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Plane crash probe looking for cause
The French agency probing the crash of Air France flight 447 said Thursday it had yet to find conclusive evidence pointing to faulty airspeed monitors as the cause of the disaster.
June 12, 2009, 10:00 am-
Court rejects Conrad Black bail request
The Supreme Court has turned down former media executive Conrad Black's request to be released from a US prison.
June 12, 2009, 10:00 am -
US Senate votes for tough tobacco laws
The US Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly voted to give the government unprecedented powers over cigarette makers, overturning decades of resistance by the powerful tobacco industry.
June 12, 2009, 10:00 am -
Dokic jailed for threatening ambassador
The estranged father of tennis comeback queen Jelena Dokic has been jailed for 15 months in Serbia after threatening to blow up Australia's ambassador to Belgrade.
June 12, 2009, 10:00 am -
WHO declares flu pandemic
The swine flu crisis has escalated into the world's first influenza pandemic in 40 years, the World Health Organisation has declared, after infecting tens of thousands of people in 74 countries.
June 12, 2009, 10:00 am -
US looks for ways to support Zimbabwe
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has told Zimbabwean prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai the United States is looking for ways to "appropriately" back his tense unity government.
June 12, 2009, 10:00 am -
Bain 111 call claim: 'I shot the prick'
The Supreme Court has lifted a suppression on part of the 111 emergency call David Bain made in 1994 after five members of his family were killed.
June 11, 2009, 6:42 pm -
Sub helps in hunt for Air France black boxes
The urgent hunt for the black boxes of Air France Flight 447 have received a boost — a French nuclear submarine has scoured the search area, listening for the data and voice recorders' pings before they fade away.
June 11, 2009, 5:45 pm -
Watson family seek US trial and Qld court appeal
The distraught family of Tina Watson, who died while scuba diving on her honeymoon off Queensland, will now seek justice in the US after her husband was jailed for just 12 months for her manslaughter.
June 11, 2009, 4:15 pm -
We're not celebrating yet: Papua Five
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June 11, 2009, 2:15 pm -
Indian colleges ban jeans to 'protect' girls
Colleges in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh said overnight that female students would be banned from wearing jeans and other Western clothes to halt sexual harassment by male classmates.
June 11, 2009, 12:00 pm -
White supremacist opens fire on Holocaust museum
A lone gunman said to have links to white supremacist groups has opened fire inside the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, fatally wounding a security guard before being shot himself.
June 11, 2009, 11:15 am -
Nine dead in Pakistan hotel blast
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June 11, 2009, 10:45 am -
Sub begins search for jet's black boxes
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June 11, 2009, 10:30 am -
London gripped by Tube strike chaos
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June 11, 2009, 10:30 am -
Earth could collide with Venus or Mars: astronomers
A force known as orbital chaos may cause our solar system to go haywire, leading to a possible collision between earth and Venus or Mars, according to a study released overnight.
June 11, 2009, 10:00 am -
Airlines replace monitors after Air France crash
Airlines have moved quickly to replace speed monitors like those suspected of feeding false data to computers on Air France Flight 447 and leading the plane to break up over the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 people aboard.
June 10, 2009, 5:45 pm -
No Aussies hurt in hotel blast
No Australians appear to have been injured in a suicide bomb blastat a luxury hotel in Pakistan, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith says.
June 10, 2009, 5:00 pm -
Tiny country says yes to Gitmo detainees
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June 10, 2009, 3:45 pm -
Fisherman nets live guided missile
Instead of what he thought was a very large fish, a Florida fisherman netted a live and very unstable air-to-air guided missile that was floating in the Gulf of Mexico, police said overnight.
June 10, 2009, 1:30 pm
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