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  • Australian ex-hostage feared he would die in Somalia

    Australian ex-hostage feared he would die in Somalia

    AFP - Wednesday, December 9

    SYDNEY (AFP) - - Freed hostage Nigel Brennan on Wednesday admitted that he regretted ever visiting Somalia and feared he would never survive his brutal, 15-month ordeal.

  • Ex-Aussie hostage says he aimed to help Somalis

    AP - Wednesday, December 9

    SYDNEY - An Australian photojournalist recently released after being held hostage for 15 months in Somalia said Wednesday he was trying to highlight the plight of those less fortunate when he was kidnapped.

  • Australia accused of censorship over NKorean art

    AP - Wednesday, December 9

    SYDNEY - Australia was accused of censorship Tuesday for denying visas to North Korean artists whose works are on display in a regional exhibition, but the government says the art comes from Pyongyang's propaganda machine and its creators are not welcome.

  • Coroner: Self-help course led to woman's suicide

    AP - Wednesday, December 9

    SYDNEY - An Australian coroner said Tuesday that participation in an intense self-help course led a woman to suffer a psychotic breakdown before she stripped naked and leaped to her death from an office window in front of horrified co-workers.

  • Gambler loses case against Australian casino

    Gambler loses case against Australian casino

    AFP - Tuesday, December 8

    MELBOURNE (AFP) - - A compulsive gambler who wagered close to 1.4 billion US dollars during a 16-month betting spree lost his lawsuit against Australia's largest casino Tuesday when a judge ruled he was not exploited.

  • Anti-Japan whaling protests: govts urge restraint

    Anti-Japan whaling protests: govts urge restraint

    AFP - Monday, December 7

    SYDNEY (AFP) - - Militant protesters opposed to Japanese whaling left for the Southern Ocean Monday as New Zealand, Australia and The Netherlands urged them to avoid violent confrontations.

  • Australia opposition leader enjoys poll boost

    Australia opposition leader enjoys poll boost

    AFP - Monday, December 7

    SYDNEY (AFP) - - Australia's conservative opposition relished a small bounce in opinion polls on Monday after dumping its leader for a maverick right-winger during fierce debate over climate change.

  • Australia steps up wildfire preparedness

    AP - Monday, December 7

    ADELAIDE, Australia - Australians thought they were prepared for wildfires.

  • Australia in $82 bln gas deal with Japan

    Australia in $82 bln gas deal with Japan

    AFP - Monday, December 7

    SYDNEY (AFP) - - Australia has welcomed a 90 billion dollar (82 billion US) deal to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to a Japanese power company in what is believed to be the country's biggest export sales contract.

  • Australian PM warns on climate change

    Australian PM warns on climate change

    AFP - Thursday, December 3

    SYDNEY (AFP) - - Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd warned there was no "magic pudding" solution to climate change on Thursday as he lashed out over the defeat of his flagship carbon-trading scheme.

  • Australian man charged with assaulting US Marine

    AP - Thursday, December 3

    SYDNEY - An Australian man has been charged in an attack on a U.S. Marine on shore leave that left him in a coma for 10 days, police said Thursday.

  • Kangaroos may hold skin cancer cure: study

    Kangaroos may hold skin cancer cure: study

    AFP - Tuesday, December 1

    SYDNEY (AFP) - - Kangaroos may provide the key to a potential treatment to prevent skin cancer, Australian scientists said on Monday.

  • Australia in Afghanistan for long haul: Rudd

    Australia in Afghanistan for long haul: Rudd

    AFP - Tuesday, December 1

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd pledged here Monday that Australia would stay in Afghanistan "for the long haul" but did not offer more troops to complement an expected US increase.

  • Captain Cook: explorer standing the test of time

    Captain Cook: explorer standing the test of time

    AFP - Sunday, November 29

    BONN (AFP) - - On January 11, 1780, the London Gazette reported the death of Captain James Cook, "on the island of O'Why'he ... in an affray with a numerous and tumultuous Body of Natives."

  • Obama set to meet with Australian prime minister

    AP - Saturday, November 28

    WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will meet with the Australian prime minister at the White House on Monday.

  • Australian opposition splits over climate bill

    AP - Friday, November 27

    ADELAIDE, Australia - Australia's opposition party has splintered over a contentious bill aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions, with top officials resigning over the party leader's support for the legislation.

  • Journalists leave Somalia after hostage ordeal

    Journalists leave Somalia after hostage ordeal

    AFP - Friday, November 27

    MOGADISHU (AFP) - - Two journalists from Canada and Australia flew out of Somalia on Thursday at the end of a 15-month hostage ordeal during which they were tortured and shackled in windowless rooms by their captors.

  • Pig farts spark Australia gas scare

    Pig farts spark Australia gas scare

    AFP - Friday, November 27

    SYDNEY (AFP) - - A flatulent pig sparked a gas emergency in southern Australia when a farmer mistook its odours for a leaking pipe, according to officials.

  • Invading camels to be shot in Australian town

    AP - Friday, November 27

    ALICE SPRINGS, Australia - Australian authorities plan to corral about 6,000 wild camels with helicopters and gun them down after they overran a small Outback town in search of water, trampling fences, smashing tanks and contaminating supplies.


  • Invading camels to be shot in Australian town

    AP - Friday, November 27

    ALICE SPRINGS, Australia - Australian authorities plan to corral about 6,000 wild camels with helicopters and gun them down after they overran a small Outback town in search of water, trampling fences, smashing tanks and contaminating supplies.

  • An undated photo released by the Brennan family in 2008 shows Australian freelance photographer Nigel Brennan. Two independent journalists, including Brennan, were freed on Wednesday after 15 months in captivity in Somalia, one of their kidnappers told AFP.

    Canadian journalist says she was tortured in Somalia

    AFP - Thursday, November 26

    OTTAWA (AFP) - - Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout, who was freed Wednesday after 15 months in captivity in Somalia, says she was beaten and tortured by her captors, who she called criminals pretending to be freedom fighters.

  • Thousands of wild camels besiege Australian town

    Thousands of wild camels besiege Australian town

    AFP - Thursday, November 26

    SYDNEY (AFP) - - Some 6,000 feral camels are running wild in a remote Australian outback community in search of water, smashing infrastructure and invading the airstrip, officials said on Wednesday.

  • Venomous Aussie redback spiders invading Japan

    Venomous Aussie redback spiders invading Japan

    AFP - Wednesday, November 25

    TOKYO (AFP) - - Australia's venomous redback spiders are on the march in Japan, where they are believed to have arrived years ago as stowaways on cargo ships, a wildlife expert warned Wednesday.

  • Australian PM urges parliament to approve carbon cuts

    AFP - Wednesday, November 25

    CANBERRA (AFP) - - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd urged parliament Tuesday to approve legislation aiming to slash carbon pollution by up to 25 percent by 2020 ahead of next month's global talks on climate change.

  • 'Amazing' Bangladeshi twins out of intensive care

    'Amazing' Bangladeshi twins out of intensive care

    AFP - Wednesday, November 25

    MELBOURNE (AFP) - - Bangladeshi twins Trishna and Krishna are out of intensive care and seeing each other for the first time as they make an "amazing" recovery from surgery to separate their conjoined heads, doctors said Tuesday.

  • Opposition debate Australian carbon reduction laws

    AP - Tuesday, November 24

    CANBERRA, Australia - Australia's government took a key step toward passing legislation to curb greenhouse gas emissions by negotiating a compromise deal with the opposition Liberal Party, and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd urged lawmakers Tuesday to support the bill.

  • Cuba, Australia boost ties during FM visit

    Cuba, Australia boost ties during FM visit

    AFP - Tuesday, November 24

    HAVANA (AFP) - - Cuba and Australia have decided to strengthen their 20-year relationship, Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith said Monday at the start of a two-day visit to Havana.

  • Formerly conjoined twins leave intensive care

    AP - Tuesday, November 24

    SYDNEY - Conjoined Bangladeshi twins who were separated in a marathon surgery last week left intensive care on Monday and were adjusting well, hospital officials said.

  • Asylum-seekers riot at Australia detention centre

    Asylum-seekers riot at Australia detention centre

    AFP - Monday, November 23

    SYDNEY (AFP) - - Australia moved to tighten security at its main immigration centre on Monday after a riot by 150 asylum-seekers, reportedly wielding pool cues, broomsticks and tree branches, left 37 wounded.

  • Man slashed by kangaroo while trying to rescue dog

    AP - Monday, November 23

    MELBOURNE, Australia - An Australian man was in stable condition Monday after being slashed across the abdomen and face by a kangaroo that was holding his dog underwater.

  • Over 100 icebergs drifting to N.Zealand: official

    Over 100 icebergs drifting to N.Zealand: official

    AFP - Monday, November 23

    SYDNEY (AFP) - - More than 100, and possibly hundreds, of Antarctic icebergs are floating towards New Zealand in a rare event which has prompted a shipping warning, officials said on Monday.

  • Australian blames Scientology for brother's death

    AP - Monday, November 23

    CANBERRA, Australia - A man who blames the Church of Scientology for his brother's suicide added his voice Monday to calls for an Australia Senate inquiry into the religion.

  • US sailor cleared of assaulting Sydney prostitute

    AP - Monday, November 23

    SYDNEY - A U.S. Navy serviceman was found not guilty Monday of sexually assaulting a prostitute at a brothel while on shore leave in Australia's biggest city.

  • Australia battles wildfires as threat eases: officials

    Australia battles wildfires as threat eases: officials

    AFP - Monday, November 23

    RYLSTONE, Australia (AFP) - - Australian firefighters battled to contain scores of blazes in the country's southeast on Monday as a sharp drop in temperatures eased fears for dozens of threatened homes.

  • Dozens of asylum seekers injured in detention riot

    AP - Monday, November 23

    CANBERRA, Australia - Sri Lankan and Afghan asylum seekers were separated at an island immigration detention center after a riot left 37 injured, an official said Monday.

  • Aussie pilot who landed in shark waters hailed a hero

    Aussie pilot who landed in shark waters hailed a hero

    AFP - Friday, November 20

    SYDNEY (AFP) - - An Australian pin-up pilot forced to bring an emergency medical flight down in shark-infested waters was Friday hailed a hero for the daring landing from which all aboard escaped unharmed.

  • Australia 'disappointed' at Japan whaling mission

    Australia 'disappointed' at Japan whaling mission

    AFP - Friday, November 20

    SYDNEY (AFP) - - Australia said it was "deeply disappointed" after a fleet of Japanese whaling ships set out to kill hundreds of the giant ocean mammals on their annual hunt.

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