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Breaking News Fri, 10 Oct 2008
Climate Change - Sunlight - Sun - Global Warming - Weather - Clouds - Sky
Bangladesh   Climate   Disaster   Photos   Warming  
 Canberra Times 
Climate change ground zero
| Nasir Ahmed is terrified of the full moon. In the dead of night three weeks ago it induced an unprecedented tidal surge that inundated his coastal village on the island of Bhola, in southern Banglad... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
A woman talking a cell phone walks past the Reserve Bank Of Australia in Sydney, Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. The Australian share market plunged more than 5 percent in opening trading after another decline on Wall S
Banking   Economy   Finance   Market   Photos  
 The Australian 
Crisis needs a global solution
| KEVIN Rudd keeps saying that Australian banks are strong, well capitalised and well regulated. And he's absolutely right. They are. It's just that even impeccable logic isn't quite so reassuring whe... (photo: AP / Rick Rycroft)
 Mike Hussey   The Times 
Michael Hussey steers Australia into strong position
| Michael Hussey struck his ninth Test century to steer Australia into a strong position as they were all out for 430 against India on the second day of the first Test in Bangalore. | Hussey, whose in... (photo: AP / Gautam Singh)
Australia   Cricket   India   Photos   Sports  
Investors look at the share index at a private stock market gallery in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, Oct. 10, 2008.  Independent online 
Panic selling sends markets into freefall
| A massive sell-off on Wall Street and an escalating global equity crisis sent Asian stocks plunging on Friday morning, with Japan's benchmark index in the midst of a gut-wrenching freefall. | Thursd... (photo: AP / Lai Seng Sin)
Asia   Equity   Japan   Markets   Photos  
Top Stories
Australias Mark Viduka who plays for New Castle United is stretches between training sessions, Tuesday June 26, 2007 in Singapore. Viduka is in the city-state with the Qantas Socceroos for a 2-week training camp ahead of the AFC Cup Finals.(AP Photo/Wong Sporting Life
Viduka Worry For Newcastle
| By James Dall | Newcastle interim manager Joe Kinnear has revealed Mark Viduka could be forced to undergo a second operation on his troublesome Achilles injury. | The A... (photo: AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
Australia   Football   League   Photos   Stars  
 oil - depot - oil - gas - crude - diesel - energy - factory - wnhires jd1 Houston Chronicle
Oil plummets below $83 on global slowdown fears
| SINGAPORE - Oil prices plummeted to a one-year low below $83 a barrel Friday in Asia as investor fears of a severe global economic downturn sparked a panicked sell-off ... (photo: WN / james)
Asia   Investors   Market   Oil   Photos  
Aussie Dollar - AUD - Australian Dollar - Currency - Money. (ps1) The Times of India
Australian dollar near multi-yr lows in fear-driven market
|               Text: SYDNEY: The Australian dollar dropped back towards multi-year lows on Friday, posting its biggest weekly dec... (photo: WN / patricia)
Aussie   Dollar   Economy   Markets   Photos  
Stock watchers reflect on the fluctuating prices on the Australian Stock Market in Sydney, Friday, October 24, 1997. The Australian market had fallen 3.2% by mid day, taking the lead of other internaional markets' plunging prices from Thursda The Australian
Dollar closes down, at US66c
| The Australian dollar closed 3.3 US cents lower as continued fears about a global recession had investors dumping riskier assets such as shares and high-yielding curren... (photo: AP / Rick Rycroft)
Aussie   Dollar   Economy   Photos   Stock  
Child - Kid - Health - Philippines The Australian
Kids' life expectancy to drop
| LIFE expectancy for today's children will drop by two years if Australia's obesity epidemic goes unchecked, the nation's preventative health taskforce warns in its inau... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
Children   Health   Kids   Obesity   Photos  
 Pediatric polysomnogram/aaeh The Australian
Wires left in children after surgery
| AS many as 200 children could have pieces of wire lodged near their hearts after a failure with surgical equipment, Queensland health authorities say. | Queensland Heal... (photo: creative commons)
Children   Health   Hospital   Photos   Surgery  
Sugarcane Agriculture Farm Crop.(ai1) Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Young cane farmer wins scholarship
A young sugar cane farmer from the New South Wales north coast has taken out this year's Bill Ussher Agricultural Scholarship. | The scholarship is in memory of the late ... (photo: WN / ady)
Agriculture   Australia   Industry   Photos   Travel  
Indian cricketer and captain of Indian Premier League's (IPL) Royal Challengers, Rahul Dravid looks on during team's unveiling ceremony in Bangalore, India, Wednesday, March 12, 2008. IPL's Twenty20 cricket tournament is scheduled to start on April 18. Dawn
T20 pioneer concerned about its effect
| MELBOURNE, Oct 9: The marketing man credited with inventing Twenty20 cricket has some concerns about the super-shortened format’s effect on the sport. | Stuart Robertso... (photo: AP / )
Cricket   England   Melbourne   Photos   Sport  
Politics & Government Business & Economy
- When words are not enough
- Downer avoids traps of his new brief
- Festival time, so even the most ideological give way
- Allies, unless it's the tough stuff and more troops are
A graph is shown on an electric board at the Australian Stock Exchange at Sydney, Australia, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. Concerns about the state of the global economy dominated sentiment despite a coordinated rate cut by top central banks aimed at shoring up confidence in the world's crisis-stricken financial sy
Panic wreaks havoc
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- Crisis needs a global solution
- Panic wreaks havoc
- Global Investors Panic, Stocks Plummet
- No falling-out as Rudd and chief of staff part company
A woman talking a cell phone walks past the Reserve Bank Of Australia in Sydney, Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. The Australian share market plunged more than 5 percent in opening trading after another decline on Wall S
Crisis needs a global solution
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Science Education
- Head in stars, feet on ground
- Scarred in the quest for beauty
- Head in stars, feet on ground
- Twenty20 an invention with appeal, says its founder
 Boerum, Hill, Food, Company, Brooklyn, New York, American, International, Restaurant, Dining, Cuisine, Smith, Street, (LM1)
Food firms pushed to come clean on nano-ingredients
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- Booze ad ban near schools 'won't work'
- Booze ad ban near schools 'won't work'
- Rugby: NZ Schools lose tight match to Australia
- Pregnancy hurts schooling, not brain
RICE - FOOD - COMMODITY  - GRAINS - PHILIPPINES
Symposium on food security from 13th
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Sport Health
- Mr Reliable's ton of reassurance
- Hussey, the code no one can crack
- Bracken the saviour as Blues top order skittled in Perth
- Revealed: Sydney's Open secret
 Zaheer Khan
Zaheer's five-wicket haul fails to stop Australians taking control
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- Head in stars, feet on ground
- Inquiry clears hospital scapegoat
- Doctors warn of beauty laser dangers
- Scarred in the quest for beauty
Child - Kid - Health - Philippines
Kids' life expectancy to drop
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