US woman gets 'custody' of her embryos

A US judge has awarded custody of frozen embryos to a 42-year-old Chicago woman. Source: AAP A US judge has awarded custody of frozen embryos to a 42-year-old Chicago woman over the objections of her ex-boyfriend who said it violates his right...

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Blazes lit in Melbourne's botanic gardens

A 100-YEAR-OLD pavilion was damaged and two others destroyed by an arsonist in Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens. Firefighters were called to a large blaze in the gardens just before 6am on Saturday and arrived to find two more fires burning....

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Police hunt two sex predators in Melbourne

A man has tried to sexually assault a woman in the inner Melbourne suburb of Brunswick. Source: AAP THE hunt is on for two sex predators who attacked three women in the same Melbourne suburb where Jill Meagher died. Police say an assault...

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Newman rallies states on income tax reform

Campbell Newman wants the federal government to return part of the income tax paid by Australians. Source: AAP THE Abbott government will "hang" the states and territories unless they demand a slice of income tax to cope with budget cuts, the...

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Truck driver guilty of fatal NSW crash

A DRUG-AFFECTED and sleep-deprived truck driver who crashed his vehicle head-on with a car, killing three people, has been found guilty of manslaughter. Vincent Samuel George's B-double veered across the Hume Highway, near Menangle in Sydney's...

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Food maker accepts $1.37b in takeover bid

ONE of Australia's largest food companies Goodman Fielder has accepted a sweetened $1.37 billion dollar takeover offer from two Asian firms. Sydney-based Goodman Fielder, which makes and sells bread, biscuits, sauces, spreads and oils, had been...

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RBA confirms relaxed view on house prices

YOU might disagree with the RBA about the state of the housing market, but you sure can't accuse them of ignoring it. And the central bank is sticking with its view that we aren't in the midst of an inflating housing market bubble. The RBA's...

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Govt cuts big on social studies fees

SOCIAL studies students will be the biggest losers once the government cuts its contribution to course costs. Details of the new Commonwealth contributions, to apply from 2016, show government funding for social studies will drop by more than...

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Engaged dads improve children's wellbeing

SYDNEY, May 15 AAP - Children who have positive relationships with their dads interact better with peers, have better developed social skills and cope with distress, research shows. KidsMatter, a mental health and wellbeing initiative in early childhood...

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Child labour on US tobacco at risk: report

Human Rights Watch says children as young as seven are working long hours in US tobacco fields. Source: AAP YOU may have to be at least 18 to buy cigarettes in the US, but children as young as seven are working long hours in fields harvesting...

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Ten angered Stokes by poaching executive

NETWORK Ten chief executive Hamish McLennan infuriated billionaire Kerry Stokes by poaching one of his top Seven Network executives, who was recovering from a major operation at the time. Highly respected programmer John Stephens, 67, signed a...

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Xie emotional as Lin friend speaks

A FORMER employee of murdered Sydney newsagent Min Lin said that after his death there had been family tension over who would run the business. Min Lin, 45 and his wife Lily, 44, her sister Irene, 39, and their two sons Henry, 12 and Terry, nine,...

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Henry Lin spoke online before death: court

A court has heard how the case against accused murderer "Robert" Xie has been driven by a criminal. Source: AAP IN the hours before schoolboy Henry Lin was brutally murdered in his Sydney home, he was chatting online to a friend about badminton,...

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New pensioners squeezed in NT budget

MEANS-TESTING retirees will drive families out of the Northern Territory, the Labor opposition says. The 2014/15 budget, unveiled on Tuesday, provides $27.9 million in funding for seniors, carers, pensioners and veterans, with concessions for...

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NSK Australia cops $3m price fixing fine

BEARINGS distributor NSK Australia has been hit with a $3 million fine for price fixing after three Japanese executives operated a cartel for more than 10 years. Senior Japanese executives from NSK and two other bearings companies, Nachi Australia...

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New twist in Thailand's battle for power

THE battle for who holds Thailand's seat of power has taken on a new twist as the leader of anti-government protests planned to set up his office at the vacated Government House while the country's new caretaker leader worked from a makeshift, suburban...

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Housing prices continue to stall

HOUSING prices fell in all but one of the mainland state capitals last week. The exception was Adelaide, where prices compiled by RP Data from auction results showed no change. Elsewhere, price falls ranged from 0.3 per cent in Sydney to 0.7...

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Get used to slower growth, Xi tells China

CHINA'S president has told the country to get used to slower growth, damping expectations of a new stimulus. President Xi Jinping's weekend comments come amid weakening trade and manufacturing. Economic growth slowed in the latest quarter to...

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Qld police name pair in abduction case

POLICE have publicly named two people they want to question in relation to the abduction of a two-year-old girl from her father's house southwest of Brisbane. Bella Rose Goulding was taken from a house at Willowbank, near Ipswich, on Saturday...

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Hospitals to suffer under GP co-payment

HOSPITAL emergency wards would be inundated with extra patients under a GP co-payment system being considered by the Abbott government. A survey, conducted just days ahead of the Tuesday's budget, has found that most Australians oppose paying...

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Charges to be laid against dog owner

THE owner of a Staffordshire terrier will face charges after his dog attacked a father and son as they walked their muzzled greyhounds in a southwest Sydney park, police say. Police have spoken to the 57-year-old Macquarie Fields resident and...

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