan to erect the barriers in four community graveyards and in two nearby outstations.Central Desert Shire Council services manager Eve Grant said there were quite a few dogs in the Ti Tree a... News.com.au Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:06:34 -0500KEVIN Rudd has refused to directly address Tony Abbott's claim that Labor's proposed carbon emissions trading system will cost average Australian families $1100 a year. The Australian Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:05:53 -0500He said the pair had been drinking and returned to the hotel for more alcohol before socialising with two female staff from the hotel. The two girls went up to the pair's rooms, where they drank more ... The Australian Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:05:49 -0500THE makers of Rabbit-Proof Fence have rejected claims by historian Keith Windschuttle that the film lies about a government policy to "breed out" Aboriginality in the 1930s. The Australian Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:05:44 -0500Tables will be adorned with cheap, fresh seafood this Christmas as prices for lobsters and prawns hit rock bottom because of over-supply in the local market.But while consumers are happy with falling ... The West Australian Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:59:35 -0500The private details of every Australian will be held on a giant national database under a Federal Government plan for "virtual" national identity cards designed to crack down on welfare and medical fr... The West Australian Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:59:31 -0500Australian stocks are set to open slightly higher after Abu Dhabi's $10 billion lifeline to Dubai World to avoid a debt default refreshes investors' appetite for... Yahoo!7 News Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:58:44 -0500Small waves of around one metre have forced organisers to call a second straight lay day in final event in the world championship surfing season, the Pipeline Masters. "We're expecting a swell to bui... ABC Sports Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:58:15 -0500Australian paceman Peter Siddle and all-rounder Shane Watson will today need to prove their fitness to play in tomorrow's third Test against the West Indies at the WACA ground. Watson has barely trai... ABC Sports Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:58:14 -0500Tiger Woods has won much-needed backing from the head of key sponsor Nike, while another of the troubled star's alleged mistresses apologised to his wife Elin for the pain she has caused. Woods, a sq... ABC Sports Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:58:06 -0500The former world No.8 on Friday declared her "long service leave" officially over and said she felt fresh and fit.Molik retired in 2008 after a run of serious illness and injury but after announcing a... SBS Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:34:35 -0500Last Updated: December 14. 2009 8:19PM UAE / December 14. 2009 4:19PM GMT Australia have drafted in extra bowling cover ahead of the third and final Test against the West Indies in Perth.With paceman ... The National Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:50:08 -0500Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says the Prime Minister is politicising religion amid speculation Mary MacKillop's sainthood is imminent. The speculation over her possible canonisation intensif... ABC Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:29:18 -0500The ACT Government will trial the new national telephone bushfire warning system on Thursday. Phone and text messages will be sent to people who live in Turner, O'Connor, Lyneham, Hall and Hume. Eme... ABC News Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:29:18 -0500Developing nations have staged a two-hour walkout at the Copenhagen climate talks, accusing the developed world, led by the European Union, Australia and Japan, of pushing to "kill the Kyoto Protocol"... ABC Australia Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:29:16 -0500The recycling service at the Mugga Lane tip will be up and running again within weeks. The recycling centre closed down in July, when owners Aussie Junk went into liquidation. But now Canberra busin... ABC News Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:29:13 -0500Every year more than 100,000 new cases of cancer are diagnosed across Australia. But hopes for cures and improved treatments for cancer are one step closer, with the Victorian Cancer Council announci... ABC News Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:29:13 -0500The Federal Opposition is calling on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to act on whaling as he makes his way to Japan en route to the Copenhagen summit. Despite a change of government, Japan has confirmed it... ABC News Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:29:11 -0500The Property Council says the Government has improved its record on land supply. The Government met with building and property industry groups yesterday. It recently created a new department focusse... ABC News Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:29:10 -0500Home and Away star Todd Lasance has been charged with possessing cocaine. The 24-year-old actor, who recently announced he was quitting Seven's long-running soapie, was arrested in Sydney's Kings Cro... ABC News Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:29:09 -0500The Sea Shepherd anti-whaling group says it can not make a third attempt to leave Hobart for the Southern Ocean until it gets clearance from New Zealand authorities. The New Zealand-flagged Ady Gil h... ABC News Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:29:08 -0500Mr Hinchliffe says the study shows the snail population near the dam is not critical to the long-term survival of the species. (ABC TV News - file image)... ABC News Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:29:03 -0500Firefighters estimate a factory fire in Brisbane's south-west has caused about $3 million damage. About 45 firefighters battled the blaze in a foam construction company at Darra. It does not appear ... ABC News Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:29:02 -0500A ratepayers' association say its members will keep fighting to save the Saint Clair reserve at Woodville despite Charles Sturt Council changing its zoning. About 100 protesters were at the council m... ABC News Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:29:00 -0500Shrink SYDNEY - Hugely successful New Zealand sailor Neville Crichton rates the fleet for this year's Sydney to Hobart as the strongest he has ever been part of in any event over several decades of t... New Zealand Herald Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:27:53 -0500A NATIONAL glut has slashed grape prices for the 2010 vintage, making a greater number of vineyards uneconomic and potentially pushing some to the wall.Buyers acting for Foster's will begin talks toda... Stock Journal Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:27:27 -0500ELEVEN members of the US Congress have written to the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, urging him to fulfil an election promise to ban imports of illegally logged timber.The Congress members - 10 Democrats... Stock Journal Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:27:25 -0500SYDNEY — How can a company give away millions of products, help poor people, address climate change and turn a profit? A boutique energy company run by the unlikely partnership of an Anglican pr... International Herald Tribune Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:16:33 -0500Ratings agency Moody's Investors Service says Woodside Petroleum's $2.5 billion capital raising could lead to an improvement in the energy company's rating. Moody's said overnight that it would discu... Sydney Morning Herald Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:15:17 -0500Paceman Brett Geeves is talking down the chances of making his Test debut against the West Indies on Wednesday, after being called up as cover for Peter Siddle. Geeves said he expected selectors to o... Sydney Morning Herald Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:15:11 -0500Tens of thousands of washing machines sold in Australia are being recalled amid fears they could cause an electric shock. If water or detergent was inadvertently spilt on the lids of 11 brands of Sim... Sydney Morning Herald Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:15:08 -0500Tropical Cyclone Laurence is edging closer to the north Kimberley coast, and is expected to make landfall in the region by Wednesday afternoon. The category one storm, which formed in the Timor Sea o... Sydney Morning Herald Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:15:06 -0500After a month of dramatic ructions within the NSW Labor Party, the state government has taken a beating in the latest opinion poll. The Newspoll, published in The Australian newspaper on Tuesday, sho... Sydney Morning Herald Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:15:04 -0500YOUNG Australian backpackers are becoming self-employed drug runners, lured to the high-risk crime by the lucrative profits to be made at home. News.com.au Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:14:24 -0500The man was with seven other Japanese tourists, all believed to be in their 20s, when their four-wheel drive vehicle rolled on a beach Sunday on Fraser Island about 300 km from Brisbane. Takeshi Sakai... Japan Times Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:10:45 -0500The private details of every Australian will be held on a giant national database under a Federal Government plan for "virtual" national identity cards designed to crack down on welfare and medical fr... The West Australian Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:06:51 -0500Dinara Safina has been forced to withdraw from the Brisbane International, one of the major lead-up events to the Australian Open, due to a back injury.Brisbane organisers have announced the Russian w... Sportal Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:43:41 -0500(RTTNews) - Modest gains are expected at the opening of the New Zealand and Australia sharemarkets on Tuesday. Traders get a positive lead from Wall Street, which spent the day in higher territory on... Quote.com Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:40:26 -0500Posted on: Monday, 14 December 2009, 10:29 CST Australian health officials have created an original way to remind beachgoers to re-apply their sunscreen.The Cancer Council of New South Wales on Sun... RedOrbit Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:02:45 -0500SYDNEY — How can a company give away millions of products, help poor people, address climate change and turn a profit? A boutique energy company run by the unlikely partnership of an Anglican pr... International Herald Tribune Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:01:27 -0500Sexual assaults against men in WA's overcrowded jails are being significantly under-reported, according to a ground-breaking study which has found that predators are being protected by a code of silen... The West Australian Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:51:31 -0500Sydney underworld identity Tom Domican and senior Coffin Cheaters bikie Howard Wignall were allegedly used by property developer Warren Anderson to intimidate Firepower chief Tim Johnston and force hi... The West Australian Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:51:27 -0500In separate incidents on Friday night, an allegedly drunk police sergeant was hit with a move-on notice after refusing to leave a Northbridge bar and another officer was charged with drink driving aft... The West Australian Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:51:24 -0500Nairobi — An Australian company is set to take over a uranium exploration firm in Tanzania. Austral Africa Resources has entered into a "binding terms sheet" with Tanganyika Uranium Corp. It hop... All Africa Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:50:30 -0500(Click to Enlarge) Bengal has signed an agreement to acquire a 100% working interest in a 654,000 acre exploration block in Australia's Cooper Basin. The acquisition is subject to the grant of an Auth... Rigzone Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:57:19 -0500Residents in bushfire-prone areas in the Australian state of Victoria are being urged to put their survival plans in place, with much of the state facing a severe fire risk tomorrow. Country Fire Aut... New Zealand Herald Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:40:22 -0500MELBOURNE - Qantas Airways jumped the most in about two weeks in Sydney trading after raising international fares across its network for the first time in almost 18 months on rising travel demand. Au... New Zealand Herald Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:40:02 -0500Great Barrier Reef island caretaker Ben Southall is leaving the Best Job in the World, possibly for a better one, as he prepares to jet set around the world as a Tourism Queensland salesman. News.com.au Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:27:40 -0500TROPICAL Cyclone Laurence is edging closer to the north Kimberley coast, and is expected to make landfall in the region by Wednesday afternoon. News.com.au Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:27:38 -0500Just more than a quarter of voters continue to support the NSW Labor Government, according to the latest Newspoll, which was conducted exclusively for... News.com.au Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:27:36 -0500YOUNG Australian backpackers are becoming self-employed drug runners, lured to the high-risk crime by the lucrative profits to be made at home. News.com.au Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:27:33 -0500YOUNG Australian backpackers are becoming self-employed drug runners, lured to the high-risk crime by the lucrative profits to be made at home. The Daily Telegraph Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:27:12 -0500/PRNewswire/ -- Sigma Pharmaceuticals Ltd. and Neurim Pharmaceuticals Ltd. announce Licensing Agreement for Circadin(R) - prolonged release melatonin for primary insomnia in... RedOrbit Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:14:11 -0500The Federal Government is asking people to share their views on whether an R18+ classification for computer games should be introduced. Home Affairs Minister Brendan O'Connor said businesses and adul... ABC News Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:58:34 -0500A visit by the Prime Minister to a Canberra school today has highlighted the strict food bans now in place at many primary schools. Kevin Rudd attended the O'Connor Cooperative School to hear student... ABC News Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:58:29 -0500Glamorgan have confirmed the signing of Australia fast bowler Shaun Tait for their Twenty20 campaign next season.The 26-year-old, one of the stars of the 2007 World Cup, is Glamorgan's second overseas... BBC Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:49:08 -0500Video settings ANGUS McKenzie rolled out of bed with two things on his mind. First he grabbed his mobile phone and opened the text message that revealed his long-awaited VCE results. Then he padded t... Sydney Morning Herald Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:45:10 -0500IF GRAHAM RICHARDSON was irritated and cranky at having to reappear at a parliamentary inquiry yesterday, it seems that his legendary bonhomie was in even shorter supply in March when he met standover... Sydney Morning Herald Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:45:06 -0500Ms Keneally and Mr Groves yesterday. THE State Government is preparing to cut off water supplies from the Lachlan River to the Central West town of Lake Cargelligo as it moves to protect supplies to... Sydney Morning Herald Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:45:04 -0500 | 
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