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Breaking News Sat, 31 Jul 2010
Rangers coach Walter Smith
Athens   League   Photos   Soccer   Wikipedia: Walter Smith (footballer)  
 Orange News 
Smith Ready For European Games
| Walter Smith believes his players can make a decent fist of their forthcoming Champions League campaign despite losing 1-0 to AEK Athens in the last game of the Sydney Festival of Football tournamen... (photo: AP / Paul Thomas)
** FILE ** In this Feb. 7, 2009 file photo, a fire truck moves away from out of control flames from a bushfire in the Bunyip Sate Forest near the township of Tonimbuk, 125 kilometers (78 miles) west of Melbourne, Australia.
Australia   Disaster   Photos   Wikipedia: Bushfires in Victoria   Wildfire  
 BBC News 
Australia awaits 2009 Victoria bushfire verdict
A report into Australia's worst bushfire disaster is to be made public. | One hundred and seventy three people died and hundreds of homes were destroyed when fires tore across the state of Victoria in... (photo: AP / FILE)
England's Steve Harmison bowls in the nets at the team's training at the Basin Reserve, Wellington, New Zealand, Tuesday, March 11, 2008. England meets New Zealand in the second test in Wellington on Thursday.  The Independent 
Steve Harmison: 'If I don't play for England again I've got the memories'
| For the first time in years, a home Test series is in progress with a fit Steve Harmison not only not participating, but with nobody pressing his claims. | He's been on fire for Durham, yet England ... (photo: AP / NZPA, Ross Setford)
Cricket   England   Photos   Sports   Wikipedia :Steve Harmison  
House  The Australian 
House-price growth across the nation hits a wall
| HOUSE-PRICE growth has come to a halt, with capital-city residential prices flatlining in the June quarter. | Melbourne, which had been the country's hottest housing market, finally stalled with pri... (photo: Creative Commons / Royalbroil)
Economy   Housing   Market   Photos   Wikipedia: Real estate economics  
Top Stories
Tibetan momo in soup, Dharamshala, India The Daily Telegraph Australia
Foetal attraction to this cult soup
| IT'S the birth of a new Sydney culinary craze and, fittingly, it involves an embryo - a chicken embryo, to be precise. | The unusual ingredient, an egg pulled from... (photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang)
Food   Health   Photos   Soup   Wikipedia:Soup  
Stones with the word "hero" written on them lay on grave stones in Section 60, where many soldiers from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are buried, Thursday,July 29, 2010, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. The Australian
Thousands of errors unearthed at Arlington
| THE debacle at the Arlington National Cemetery on the edge of Washington is much worse than first thought, with thousands of graves estimated to be unmarked or wrongly ... (photo: AP / Jacquelyn Martin)
Military   Photos   Society   US   Wikipedia: Arlington National Cemetery mismanagement controversy  
With a poster of soldiers in the background, Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen, center, U.N. Resident Coordinator Douglas Broderick, left, and Tea Banh, right, Cambodian defense minister, pose during a U.S.-backed peacekeeping exercise dubbed "Angkor Sentinel 2010" at the Cambodian tank command headquarters in Kampong Speu province, 65 kilometers (42 miles) west of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Saturday, July 17, 2010. Asia Times
US and Cambodia in controversial lockstep
|      Jul 31, 2010 US and Cambodia in controversial lockstep | By Clifford McCoy | BANGKOK - Cambodia's first-ever multinational military exercise is... (photo: AP / Heng Sinith)
Asia   Cambodia   Defence   Photos   US  
In this July 7, 2008 photo, an investor looks at a stock price board at a private securities' company in Shanghai, China. Chinese shares fell sharply Friday, Aug. 8, 2008, on heavy selling of airlines and other market heavyweights, as investors and analysts puzzled over why expectations of a rally linked to the Beijing Olympic games never materialized. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index sank 4.5 percent, or 122.81 points, to 2,605.16. The Shenzhen Composite Index of China's smaller, second market dropped 5.6 percent to 74 Asia Times
Asia nudges ahead
|      Jul 31, 2010 MARKET RAP | Asia nudges ahead | By R M Cutler | MONTREAL - Overall, Asia looks like having some rough going, at least for a while... (photo: AP / Eugene Hoshiko, FILE)
Asia   Economy   Finance   Markets   Photos  
Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara bats during the fourth one day international cricket match between India and Sri Lanka in Calcutta, India, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2009. The Telegraph India
Should’ve got 750: Kumar
Though they failed to beat India, in the second Test, in Colombo, Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara said that he was quite satisfied with the performance of his bowlers.... (photo: AP / Bikas Das)
Colombo   India   Photos   Sport   Wikipedia: Kumar Sangakkara  
Morris Iemma (sl1) The Australian
Morris Iemma's private battle
| IT was 3am on a Wednesday morning in May last year and Morris Iemma was lying on a gurney in a resuscitation bay at St George Hospital, in south Sydney. The former NSW ... (photo: Creative Commons)
Body   Health   Hospital   Iemma   Photos  
England's Eoin Morgan, right, and Paul Collingwood leave the field at the end of the first day of the first cricket test match against Pakistan at the Trent Bridge cricket ground, Nottingham, England, Thursday July 29, 2010. London Evening Standard
England suffer blow as Paul Collingwood and Eoin Morgan fall
Paul Collingwood missed out on his 11th Test match hundred today as Pakistan also picked up the wicket of centurion Eoin Morgan. | Collingwood had added only one to his o... (photo: AP / Tom Hevezi)
Cricket   England   Pakistan   Photos   Wikipedia: Paul Collingwood  
Katy Perry singing 2, by medigirol London Evening Standard
Katy Perry: My parents didn't want me to turn out like a prostitute
Katy Perry says her parents were strict with her because they didn't want her to "turn out like a prostitute". | The pop star has always enjoyed rebelling against her Chr... (photo: Creative Commons / Matt DiGirolamo)
Celebrity   Entertainment   Hollywood   Photos   Singer  
Politics & Government Business & Economy
- Sir Richard Branson advocates big Australia
- Branson: Embrace big Australia
- The Rudd we never really knew
- Elect to dream or just scream
With a poster of soldiers in the background, Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen, center, U.N. Resident Coordinator Douglas Broderick, left, and Tea Banh, right, Cambodian defense minister, pose during a U.S.-backed peacekeeping exercise dubbed "Angkor Sentinel 2010" at the Cambodian tank command headquarters in Kampong Speu province, 65 kilometers (42 miles) west of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Saturday, July 17, 2010.
US and Cambodia in controversial lockstep
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- Tropical storm over Fiji villas
- Sir Richard Branson advocates big Australia
- China setting milestone as economy passes Japan's
- China setting milestone as economy passes Japan's
In this July 7, 2008 photo, an investor looks at a stock price board at a private securities' company in Shanghai, China. Chinese shares fell sharply Friday, Aug. 8, 2008, on heavy selling of airlines and other market heavyweights, as investors and analysts puzzled over why expectations of a rally linked to the Beijing Olympic games never materialized. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index sank 4.5 percent, or 122.81 points, to 2,605.16. The Shenzhen Composite Index of China's smaller, second market dropped 5.6 percent to 74
Asia nudges ahead
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Science Education
- Tropical storm over Fiji villas
- Creationists hijack lessons and teach schoolkids man and din
- China Setting Milestone as Economy Passes Japan's
- Is 'social engineering' better than software skills
New Zealand dollar
MARKET CLOSE: NZ stocks rise on weaker dollar
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- School-building value found in narrow scope
- School maintenance canned so Kristina Keneally can pay for h
- Repairs go to fix heaters as our schools are left to rot
- Private schools look less appealing with change in universit
INDIA-FORMER-AUSTRALIAN-CRICKTER-STEVE-WAUGH
Waugh in India, tries to hardsell Oz education
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Sport Health
- Vettel storms to fourth successive pole position
- Games: Jabs and door knobs all part of the Games
- NRL: Little Grub an inspiration
- League: Kiwi talent makes its presence felt
Rangers coach Walter Smith
Smith Ready For European Games
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- Fit, fab & 40
- The Rudd we never really knew
- Leaking Labor's ship is sinking fast
- All Blacks emphatic in Wallabies win
Morris Iemma (sl1)
Morris Iemma's private battle
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